Homemade Mink/Marten Box
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- These are a pretty cheap wooden cubby box that easily fits a Belisle 160 and might even work with a 220. You could make them shorter if you preferred and may even get an extra box or two out of a sheet of plywood. Made 9 of these box from a single 4x8 sheet of 1/2" plywood that i had left over from a project. You could also step it up and use 3/4" plywood would be much more durable if you are leaving them out in the bush. 1x wood would be much better then plywood!!
Total cost was around $35 for the plywood, screws, and glue.
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Nice job brother!
Thanks Justin!!
we just did the 40 question challenge and shed tour and gave you a shout out on the box design and built ours after watching how you built yours.
Hey i appreciate that. Sorry for the slow response!
@@AdamCraigOutdoors the boxes work great . no worries ,i know how it is to go back and find comments . a lot of the time we don't get notified.
hey thanks for this video! gonna make some this week. will be making them a touch bigger for my 220's-thank you!!!
I don't have any 220's to try but i don't think they would fit or they would be right at the very opening.
Looks good buddy Migwech
Thanks Kirk. I wasn't successful in getting your old line.
Nice looking boxes Adam!
Thanks Mr. Todd.
Nice job on the boxes!
thank you sir. a good project to do with the little guy and quick to make up.
Thanks for watching!!
I got tired of building, setting out, gathering back in , and storing Marten boxes. They cost some to build as well. I went to cardboard instead with good luck. (I have a video on it) I'm using the this stuff boxes of beer are made from. The cardboard lasts through the season just fine, and best of all, I can put a dozen or more along with the traps in a backpack. If you have a trapline you use year after year and don't have to bring the boxes back and forth, wood boxes would be better. I don't always trap the same areas, so the cardboard works better for me.
Strange. It makes you wonder sometimes who thinks up the rules and why.
Yeah, if you can leave them they are great!
Good Job Adam!!
thank you sir.
I like how they stack together. I. Cannot use body grip traps on land here only in a watercourse then out of the water I could only use a 110 or 120 size trap. They would be nice for when it snows for mink.
i love that they stack up like that. i'm able to store or transport a lot of them in a small space.
Adam Craig Outdoors I agree. That's handy if your covering a long line. What was the deal with the registered line ? Do you have to wait for one to come open.
Here in Ontario it is on a point system. The more years you trap the more points you get, if you are a member of a club you get points, etc. As line are available, i have to apply and the line is given to those with the most points. I applied for Kirk's old line and didn't get it. I only have been trapping for 2 years so i don't really have any points. all i can hope for is that no one else applies. lmao
Adam Craig Outdoors I think you should have got it if no one else applied for it. There are no registered lines here I can trap anywhere I have permission on private land and anywhere on pubic land like state game land, state forest and so on.
there were 20 people to apply for the line so i didn't expect to get it. I have no issue with the registered line because you know that by law, you are the only one who is allowed to trap on it. Right now, i'm just trapping private land. Not going to trap much until i get a line. too much effort for very little fur.
Very nice video. I'm building boxes tomorrow, but not exactly like this. But I got some nice hints and tips from you. What do you use to secure the traps fro falling out?
you just bend the springs up or down. It locks it in pretty good.
Thanks!
thanks for watching!!
good video
thanks for watching!!
Nice.
Thanks
Thanks for the video Adam, every night this week a marten would come and decapitate my chickens. I hope this works! Also, do you have any tip at keeping these animals away?
you got a dog? i had one for 11 years and it kept most critters away.
I have heard that dumping your coffee filters and coffee around your coop helps deter animals from trying to get in the coop. I kind of doubt it works but i do it anyways.
@@AdamCraigOutdoors thank you for the response and Im going to try the coffe one even tho it seems like a myth😂
will a duke 220 fit in the box?
I don't have any 220's to try but i don't think they would fit or they would be right at the very opening.
@@AdamCraigOutdoors that is what i wanted them to do to use for raccoon and otter with pans on the trigger wires . great design .the jaw spread on a duke 220 is listed as 7x7,ill make some and try it out .thanks for sharing.
A good trapper doesn't need boxes!!
Been only trapping for a few years, so i have lots to learn, all the great trappers around here use boxes. They use them for a few reasons like keeping birds off the bait, getting their traps in the right location for a clean catch, etc. So a box is another tool we use to make a quick kill on the animal we target.
@@AdamCraigOutdoors "Back in the day" we made cubby sets and didn't need boxes. FYI a chunk of eel makes a great bait when skewered on a connibear. It's too tough for most anything and I've had a single piece last the entire season. As to the birds, there aint many in the deep woods where I used to trap. Good luck!