Here's one for OTC

[swanseajack 227]

This is on the wall on a farmhouse I'm doing the moles on, thought you might like it !!

 

[Teesdale-rabbiter 15]

if that was on a farm house wall round here it would have been long gone! nice pics

[JOHNBOY 18]

that would sting the ankle a tad

[ButterWouldntMelt 0]

Would be nice if it was open & a door bell in the middle!!!

[ashleybee 7]

Would be nice if it was open & a door bell in the middle!!!

That would be quite amuseimg that

[OldTrapCollector 377]

That's a nice one - what a shame it is out in all weathers, and that rusty horseshoe on it won't help it either ...

 

It will be a late 1800's fox and badger trap - although they are often called (and could be used as) man traps - the idea was that the animal would pick up a bait attached to the plate of the trap and be head caught rather than it be a foot hold trap as you might expect.

 

It is missing a spring and the plate assembly but otherwise it is all there

 

Thanks for showing it - nice to see that they are still out there

 

OTC

[swamp thang 16]

Wow, that is one fearsome set of chompers. Out here in the African boondocks, gin traps with interlocking spikes are in widespread use despite being totally illegal. I know an old geezer who stepped on one during a deer drive, and he was never the same after that.

[JR Yipp 111]

i have one similar with both springs but is rusty and dosent have much springy tension left.interestingly i found it in a wood, buried but set. had been there a very very long time.