Which Mesh For A Live Fox Trap?

[THE GRIFF 8]

I am pondering on making some live fox traps and wondered if anyone could point me invthe direction of where to get some strong wire mesh from.

A link to the exact mesh and where I can get it from would be good.

Ideally I would like to make a couple of traps and at £100 each I thought it may be cheaper to make them and I can make them a bit bigger than a bought one.

 

Thanks

[Firefox 4]

Have a look at fh brundels steel just put it in Google they will have what u need

[THE GRIFF 8]

Have a look at fh brundels steel just put it in Google they will have what u need

Thanks, but I am wanting to know exactly which mesh people are using, the problem is it all looks the same when looking at a picture.

Some sites advertise the steel thickness in mm's, others gauge, and how big do the squares need to be.

[socks 32,253]

1 inche square weld mesh it should come in sheets

[THE GRIFF 8]

 

1 inche square weld mesh it should come in sheets

I have a roll of 1 inch square weld mesh that we made a ladder trap out of but it doesn't look strong enough to cage a fox, what thickness steel should I be looking for?

[Firefox 4]

Is needs to be 2.5mm /12g or thicker and I use 2"x2" mesh

[walshie 2,804]

Just measured mine. It's 2" mesh and the bars are approx 4mm.

[BROCK DOG 126]

exactly as fire fox has sed you can get 8ft / 4ft sheets make sure it galvanised otherwise it will rust

[gibbo1973 187]

prefer to be rusty looking as if you put it in farm yards next to old machinery it does stand out like sore thumb even the one i bought

i got it sandblasted to take the bling off it

2" x2" s ideal

Edited April 15, 2013 by gibbo1973

[BROCK DOG 126]

there is 5ft ones on ebay for 50 notes

[04fox8 168]

there is 5ft ones on ebay for 50 notes

Do you have a link / Ref. No.?

The 5' ones I'm seeing are £139.

 

Cheers.

[walshie 2,804]

Anything under a hundred quid or so will get destroyed by about the 2nd fox you catch.

[BROCK DOG 126]

i dont mate juat spotted it when looking for mesh the other day

[04fox8 168]

Okey Dokey, Cheers Brock Dog..

 

Walshie, Think you'd be right in saying that. I'm 1/2 waythrough cobbling 1 together from some bits and pieces I had lying about.

Mesh may be a slightly lesser gauge than if I had been buying it, but I had it lying about, so that's what I'm using for this one.

 

Interesting to see how heavy a gauge has been suggested on here. I'll be rattling up another 1 or 2 in the months to come (probably be winter time again now tho.) So I'll have to buy my mesh next time around.

 

My framework is perhaps on the 'heavy' side, but apart from having to figure out a stronger 'latch' mechanism, it looks like it just may work.

[BROCK DOG 126]

i would use the same gage mesh as i use on dog pens which is 12g 2.5mm you can pick 8/4ft sheets up of galvanised mesh for around 25 pound a sheet so if you got 2 sheets that should be enuff to make a 5ft trap atb jack