Fenn Trap Boxes

[dagger1 8]

I was just wondering is there any other way of covering my fenn traps rather than wooden box tunnels can anyone give me any tips or ideas thanks

[Matt 160]

Wood, wire, or natural materials

 

Some of the best tunnels I've seen have been based on stone through walls and next to gates etc...

 

Whatever you do, make sure it's a nice 'snug' fit........ a simple three sided wooden tunnel is the good basis for many more natural looking tunnels and is fairly inexpensive to produce

[dagger1 8]

Cheers matt the rat cud you tell me thw usual sizes for a normal three sided wood tunel cheers

[The one 8,480]

As said the fit is more important than the materials ive had great results on rats using brick's for tunnels

[Born Hunter 17,774]

One of my best tunnels is 8 bricks, a pot pipe and an offcut of timber for a roof. It looks a fecking mess but it's what I had to hand at the time and it's an efficient little killer. TBH I daren't tidy it up or replace it!

 

You can dig ya tunnels in a bit as well, set bricks into the ground two course deep and wide enough to fit a set mk4 with the safety off and chuck an appropriate size sod on top with a bit of board above the trap to keep in from sagging.

 

If you're cutting deadfall in your spinneys/woods a few logs can be stacked into a tunnel or even a old pile of rocks under a hedge.

 

Just be creative, that's kinda the fun in it all.

[J Darcy 5,871]

Maybe location is more important than actual tunnel type??

 

 

I trap in a garden for an old lady as she hates rabbits. I have about five traps set in various places but one spot in particular is a real sweetspot. I've had more rabbits in that trap than the rest combined, as well as stoats, squirrels and rats. And all it is is a plain wooden box. Funny old game isn't it!

[The one 8,480]

Same here 2 bricks on there side the width of the trap then one on top set the trap put two bricks each side of the trap and bricks on top then two bricks as guide with another one at the other end , dead easy lifting a brick off the top to see if youve caught ought but i cant see many folk lugging that amount of bricks around to set fens for rats

[Born Hunter 17,774]

Manual labour! pfffft!...... that's what quads are for!

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

 

 

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

 

 

what walk??!

[ROB.BOB 21]

My favourite is just to make boxes/tunnels with natural stone with one (or two if there's not one big enough) flat top stone to lift off to get into it, rock piles and walls are great for trapping so carting stone around isn't a bother.

 

I like getting to a trap from above, easier to set them down after feathering the plate, cover with moss, can just pick out old bait and replace it etc. hate the three plank wooden boxes the safteys never seem to fit when traps set ( may fit when box is new but after years of the ground settling around them it always seems to crush the bottoms in.) and you have to fumble around blind feeling for old bits of egg and bone when cleaning them out BALL ACHE!!