TRAP

[fathom 2]

I was'nt to sure how to title this topic as i dont no the name of the trap in question.

 

Any how i'll try an explain it for you's i think its the trap brought into use after the gin traps were oblished it has a sissor action and i think its used by burying it just in the rabbits borrow with only the gripping arms exposing and as the rabbit leaves the borrow steps on the pressure plate the arms nab it.

 

any how what im looking to know well first of all the name of the trap and maybe a little history about the trap are they still made and who makes them and if not would it be possible to get my hands on a few for decent money are they like gold dust?

 

Thanks in advance for any replies.

 

Yours in sport

 

Fathom.

 

Happy hunting all.

[mackem 26,737]

Imbra?

[Rolfe 2]

Either an Imbra or a Juby i would think you are talking about Fathom.......they are no longer made but are still legal to use in this country provided they are used as the law states. The Imbra is on the left and the Juby on the right.

[fathom 2]

thanks very much lads they're the very traps im on about. if they.re still legal why did they stop making them? which is the better of the two traps? is there any traps available today that resemble them and are set in the same manner? are they hard to come by and if i did come by them what sort of money could i expect to pay for them? how do yous rate these traps to modern traps?

 

Sorry for all the questions lad's just intrested?

 

Thanks onve again lads

 

Happy Hunting ATB

 

Fathom

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

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Edited September 17, 2008 by CHALKWARREN

[fathom 2]

thanks very much lads they're the very traps im on about. if they.re still legal why did they stop making them? which is the better of the two traps? is there any traps available today that resemble them and are set in the same manner? are they hard to come by and if i did come by them what sort of money could i expect to pay for them? how do yous rate these traps to modern traps?

 

Sorry for all the questions lad's just intrested?

 

Thanks onve again lads

 

Happy Hunting ATB

 

Fathom

 

Hi ,..both of these rabbit traps are the end result of the 'feeding frenzy' that occured after the banning of the 'gin'.

The Ministry of Agriculture offered a financial incentive for folk to come up with new ideas and concepts for humane 'killing traps'... I do believe that this portion of our history was emotional...

 

The majority of ideas put forward as being suitable were the products of a whole bus-load of crazy,..possibly MAD inventors ..I've seen reams of pages and diagrams that were offered as being on a par with the Gin,..(and in truth,.few traps will ever match the gin for catching rabbits.... )....

Anyway,..the Juby and the Imbra are both good killing traps with the Imbra taking the top spot (the Juby will virtually cut an immature shushi in half)...

I still use a few dozen Imbras,..and after a dose of log-wood dye,..they are an efficient worker in a burrow situation.

 

Not much more to say realy,...

 

All the best,.CHALKWARREN...

 

 

thats a fine collection of traps chalkwarren and a nice shed set up as well, jealous not the word thanks for the info chalkwarren. i take it i would be like asking you to part with one of your limbs if i was to ask would you sell a couple no harm in asking as the man would say.

 

Thanks once again ATB

[Matt 160]

As Chalkwarren suggests, the IMBRA (IMB after the Imba ranges on Salisbury Plain, where it was tested & RA for Rabbit) was the better of the two traps IMHO.

 

The Juby is a bit too 'heavy duty' for my liking, and you need to be strong to set more than a few in a session.

 

The Imbra was designed by Frank Sawyer and is similar to the Sawyer Rabbit trap which won the coveted RSPCA (they were into animal welfare in those days) prize.

 

The rights to the Juby are still owned by MAFF (now DEFRA) and I believe that the rights to the IMBRA where aquired by someone at Blair Atholl.

 

Neither trap has been produced for some years now, which is a great shame.

[john b 38]

They used to turn up regularly on ebay but there's none on at the moment.

[fathom 2]

thanks for all the replies lads i appreciate it. a little more knowladge stored in the old memory bank.

 

Thanks once again everyone, Happy Hunting all

 

Fathom.