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Post by redeagle on Apr 4, 2008 18:14:00 GMT -6
I don't know how to weld, and so I prefer to use those steel posts that farmers use for electrical fences. They come 4' long, made of 5/16" diameter round rod, with a triangular plate fastened 12" from the bottom so that the rod won't turn from side to side in the ground, and are painted yellow when I bought them. I just bend them in the shape I want them and spray paint them a different color.
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Post by johnthomas on Apr 4, 2008 20:58:29 GMT -6
there is another one bouncing around the conventions with a large washer welded on a 2 foot half inch rebar, 2 holes are drilled in the washer and 6 foot of no.9 wire is threaded thru the two holes and a drill applied to the two lenghths of wire and twisted up to the last 6 inches the one protuding length is clipped off the the other left to hang snare on, snare is anchored to the rebar with the looped end, gives a super sturdy support and anchor all in one, all these have one thing in common in my opinion, it sure is a heck of a mess to sort out and keep straight just to catch some critter.
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Post by rk660 on Apr 4, 2008 21:04:41 GMT -6
there are a 100 different options for support wires, from hard galv no 9 wire, to extra heavy extra bulky rebar, wood, kill poles, etc. I get by pretty good on low coon loops with stiffer hard gavl no 9. i like the RW supports on anything higher up in the air. The big advantage of the RW, is thats its plenty rigid, with out being overly heavy and bulky. If running 250-500 snares, the bulk/weight factor becomes important.
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