leaning pole pictures

[musher]

I'm been dabbling with posting pics and this is an attempt to see if I've got it straight.

I figured that I might as well make it useful so here'a how I make my marten leaning poles.

What I like about them is that they last, work well, and lynx will use them too.

What's bad about them is that they can accumulate snow in front of the box if the pole is too wide.

The first pic is an old box that a bear did a number on. The pole was a patch job from last year. The location is good for a marten or two a year for the past 20 years. It is the forth box that I replace there.

The next pic is the tree cut down at a reasonable height. The type of tree doesn't matter. If it's a softwood you might have a sap problem. However, I use fir regularily.

Notice that I notch the top of the "stump." This is to stabalize the pole. The Rest of the tree is delimbed and put onto the notch.

Once the tree is in position a spot is flattened to place the box on.



And we have the finished installation. I screw on the box. One screw in front and another in the rear.

[trappnman]

so how many of these do you run?

I tried leaning poles for coon, and didn't have much success with them- do you have coon by you?

[TrappingAddict]

nice pics. do you leave the backs open on the box or is it screened?

[bill1306 (Phil)]

When I lived in Alaska, we ran a lot of leaning poles for martin and used #1 sls for traps and a piece of snowshoe rabbit for bait. We placed the bait out on the end of the pole and the trap a few inches back from the bait. The martin would run up there, step in the trap and then the trap would come off of the pole and the martin would be hanging there frozen when you checked the trap the next time. Martin trapping is coo.........

[musher]

The backs are screened.

I caught 2 coon last year. That is about the same number, total, that I have caught in the past 10 years. They were both in this type of set.

I don't know exactly how many I run. I think that it's about 60.

Fisher are set the same way but it's a 160 box.

[makete]

What kinda trap/box do you use for cats? People if you could please add pics it would greatly help us more simple minded people see what you are discribing. ;D

[musher]

If I'm setting with cats in mind, I set a larger BG like a 330 in a bigger box, on the ground.

However, it is not unheard of for a lynx to walk up a pole, as in the picture, and have it get caught by the head or paw.

[romans117]

Nice. Really nice.

[S. LULA]

Here is my basic setup Milkjug/ garden hose trap holder chunk of beaver shot of scent away ya go

[cflann]

Lula,

I think I get the milk jug, but could you explain the garden hose trap holder?

[musher]

I don't know if lula does it this way, but one way is that you take a 2 inch length of hose, split it length wise and nail it to the tree. The deeper you nail it the wider the hose gets. You grip the lower jaw of the BG on the hose.

[S. LULA]

I use the flat sprinkler hose about 3 inches or so i guess Here is a close up of my setup

[musher]

Interesting. I use old garden hose. Dang dogs chew one up once in a while. I also place the hose parallel to the jaws because I place the dog of my trap on the last/first from the jaw notch.

[S. LULA]

My wife keeps wonderin why the flowers are dying. I very on dog notches. Messed up a bunch years back with a file so it s the first or last on those ones .