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Post by kelly on May 9, 2011 8:51:25 GMT -6
Just found out that Marvin Kraus is in Strawberry Point, correct? If so, that is over here on my end of the State and a couple hours from me. Still need to find his phone number, if anyone has it?
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Post by rk660 on May 9, 2011 9:16:04 GMT -6
Krauses # 563-608-4401. bet you'll do at least 6 on them. on cleans and slights, he wont care if ya take the dmg and send it to auction, he'll even drop em off at rick for ya for fha june sale. and bet you wont have more than 20% light and heavy dmg, how he grades them. call me eve if ya want, and ill fill in the details to ya.
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Post by rk660 on May 9, 2011 9:36:01 GMT -6
Paul, pack up and move.
You could be a resident in 60 to 90 days.
I just sold my house in town, if I could sell this farm, I'd be gone. Anybody want it? Sell for what I got in it. I'd even leave ya a pile of trapper treasures: 5 gal buckets of rotten stuff, 4 ft tall pile of bent up colonies, prolly a 100 rebar stakes, J-hooks, broke traps, lawnmowered over misc pieces of cable, plus a long ton in scrap steel from 20 years worth of trapping projects that didnt pan out, but never had heart to throw away. bring your metal detector. Hell Ill even throw in a "trapper loved and babied" truck. Ones got a fresh bullet hole thru driver mirror, not saying any more about that. bet a $100 worth of trapping junk under seat if your brave enough to stick hand under seat. I aint had the guts to for 3-4 years.
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Post by thorsmightyhammer on May 9, 2011 20:16:29 GMT -6
Finally sold the house in town.
Might take as long ot sell the truck ha
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Post by trappincoyotes39 on May 10, 2011 18:02:05 GMT -6
rich if you remember Necina fur Co they made a float type trap that had 5 built it in 110's shaped and sized like a stop sign plywood bottom, built in kill traps on the 5 flats and a big step on pan, had sides and a top and used 1.5" thick foam on the bottom, the top was sheet metal and had a lid to place bait in the middle of this enclosed float, worked awsome on rats and even caught a few mink in them. They where enviting for the rats to climb up inside, once they placed weight on the pans down came the striker bar and there you had it.
I wished I would have kept them years ago and not sold them. Covered the tops with some cat tails and they looked real enviting to those rats. I think they where like 25.00 or 30.00 each but mutliple rats happened alot with this setup.
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Post by mnarcher on May 12, 2011 14:41:27 GMT -6
If I knew I was going to lose my job a week after I got back I would have been out there a mon th earlier!
Live and learn I guess...
michael
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Post by rk660 on May 13, 2011 10:38:49 GMT -6
Kinda remember them 110 deal. Problem I see, bulky and nothing that great over a flat board. I could carry prolly 5-6 boards and traps to every one of them. board should do ya 1-1.75 rats per day thruought. 1.5 per day at peak easy.
Kinda same thing funnels vs colonies. funnels catch a lot per trap at times, but compared pickup load to pickload, I'd be 100's ahead with colonies stacked inside each other.
you can only haul so much gear, and kinda need get most bang for the sq. footage it take to haul it.
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Post by bblwi on May 13, 2011 11:02:55 GMT -6
RK you mentioned the 4-5 foot 3inch logs with 3-4 traps per log as working very well. Were you able to tell any difference between those and the flat floats when there were high winds and wave action with debris etc.? Did one work better than another. Sort of makes a case for designing some narrower floats, say 7 inches wide etc.
Bryce
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Post by rk660 on May 13, 2011 13:17:24 GMT -6
your hosed on either at about 6" chop, really less, as the rats are gonna move to more sheltered areas to perch. More important how good you can pick spots that block the wind, than what used. Small spots of calm water behind some sort of obstruction will get used on windy side. Getting behind cattails usually most obvious windbreak. in corners back end of road ditch, behind trees are others. Some places w/ no windbreak you just pull it on given day and dump it somewhere else by sundown. Throwing a good handful of wet slop to act as ballast helps if you got light floats that bob too much in light breeze. Theyll will climb up on stuff in a little wind, but if the perch bounces up/down too much they dont like it. Float is a moveable perch, log more of a static naterual perch. The right log in the right spot, Ive pegged down w/ metal ele fence stakes if needed. Even drilled a hole thru small logs to peg down. Rigidity of your pole makes a difference too on a float. The smaller fiberglass rod so popular now flex and whip a float back/forth a lot, and Ill use a more rigid pole when needed. Then you get the 50 mph wind off 1/2 to 5 miles of water, come back to a 4 ft ball of cattails, logs buckets, beer cans and about anything else that was on the lake. Scratch your head and wonder where you gear went. Found one on the road 20-30 yards away once, 1/2 buried in bark, sticks and weeds, compleate with a flattened rat and trap. One road had a 1/4 mile long pile of debris washed on road. Getting behind cattails didnt save me much when rr ties and 12" dia plowed thru them and flattened out. Couple days later as the front end loader where piling up the mess and loading in dump trucks, I watched the piles for pink foam. Never found mine but found someone elses.
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Post by bblwi on May 13, 2011 18:47:19 GMT -6
Thanks for the insights Rick.
Bryce
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