Boar buster feral hog trap

[Dustbuster]

This thing is amazing ! Record of 44 trapped at one time!

http://youtu.be/IiLJHlt2B4s

[glowdotGlock]

That is pretty slick

[RED333]

That is cool, but this would be more fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUyQqJi1_DY

[Dustbuster]

Lol good one, smoked bacon

[Garufa]

It'd be a lot cooler if it guillotined the pigs.

[Oh Shoot]

I bet them little ones are particularly tasty.

 

- OS

[peejman]

Cool. Seems like if you have a drill to tighten the bolts, you could use it to raise the trap instead of the winch.

[Omega]

I dont think the drill could produce the torque required to raise all that weight.

 

I like this, but I've seen other low tech traps that capture a bunch too.  One thing I didn't see, if trying to harvest vs exterminate, is a way to get them out one at a time.  Some companies are capturing pigs and taking to feed the hungry programs which require the  coralling of pigs like this.

[Dirtshooter]

It is ok, but T post and hog panels virtually same trap, put it in shape of a 9. Omega you probably already know but in case you don't it is against the law in Tn. to transport a live feral hog. I personally would poison all the feral hogs if it was legal. They can destroy a lot of acreage pretty fast. I don't recall the exact numbers but you can take 1 boar and 2 sows and in about 3 years could have thousands of these danged critters. You can't keep up by shooting them either, they are not like deer that you can sort of pattern, they just roam around too much.

[KahrMan]

This company had one their traps at the NWTF show last weekend.  They were doing demos and it was pretty cool.

Edited February 23, 2015 by KahrMan

[Omega]

It is ok, but T post and hog panels virtually same trap, put it in shape of a 9. Omega you probably already know but in case you don't it is against the law in Tn. to transport a live feral hog. I personally would poison all the feral hogs if it was legal. They can destroy a lot of acreage pretty fast. I don't recall the exact numbers but you can take 1 boar and 2 sows and in about 3 years could have thousands of these danged critters. You can't keep up by shooting them either, they are not like deer that you can sort of pattern, they just roam around too much.

Yea I know about TN, I think it was TX that is now allowing hogs to enter the feed the hungry program and maybe FL too.  I am sure that when they get here in large numbers, TN will have to adapt to accommodate reality.  Right now its about not having them relocated for sporting purposes like it is alleged happened around Ft Campbell.  I was stationed in GA, and when they finally got onto Hunter Army Airfield they destroyed the area I used to hunt in.   There was a large pipe that went under a highway next to the base which they used to get into the base during a drought; luckily it was easy enough to wipe them out there since it was all fenced in but it took a few months.  At Fort Stewart just up the road from us they had to use the hog panel traps sometimes to get them out of residential areas.

[owejia]

W_W makes good stuff. I have some of their cattle handling equipment, heavy duty. In Texas they catch and transport live to slaughter houses to process them.

[10-Ring]

I see a lot of problems with this trap.  It's heavy and bulky, and undoubtedly expensive.  The thing it has going for it is it's portability.  Another problem I see is the trap falling on a pig, injuring/trapping it and letting the others escape.  Heck I wouldn't want a mouse to suffer.  You can get the same results much cheaper with a few hog panels and devising a one way door, which isn't hard with a little ingenuity.