Guillotine Trap Door Trigger
Bait is placed around and on top of the root stick and the trap is sprung when feeding and rooting pigs push the root stick out from behind the set stakes.
Guillotine trap door trigger. The door is held open by wedging the root stick behind the set stakes. I also want to build one with a door at each end and a live bait compartment in the middle. Detailed design including trigger of two gate guillotine style repeating corral hog trap for texas wild pig eradication. Step 2 bend one end of the trigger rod into a small 1 inch loop with a pair of pliers.
I personally prefer the guillotine door as it generally has a bigger opening and it is positively closed with an active latch to prevent pigs from rooting. The guillotine door raises up to create an opening into your trap and falls straight down when it s activated. The root stick trigger is dependent upon gravity and is best suited for use with a sliding drop door. I have some cage traps but they are swinging doors.
I just finished building a well house with my new mig welder and have some steel left over so i thought i might weld up a bigger trap with a guillotine style door if i could find a pattern i liked. Therefore it is extremely important that the trap be strategically baited to insure that most if not all of the pigs in a sounder have entered the trap. Guillotine or drop style doors are called single catch doors because once the trap has sprung that is the door has closed no more animals can enter the trap until it is manually reset. The length of time from when a trap is installed to when the trigger is set can take weeks or months or even longer depending on how quickly feral hogs are trained to enter the trap.