had a rancher call and asked me if i would build a big hog trap that the hogs can just push and keep going in. so here is what i built. its in the shape of a number six.



the entrance takes very little effort to open. hope it works

I built one just like it only smaller(30' of 4"x4" 48"x20'panels) about 3 months ago. Worked great.

We are building a couple after season, thanks for posting, I still don't know the do's and don'ts, ideas regarding one.

That looks like a great idea.

Never tried one, heard they work.

Very nice. I am impressed sir. Please keep us posted with pics.

Yes, would like some updates. Good idea. If it's successful I'll try one.

i suprize my own self sometimes, but my old 73 yr old grand pa set the door. it opens realy easy.he told me to put a acorn tree in it so we would have 2 types of feed.lol who knows

Looks good monte.

Did you overlap the panels about 6in.? I had some big hogs break out of mine before I started overlapping the panels.

It will work! Those are the good panels too. Friend of mine has been using one last few months successfully! Just keep it baited Looks like a 9 to me

That's all we normally use. We made ours smaller and didn't have the long "wing" to funnel them in. Our door opening was a little larger and we wrapped the long arm part a little closer so when the door slammed shut, there was no way of pushing it open. We used a T post about every 3 feet and added an extra one by the door. We have had ours torn up by pigs. We use a trip wire to set it off.

How many panels did you use on this?

Looks good. Looking forward to seeing how it works.

i over lapped it. 5 pannels , i thought about putting a second door on the other side and a wing just to see if we catch more

love this style of trap...i started doing a set wire with a tpost set all the way wraped around the trap. good traps either way though

Cool. I'm going to be building one soon and have been curious about overall size so this helps knowing I can get one made with the 6 or 7 panels I still have at my property

So what is your procedure for activating the trap to catch?

first you feed corn to get them coming in.
Will you hang a small hanging feeder?
Or just throw in corn in a day or two before trapping time.

When it's time to trap will you set a trigger to close the gap?
Or let them squeeze threw the choke gap?

i put 25 lbs of corn in it and open the gap so the first hog will hopefully go easy then the others will just push open the pannel, no hanging feeder . mite put a sow in there to draw some boars to the aere to catch with my dogs.

i put 25 lbs of corn in it and open the gap so the first hog will hopefully go easy then the others will just push open the pannel, no hanging feeder . mite put a sow in there to draw some boars to the aere to catch with my dogs.

Its gonna work good!

Sounds good. So it's tapping now? Can't wait to see what ya get.

I look forward to the pictures.

nice

put a sow in there (feed & water) and you will have hogs coming