Detailed design including trigger of two gate guillotine style repeating corral hog trap for texas wild pig eradication.
Guillotine trap door trigger.
The root stick trigger is dependent upon gravity and is best suited for use with a sliding drop door.
With the door in the open position make the rod long enough to run along the top of the trap from the bait pan assembly to 2 inches past the bottom end of the door.
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.
I also want to build one with a door at each end and a live bait compartment in the middle.
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.
The trigger is set only when all hogs in a.
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 guillotine door raises up to create an opening into your trap and falls straight down when it s activated.
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.
The door is held open by wedging the root stick behind the set stakes.
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.
I have some cage traps but they are swinging doors.