Guillotine Door Trap

Rooter lifting head gate on box trap.

Guillotine door trap.

This trap is very heavy duty with guillotine style solid steel door. The bobcat grey fox cage trap has a locking guillotine type gravity door constructed of 25 cold rolled steel rod. A guillotine door hog trap works just like you think. I started using a guillotine gate in the early 1980 s on my first wild pig trap.

Now when it comes to the actual trap imagine a guillotine. Since the door closes in a straight down manner it minimizes the likelihood of obstructions preventing its closing. Rooter lifter door modifications rooter lifter doors are a. A skunk cannot spray while in this trap they can not lift their tail arch their back or see out.

I quickly moved away from it in favor of the so called continuous catch gates saloon door rooter gate swinging door because i. The rooter lifter door can be modified to increase capture rate. Photo courtesy of texas agrilife extension. The combination of gravity coupled with the powder coating makes this an extremely fast closing and quiet trap door.

This is not a continuous trapping door once it s closed it s closed until you come and manually open it or reset it. 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 frame built for the door is roughly six feet tall so we used two eight foot fence posts buried two feet into the ground and a 2 4 across the top. The guillotine door raises up to create an opening into your trap and falls straight down when it s activated.

Although most trap styles are derivatives of the basic corral or box designs several modifications can be made to trap doors. Guillotine door hog trap. It is made from a 6 inch diameter 3 16 inch thick pipe 24 inches long and has a solid steel backplate. The front door of the trap falls straight down and usually locks in place so the hogs can t push it up with their nose when the trap is tripped.

Door designs include the guillotine drop door spring swing door and rooter lifter door. Guillotine drop head gate on corral trap. Great for adc work. This kind of trap can be a little tricky to set and care should be taken with your fingers not to hurt yourself.

Guillotine gate or continuous catch gate. One drawback of guillotine gates is that they do not allow additional pigs to enter once the trap has been triggered. 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. 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 door is essentially the blade of the guillotine supported by a rope and two pulleys.