Guillotine Trap Door Design

Essentially there is a trigger or trip wire that releases a door to fall down similar to.

Guillotine trap door design.

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. One drawback of guillotine gates is that they do not allow additional pigs to enter once the trap has been triggered. The door is essentially the blade of the guillotine supported by a rope and two pulleys. This version simply turns a full sheet of plywood sideways to make an even wider doorway.

Guillotine or sliding drop gates use a trip wire to trigger the door to fall. The rooter lifter door can be modified to increase capture rate. 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. Rooter lifter door modifications rooter lifter doors are a.

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. Modified gate design 8 wide door for single door trap. The guillotine door raises up to create an opening into your trap and falls straight down when it s activated. Detailed design including trigger of two gate guillotine style repeating corral hog trap for texas wild pig eradication.

Photo courtesy of texas agrilife extension. Now when it comes to the actual trap imagine a guillotine. Although most trap styles are derivatives of the basic corral or box designs several modifications can be made to trap doors. This is not a continuous trapping door once it s closed it s closed until you come and manually open it or reset it.

Our cage trap design reduce the magnetic field intensity measured inside the trap to reduce the animal s ability to detect the trap and increase your catch percentages. 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. Townsend traps are the best traps science can design. Rooter lifting head gate on box trap.

We have been asked to explain how a guillotine hog trap door works. Door designs include the guillotine drop door spring swing door and rooter lifter door. Tt 1000 double door spring loaded guillotine trap. Connected to the 2 4 is the first pulley.

Guillotine drop head gate on corral trap.