Guillotine Trap Door Design

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 trap door design.

This is not a continuous trapping door once it s closed it s closed until you come and manually open it or reset it. The guillotine door raises up to create an opening into your trap and falls straight down when it s activated. Modified gate design 8 wide door for single door 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.

Detailed design including trigger of two gate guillotine style repeating corral hog trap for texas wild pig eradication. The rooter lifter door can be modified to increase capture rate. Tt 1000 double door spring loaded guillotine trap. Guillotine or sliding drop gates use a trip wire to trigger the door to fall.

The door is essentially the blade of the guillotine supported by a rope and two pulleys. Connected to the 2 4 is the first pulley. Now when it comes to the actual trap imagine a guillotine. 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.

The cost for this gate vs. 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. Rooter lifter door modifications rooter lifter doors are a. 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.

Although most trap styles are derivatives of the basic corral or box designs several modifications can be made to trap doors. The 4 wide guillotine gate detailed previously is slightly higher because of additional. We have been asked to explain how a guillotine hog trap door works. One drawback of guillotine gates is that they do not allow additional pigs to enter once the trap has been triggered.

This version simply turns a full sheet of plywood sideways to make an even wider doorway. Photo courtesy of texas agrilife extension. Guillotine drop head gate on corral trap. Door designs include the guillotine drop door spring swing door and rooter lifter door.

By kirk dekalb new arrival.