Keeping deer out of hog trap.

[Bhuntinfishn]

It's probably an aggie building the pen!

[JP Weld]

[QUOTE=Bhuntinfishn;7487142]It's probably an aggie building the pen![/QUOTE

Don't give a rip about the game or what knuckleheads play it but I will go for the Ag minded Aggies any day over a liberal based institution. Besides, I have seen those UT folks, they couldn't weld **** if their life depended on it!

****, should not have mentioned to you that I joined.

[BBReezen]

If you build an open top, build it to where there is a lip around the inside so it makes it harder for the hogs to get over the top. Make it stick out 4-6" to the inside.

[JP Weld]

If you build an open top, build it to where there is a lip around the inside so it makes it harder for the hogs to get over the top. Make it stick out 4-6" to the inside.

Considered that but the trap is 5X7 and am concerned about deer lacerating themselves while trying to jump out with limited space. Would like to build a large round pen but there is no such thing as dirt on my property. It is all unforgiving rock and not worth the time, work, and expense of what it would take to properly build a large pen.

[BBReezen]

Considered that but the trap is 5X7 and am concerned about deer lacerating themselves while trying to jump out with limited space. Would like to build a large round pen but there is no such thing as dirt on my property. It is all unforgiving rock and not worth the time, work, and expense of what it would take to properly build a large pen.

What are you building it out of? I was meaning to use tubing or angle to make your offset with, but I see where your concerns are. On a wooden trap my uncle and I built a long time ago, we had trouble with them climbing out and wired 2x4s along the sides over the inside edge. How tall are you making it?

[BBReezen]

Used to wire sticks across the door to keep calves out too, tall enough that you know a hog will go in but low enough the calves wouldn't go in.

[Nortexhntr]

Most definitely open top

[hunt n fish]

That is interesting about the burlap I have never heard of that

[JP Weld]

What are you building it out of? I was meaning to use tubing or angle to make your offset with, but I see where your concerns are. On a wooden trap my uncle and I built a long time ago, we had trouble with them climbing out and wired 2x4s along the sides over the inside edge. How tall are you making it?

I had a bunch of 1.5" pipe laying around so I built the walls out of that same height as hog panel (34") and knew that it was too short so I cut up a bunch of 1/2 X 1/2 X 12" square tube and welded on top of wall and then welded another piece of pipe around the top making it a tad over 4'. A buddy of mine told me that the hogs could jump out but I did not believe him and the first 3 separate hogs that I trapped, all jumped out.