Guillotine Trap Door Design

The door is essentially the blade of the guillotine supported by a rope and two pulleys.

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. Townsend traps are the best traps science can design. By kirk dekalb new arrival. Door designs include the guillotine drop door spring swing door and rooter lifter door.

The rooter lifter door can be modified to increase capture rate. Tt 1000 double door spring loaded guillotine trap. Now when it comes to the actual trap imagine a guillotine. 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.

One drawback of guillotine gates is that they do not allow additional pigs to enter once the trap has been triggered. The guillotine door raises up to create an opening into your trap and falls straight down when it s activated. We have been asked to explain how a guillotine hog trap door works. 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.

Guillotine drop head gate on corral 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. Although most trap styles are derivatives of the basic corral or box designs several modifications can be made to trap doors. 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.

Rooter lifting head gate on box trap. Modified gate design 8 wide door for single door trap. Rooter lifter door modifications rooter lifter doors are a. This is not a continuous trapping door once it s closed it s closed until you come and manually open it or reset it.

Connected to the 2 4 is the first pulley. This version simply turns a full sheet of plywood sideways to make an even wider doorway. Photo courtesy of texas agrilife extension. The 4 wide guillotine gate detailed previously is slightly higher because of additional.

Guillotine or sliding drop gates use a trip wire to trigger the door to fall.