Guillotine Door Trap

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.

Guillotine door trap.

Guillotine door hog trap. I started using a guillotine gate in the early 1980 s on my first wild pig 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.

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. Connected to the 2 4 is the first pulley. 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. The rooter lifter door can be modified to increase capture rate.

Guillotine gate or continuous catch gate. This kind of trap can be a little tricky to set and care should be taken with your fingers not to hurt yourself. A guillotine door hog trap works just like you think. Photo courtesy of texas agrilife extension.

Door designs include the guillotine drop door spring swing door and rooter lifter door. The door is essentially the blade of the guillotine supported by a rope and two pulleys. Rooter lifting head gate on box trap. One drawback of guillotine gates is that they do not allow additional pigs to enter once the trap has been triggered.

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. 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. Great for adc work. I quickly moved away from it in favor of the so called continuous catch gates saloon door rooter gate swinging door because i.

Since the door closes in a straight down manner it minimizes the likelihood of obstructions preventing its closing. This is not a continuous trapping door once it s closed it s closed until you come and manually open it or reset it. Rooter lifter door modifications rooter lifter doors are a. Guillotine drop head gate on corral trap.

It is made from a 6 inch diameter 3 16 inch thick pipe 24 inches long and has a solid steel backplate. A skunk cannot spray while in this trap they can not lift their tail arch their back or see out. Now when it comes to the actual trap imagine a guillotine. They can easily be transported.

The guillotine door raises up to create an opening into your trap and falls straight down when it s activated.