2014 - Volume #38, Issue #4, Page #19
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"Box Trap" Bags More Gophers
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Called the Box Trap, it’s a wooden box measuring 6 3/4 in. long by 3 3/4 in. wide by 3 in. high, with the bottom portion and back end of the trap left completely open.
To set the trap, you press a spring bar into the trap, place a hold-down bar across the spring bar, and then slide the trigger wire over the hold-down bar.
To use the trap, find a fresh gopher mound and find an entrance to the tunnel. Dig a large enough area to place the trap below the ground surface (about 4 in., or as close as you can get to the main tunnel). You should only be able to see the label on the trap from the surface.
“Pocket gophers don’t like air flowing through their tunnel. As soon as the gopher senses the airflow, it’ll quickly go to the area to backfill,” says Mendoza. “Air flows in through a vent on the upper end and into the tunnel. As the gopher comes to backfill the airflow, it trips a trigger which releases 2 springs that catch the gopher, no matter how big or small it is.”
The Box Trap sells for $16.63 plus tax and S&H.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Wilco Distributors, Inc., P.O. Box 291, Lompoc, Calif. 93438 (ph 800 769-5040; williewilc@aol.com; www.wilcodistributors.com).
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