Prepping Traps

It was a rainy day last Saturday so I decided to pull out the rainy day chore list. At the top of the list was dyeing and waxing my coyote traps.

The first step in dyeing the trap is pressure wash or boil them to get the protective grease coating off.  Once that's done, you leave them out for a week or two to develop a coat of rust.

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I'd previously boiled these traps a while back, plus they'd been buried most of last winter, which hopefully took all the smell off of them.  They've also been hanging for a long time and developed an nice coat of rust.

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Here's my boiling pot.  Once it starts boiling, I'll add the dye.

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Testing to see if the trap would fit in the boiling pot.  It ended up not being deep enough, so I had to switch out to a 5 gallon pail I had laying around.

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While I was waiting for the pot to boil, I took a drive past the old abandoned car in the woods.  It's a cool old car.  I'd imagine a good restorer would love to get his hands on it.

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Unfortunately I got busy and forgot to take a final picture of the trap. I'll take one next time I go down.