Author Topic: Railroad Plates (Read 470 times)

Coniboy · « **on:** September 06, 2003, 11:32:45 AM »

I found about 20 old rail road plates and would they work for a drowner cable ancor for muskrats and mink?I also put 2, 8" bolts on one for a fox and raccons drag.It was in FFG.

David Underwood · « **Reply #1 on:** September 06, 2003, 12:52:00 PM »

They work real good for rats and mink.

Dan Mich Trapper · « **Reply #2 on:** September 06, 2003, 01:20:58 PM »

I would be kinda leary about usin them for coon . They are pretty tough critters .

Jacktheknife · « **Reply #3 on:** October 10, 2004, 05:38:33 AM »

Rail road plates are good drags for Coyotes even!
I like them better than grappels. Weight ! Is the reason.
Make good anvils too. And at $90.00 a ton I used to sell them for scrap.
Knife

foxtail · « **Reply #4 on:** October 19, 2004, 04:53:26 PM »

I use them all of the time.
Now keep in mind that there are several sizes.
There are switch plates which are so heavy that I leave the one I have at the place it is used and use it for coon alone. I really don't like it all that well as I can't toss it far enough to get where I want it. I have to carry it out in the water and drop it where it goes. This one is used for a drowner weight.
There are the regular sized ones which make wonderfull drags when you use 2 of them together on a long (6 foot) chain.

Then there are those baby ones that come off of the small tracks that I don't think anyone uses anymore. They have to be used with care and NEVER just one.

If you use too light of a weight, the coon may take it up in a tree and tangle it up there and that sucks the big one. I have seen a 45lb coon take 2 regular ones up a tree just far enough to make it rather hard to get it out compounded with the fact that we had no gun that day.