Author Topic: Trapping Vehicle (Read 2111 times)

andytrapper · « **on:** June 29, 2009, 11:56:44 AM »

What Was your first Trapping Vehicle or What was First one you trapped out of?

My first one was a 1992 Chevy Silverado 2wd 5speed 6v.

Now I have 1997 Chevy S10 2wd 5speed 4inline

Andy

Bogmaster · « **Reply #1 on:** June 29, 2009, 01:29:24 PM »

First vehicle was a 26 inch bicycle.First motorized vehicle ,was a 1964 chev Biscayne.
Looks like I may be back to the bicycle this year.
Tom

RdFx · « **Reply #2 on:** June 29, 2009, 04:39:35 PM »

Yeppers Tom mine was a 26 inch bike also with big steer horn type handlebars. I had packbasket on my back and had a basket in front to carry things also, usually the days catch ect plus overruns went into the pack basket. Sometimes i stashed fur and went back to pick it up.
Then it was a hodaka motorcycle which really let me go farther and carry more.

andytrapper · « **Reply #3 on:** June 29, 2009, 05:32:02 PM »

Are ya going to put hitch on you Bicycle? Or i can get ya a Moped, i can put hitch on it for ya so you can pull your trailer up to trapper meets

Andy

cottonjonas · « **Reply #4 on:** June 30, 2009, 04:13:27 AM »

walked my first little line.
then i got me a 1972 c-10 2 wheel drive

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #5 on:** June 30, 2009, 06:37:59 AM »

My first trapped Vehicle was an Arrons riding lawn mower with an 8 HP motor.
I was about 7 at the time and dug a hole in the back yard rolling up the sod very carefully and then adding sticks to the hole to hold up the sod. Dad came steaming around the corner and right over the little sticks and sunk the lawn mower into the trap.
Dad had a good sense of humor about it and asked why I wanted to trap the lawn mower. I showed him a picture in a book of guys trying to trap a manmouth and since they were none in NJ I had to try something else.

bblwi · « **Reply #6 on:** July 03, 2009, 05:02:37 PM »

Walked the first year as a 9 year old trapping pocket gophers. Got enough to buy a 3 speed bike and expanded my line for about 13 years and then went to work and live on a dairy farm and did not trap much until 1981. Ford Custom 100 with 3-speed and two wheel drive. I now drive a 2000 Explorer with a trailer if needed etc.

Bryce

TrapperRay · « **Reply #7 on:** July 04, 2009, 03:54:40 AM »

First true trapping car was a chevy Vega, tad bit crowded, then went to a ford van(shortie), loved it, everything was dry and sorta orginized, now a days its a toyota tacoma, a varity of units over the years and they all worked at the time!

41 magnum · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2009, 03:24:00 PM »

first and still current
87 toyota 4x4, 285K
drive it to work daily too

wormbobskey · « **Reply #9 on:** July 21, 2009, 02:39:06 AM »

Mine was a 1972 C-10, 3/4 ton Camper speacial. Armstrong steering and a custom hunter green spray can paint job.

hunt-m-up · « **Reply #10 on:** July 21, 2009, 08:28:22 AM »

20+ year old Shetland pony, ornery as hell, then moved up to a '67 Chevy Belair 4 door with studded mud and snows on the rear...sweet

coonbait · « **Reply #11 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:43:59 PM »

Polaris sportsman 500

Arier Blut · « **Reply #12 on:** July 25, 2009, 11:53:15 AM »

A surplus m38a1 willys jeep I paid $400 for on time.The agreement was $100 a year for 4 years. I paid off on the second trapping season. Boy I was a rich guy back then.

Rear drive shaft was broke so it took a season of fwd to get enough to fix it. I still use it along with the military cart. It has made it for many years now, but retired from daily driver 5 years ago.

jiminpa · « **Reply #13 on:** July 27, 2009, 03:20:45 PM »

a old honda 1970 k-50 was my first motorized vehicle.went thru a lot of vehicles since then!! now is a 2000 gmc sierra.

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #14 on:** July 29, 2009, 11:39:15 AM »

Mine was a bike too and then when I was 13 my Dad got me a motor bike so I had bounty lines for fox, coyote and bobcat that went out 15 miles or so. I could carry 4 coyotes or bobcats with the motor bile. One over the handlebars, one over the gas tank, one in a rear fender basket and one in a pack basket on my back along with the traps, trapline tools, lures, etc. The good 'ol days! Then when i was sixteen I graduated to a 1952 Willys Jeep station wagon, could really haul the traps and animals then. This also remind me that we all think we need a 4 X 4 truck these days but when I was a kid my Dad had a 1942 Mercury he trapped with. It may have been a big car for the times but by today's standards it was the size of a compact car. I seen Dad pile 21 coyotes into that car with rear seats taken out, the trunk, seven smaller coyote would fit between the grill and the radiator and the remainder went into a wooden box hauled on car top carriers. The traps were always carried on top of the car in the wooden box, neatly placed in the box with the grapple hooks of each trap hooked over the sides of the box. Otherwise the rough roads would bounce the traps around and the grapples and extra cahin would all be tangled together...what a mess to straighten out! Asa

Empty Quiver · « **Reply #15 on:** July 29, 2009, 11:45:06 AM »

A 67 mustang, GT soon replaced with a '75 IH Scout. This was back in the day, how many remember selling coons for $25 each or $70 for Fox and Coyote. Shame I was so poor at trapping then. I was still able to keep myself in gas and beer though.

Bogmaster · « **Reply #16 on:** July 29, 2009, 01:50:54 PM »

79 was the big year on rats and mink.Got $50.00 on one big male mink.In 81 averaged $50.00 on green coon,Average on coon was $30.00 for many years.
In the mid 60's my first mink brought 15.00. Rats were 35 to 45 cents.
1990 averaged 97 cents on rats , have also sold put up beaver for less than $5.00 a pop.
Ups and downs are sure nothing new.
Tom

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #17 on:** July 29, 2009, 02:46:27 PM »

I remember back in the late 1940's when beaver were averaging over $100.00. By today's standards that would likely be the equivalent of $500.00 per beaver. How would 'ya like that Tom? We were spending the Winter in Florida and when my Dad heard about those prices we come rushing home quickly in March to trap beaver.

Bogmaster · « **Reply #18 on:** July 29, 2009, 06:39:50 PM »

Asa, if beaver were that high,I would be setting pretty.I can imagine beaver lure sales would also be through the roof.
But instead--lol.
Tom

AtlLaw · « **Reply #19 on:** July 30, 2009, 05:09:41 PM »

Quote from: Bogmaster on July 29, 2009, 01:50:54 PM

In the mid 60's my first mink brought 15.00. Rats were 35 to 45 cents.

As I remember that was about what they were in the late 50's and early 60's also. $:-\$ Never did get a mink though...

and we ran the 'coons with dogs!

camofry · « **Reply #20 on:** August 05, 2009, 04:52:29 AM »

Mine is a 99 Ford Explorer

hsif · « **Reply #21 on:** August 07, 2009, 03:31:53 AM »

First motorized vehical was 1965 Buick Skylark. Drove it across rivers and through fields. When I finally sold it milage was over 140,000. Sounds like normal today but at that time cars didn't last nearly as long.

Arier Blut · « **Reply #22 on:** September 30, 2009, 02:55:02 AM »

Well I broke down and got a new rig. My jeep got sold to a collector, I didn't realize how much those old things were worth today. Here's the new one. Well 20 years newer anyway. It has more power and is a whole lot better with traction than the jeep was. I can go in the swamps now and even up in the mountains. The jeep would do neither, I had to do them afoot. So I guess now I'll get fatter and lazier.

Bogmaster · « **Reply #23 on:** September 30, 2009, 05:07:20 AM »

Looks nice.But then to me right now--anything that runs and could haul a boat looks nice--lol.
Tom

Empty Quiver · « **Reply #24 on:** September 30, 2009, 07:07:19 AM »

Old Scout? Where did all that sheet metal come from? Mine looked MUCH worse in 1981 than that one. I was always happy with how game that old Scout was. It was a very rare thing to have a Jeep leave me behind somewear, left many of them shaking there heads in disbelief.

Open bed will be a good thing as well I would say.

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #25 on:** October 01, 2009, 12:43:37 PM »

I trapped with a 1978 International Scout Traveler 345 V-8, the one with the longer body for 15 years before the body rusted out. Best, most dependable woods vehicle I ever had and was in excellent mechanical shape yet when I got rid of it. Other than general maintenance I never had to replace a part in 15 years of running rough country. It was nearly impossible to get it stuck in mud or snow with the 4 WD and posi-tractions. Asa

Arier Blut · « **Reply #26 on:** October 02, 2009, 04:25:44 AM »

Yes it's a 1965 scout. It was an army vehicle. It has 23,118 miles documented by motorpool records. Even had the build sheet from IH in the glove box. Has posi loks front and rear. The previous owner bought it in 2005 from an army base in AZ. Had been in a bunker since 1971. No rust except between the leaves of the springs (full chassis paint). The PO put 15 miles on it since the brake lines were chewed on and he didn't have any mechanical ability. He was driving it on one brake. He wanted a jeep so I talked him into $1300 for it and a spare motor/trans/transfer still in a crate the army sold him with it. I am pretty tight with money but glad I didn't pass this one over.
I picked up another top and chopped it down to a cab and made the roll bar for the steep mountain trails. I have the original full top and the roll bar will fit inside after I put a little lift on the body. I just didn't figure I wanted to smell dead carcasses in there with me.

Empty Quiver · « **Reply #27 on:** October 02, 2009, 06:05:51 AM »

You stole that. I'M TELLIN'. Won't win any beauty contests, but you won't be disappointed. No way you will lose any money no matter how long you keep her.

The dead carcasses just add ambiance. As I recall they drive the pretty girls crazy.

cottonjonas · « **Reply #28 on:** October 04, 2009, 01:42:56 PM »

heres what i'll be trapping out of this winter '78 chevy

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #29 on:** October 06, 2009, 08:01:20 AM »

One time I had a new 77 Chevy 4WD, 3/4 ton with automatic hubs that stayed in 4WD up to 30 miles per hour before kicking out. The truck would only get 10.5 miles per gallon on the highway with a tail wind and got 4 to 4.5 mpg running a trapline. Got rid of that for a 78 Scout that would get about 12 to 13 mpg on trapline roads. Asa