hey guys we're out here with Tyler and myself obviously and we're going to be doing some trap making so stay tuned all right so basically we're sitting right here on an on a natural trail a game trail what I've found here is if you can get a good choke point find a good choke point with a nice vent remix to it then you've got a good spot for a trap we're going to clear this out a little bit basically the path nothing major everybody bust it off where I was sitting basically you want it to you don't want to mess up the area too much with your sense kind of have to a little bit you want to make sure that there's a clear path and then the the brush that you take off is put to the side of wherever that paths going to be that way it kind of channels the animals right to where you're going to set your traffic there is the power for my trap I basically just trim the quake and aspirin and cleared it so it can click up into the air pick up my rabbit know if I can stick a stick in this ground it's pretty frozen which means I may have to just use I'm just going to use this one over here so if you don't have a stick if they're if the grounds too frozen to put something into it just chop a little tree off ideally I would like you to be on this side but I can put it on that side because there's already a tree right there and this trap was coming from the spring is coming from from this side over here yep so basically the way that this is going to work is I'm going to put a snare right here and on either side I put a trigger so that when that snare is grabbed the trigger is pulled which releases the tree and pulls the whole system into the air since I don't really have a tree on this side which would be ideally we can walk around all day long just use what we have I'm going to use this guy right here that gives me another little piece of brush and i can lay right here it's going to funnel the animal in the direction I'm going to go that's basically it animals are lazy rabbits are lazy just like people uh-huh walk right around here and go into my snare they're gonna take the easiest path absolutely okay for this basically what I'm going to do cut a notch okay just cut a notch in there let me start out with a salt here and we'll finish with that speed us up a little bit on this level now this for me that saw works great this is where the bahco laplander comes in because it's not as aggressive so it's a little easier cutting out smaller cuts that make sense then with that now carve this up to that line that I made essentially it's a level spot for the tree to hold on so when it pops out it'll pull up so now I can use the other half of this tree get a part of this tree and this is where I'm going to connect to my 550 cord on to and you can whip these this type of a snare up in minutes and then I'll adjust the angle of this a little bit later once I know how grippy it is okay now my ropes going to get tied to this so I'm just going to make it a little groove so that I can slip the rope enough so when you put this together let me get a side shot of that it's not going to initially fit which is fine but what you need to do is just carve it until it does so I need to take the material off of here and move it in what I can initially do is just charge per charge cut more up here see how I'll get closer and then cut the bottom off up here you're just going to angle that bottom to match yep and the technique is aim it the opposite direction of your hand put it against your body this way you're gonna cut your thumbs don't lose your Boy Scout whittling card just cover it cut it that way all right so that now that makes a little bit of a fool there and I need to clear this top up a little bit right here too as well there's a lot of control and a lot of power that comes from that cutting technique so there we go I hope I get the angle on this one correct just in the middle snap loose aim this up a little bit higher I already know right now that it's not going to grab up and doesn't have directly straight up pull so we're con talking about this earlier watching youtube video specifically for this type of information is a great way to start yeah but really getting out here and doing it is where the real lessons are going to be taught and when I first learned this I saw it done a flat perfectly level but then learning through doing it I found out that if you kind of make a little point right here when needed it'll grip it better and then if you need it to be more sensitive to shave the point down which we'll do here a little bit that kind of gives me my good little point there we go now it's gripping it I want to when I pull up on it it needs to pull on I need to grip it and then I'll hook my string here so when it pulls that way the tree will pull up into the air now the point you're talking about if I change the camera right here so let me move that one uh-huh you're talking about this point that's right right here yeah we're going to talk about so basically I cut it level this way and then I cut it at this angle cut it at this angle and then shaved up back underneath it a little bit you kind of created a V basically a little V notch with a little nub yeah I can kind of see it behind the blade right there's a little nub and that little nub is going to grab onto this piece if you need to you can carve a little hole right here for it to grip the problem is if it grips too well the snare won't let it go so you want to grip just enough that when a tree is pulling up like this you can see me pulling on it I'm not going to go anywhere but when the snare grabs down here then pulls it away then it grabs and pulls a whole snare up that's basically what we're looking for is that little lock right there so I've got this quickie hold down here you only need a little short distance between your trigger and your quaky the shorter the better the reason is once this pulls all this is going to go in the air before the slack gets taken out of the wire and it's got to go about that high roughly before it's going to actually start tensioning the animal okay now ideally the animal will be a little bit tensioned already which is what triggers it but once it comes here it'll pull it up and I'll hang the animal just about here in the air roughly depending if you've got coyotes in the area you want a big tree you want it to be a good 6 feet in the air in the middle of the air not on the side otherwise you're not going to have an animal the next morning using 550 cord nice and bright so you can see it and I'm using trip wire here so you can't see it and if you use wire on the part that connects to the animal there's some vastly smaller probability of you losing the animal because a bit a hole in the string it's really hard to bite through wire some of the you get a pig or if you get some squirrels and stuff they will snap through string in seconds ok rabbits not so much of a worry but depending on what you're getting racoon is a really good example they'll bite right through strings I like to just hold this with my arm gives me the chance to use both of my hands ok I tied a hitch and I just put a loop in the back of would type of wood puppy hitch was the clove hitch I think don't ask me to remember the names I'm normally pretty good with it yes I tried to tie the clove hitch and I just run the string to the back of it now I've got a knot section guys so if you want to know how to tie the clove hitch just reference that so all I have to do it when we get a rabbit pull the string and walk away love the quick-release absolutely so that is going to hold on to my trigger right here now I got a little sneaky trick for tying a clove hitch this is from my days of growing up on a ranch and tying up a horse you just take it like this and twist it and in with that same hand twist it again there's your clove hitch now we teach the Boy Scouts the good thing about a clove hitch is it creates a lot of friction on both strings so it's nice and snug okay make sure that this is going to reach and there we see that it reaches now it holds itself just like that so now the last piece I need is to run a piece of wire from here over to the area that I'm going to catch throughout it so you're going to do the clove hitch yeah I like the clove hitch doesn't really matter just as long as it's on there you just want something to tie on there and stay yeah basically there we go so that's going to grip it like that kind of gives me you know measurement and it's right over here now all a snare is is just a little baby lasso so I want to be about that big around that's about the size of what I've got going through here that's I've measured a straight line from my snare my power engine and I've measured the size of the trap I'm trying to measure it with my fingers and I've added about from my pinky to my hand in distance and then I'm going to bend this until it snaps that extra piece of distance is basically so that I can tie that little loop so I do is you spin it and because it's metal it'll get hot and break itself there's a lot of ways to tie a loop a lot of people like to use the bowline I like to tie a figure eight I spent a lot of time mountaineering and it's just an easy knot for me um the time I spend climbing I'm a big fan of the figure eight figure eights a good knot it gets the job done so you took that line that the the wire that's running to the trigger and you put it through the figure 8 loop to create your larger loop yes just we did it through so now I've got a string that slides basically see how that slides like that the good thing about wires once it tension once it tensions up it creates kind of a 90-degree angle and it stays so what I need is a couple of little sticks nice branch right here now I'm going to put a point on this we can talk about another little quick technique you want three cuts one two three and that little point is going to be the most capable of going into the dirt especially when it's frozen okay so you put in that brunch there that I'm showing and then a couple little branches here and then this guy right here and careful that we don't trigger it while we're playing with it good thing about wire too is you can bend it to the position that you want to stay in which is really nice okay so I put this if you imagine feet here and a head here that's the height that you want it to be okay if you know that there's water this direction and it's late in the afternoon you want to put it so that this this wire will slide off in that direction because there's a higher probability of the animals coming down to water then there is four of them leaving the water because they weren't at the water when you walked by so if you have a little animal paths to water make the trap grab them as you're going towards the water all right should we try it out let's try it out so here's what we're going to do here's this little wire probably can't see it it is connected all over here to the trigger which is connected to the power supply so on this trigger gets pulled by that wire it'll pull so if I get an animal that's walking through scrapes it off and as they tighten it up it'll pull on the the trap and hangs the wire just like that so where is it this is my hanging down there basically that's cool and that way if it's hanging up in the air it's more efficient to the animal doesn't suffer and it's a good way to keep it away from predators most of the time Tyler you've got a youtube channel what you've been doing with it well a lot of my stuff is teasers for bigger channels that I do and a lot of my stuff lately has been with an iPhone I basically I have a cool new trick and I drop it on my channel so it's not a lot of editing but I'm hoping to change that in the future get some intros and a little more detail that way I can teach a little more and answer a lot of the questions that I get from the videos I do with other channels give them some love guys while I don't think of my channel is a big channel I remember just starting out as well so go over there check it out see see if you like it subscribe if you want and my channel name is T Jack alright guys there's a quick look at that trap very fun very cool when I was young watching Return of the Jedi or other movies like that that had those type of traps when I was a little kid I always wondered how to do them so there's kind of look at it lots of fun Tyler thanks much we appreciate it now standing we'll see you guys later