Traps and Triggers part 1

hey guys hey YouTube welcome back what we're going to do is we're going to start a whole new series today we're going to do a little mini series on primitive trapping triggers trip lines all those sorts of things we're going to start very basic and we're going to work our way up to the more complicated traps I will basically go through just about all the traps that I can possibly think are actually worthwhile and effective from things like the SAS handbook so we're going to work through them it'll be the first time for me to build a few of these I've done a lot of them anyways before but I'll just work through them one by one and we'll see if we can't get them all ticked off and I'll let's just know along the way what I'm learning about them to understand the components you can make traps combining them in different ways so let's get to it primitive traps and primitive trapping in general is pretty much illegal just about all over the world so it's really good to note right here that none of these traps are going to be used for catching animals you've got to be careful with these things traps are indiscriminate killers so using primitive traps the things that we're going to do here I do them purely for the therapeutic side of carving them putting them together seeing the functionality making them work knowing that I have that sort of tool in my mental toolbox I would stress right now that you only ever use these in a very life-or-death extreme situation they tend to follow one of or a combination of four principles with a primitive trap you either want a Mangal strangle dangle and occasionally tangle your prey okay so those are the four things we're looking to do Mangal drop something heavy on them mess them up strangle that's pretty self-explanatory dangle is when you strangle them but you also lift them up off the ground this is a good way to prevent them from chewing through your cordage ground and when we say dangle we don't mean that you need to lift them you know seven feet up you need to get their front paws off the ground to a place where they're incapable of getting turned around on themselves either loosening off that noose or actually getting their teeth into it and chewing themselves free tangle occasionally particularly like with fish or occasionally with birds you can catch them with a net this keeps them alive this tangles them up that's the way the tangle works strangle mangle dangle dangle four of those now when building these traps there are a couple of components that you basically want to understand once you've got your head around the components then like say before you can combine them in different fashions to turn out different traps or adapt them to your situation in your scenario most of the traps are going to work with are going to employ some sort of a snare okay so snare itself is one component and a snare is just simply a loop rope back on itself with a slippery knot or a looped knot around the main cord so that it chokes down tightens up the harder you struggle the more tightens up that's a snare you've got the trigger component the trigger component is the part that holds it all together on the finest of its edges and this trigger is what's going to pop apart and set off the spring-loaded snares now with snares you can either go extremely basic and hope for the animals just straight run into it that would be just an example of pure strangle then you can power your snare by an engine by engine in this case what I mean is some sort of a spring sapling this is where you're going to get dangled and strangle okay now a lifting or a powered engine snare is going to be more effective the engine as we just explained is the sapling now doesn't necessarily have to be a sapling if you don't have a sapling that you can bend down to power your spring you can also do it by tying heavy log to a piece a string passing that string up over a branch and back down when the trigger let's go the the heavy weight that you've placed on the string comes down it lifts it up towards the branch that you've suspended it on so an engine doesn't necessarily have to be a sapling it can be improvised windlass is also a version of an engine okay and we'll get into wind Lass's towards the end of it and one of the other ones that we're going to do in the series here is going to be dead falls dead falls employ a crushing action this is where you get your mangle you want to have your weight at least 5 times the weight of the animal you intend to catch deadfall traps don't necessarily work just by blunt-force they also can work by suffocation if you get just the heavy weight on the animal you can just stop it basically from breathing suffocated inside of your deadfall trap and it's going to do the same job if you're going to get the animal in the end so those are a couple of the very basic trap components that we're going to understand we're going to start with the very very easiest we're going to start with an l7 trigger which is going to be for the very most basic of spring-loaded snare traps it'll also work just as well on an automated fishing pole that in the place of having your snare loop you would have your fishing line to that and whenever the fish pulls at the l7 trigger let's go there sapling goes up sets the hook this is the most basic of traps it's the l7 I'm going to show it to you and then I'm going to take you through how we mean okay guys this right here is a finished l7 trigger switch okay this is exactly how it works this is your L now this is the number seven knotch so we've gone straight in here taking it down you see how that bears a resemblance to the number seven and the L hooks inside of it like this okay now this is the ground peg the seventh ground peg the L is your upwards hook and this little bit of a notch here is just where my string is going to attach when the weight is pulled up on it pulls against that bottom seven the L holds it in place when somebody or something pulls into the snare it releases these components this slides out and it allows it free up and the engine pulls it up I'll show you now really quickly how we do these notches and I'll put one together for you we'll have a look at it we'll set it off here's our 7 off Ehle and this is the seventh you've mated them up we see that they work now we're just going to find ourselves a little engine sapling and we're going to turn this seven knotch stick into it's already into a peg we're going to put this in the ground so we're going to have to sharpen the bottom end of it here and we're going to champ for off the top end so when we pound it in and pound it into the ground it doesn't split all apart on it that's enough to keep it from splitting out on us and the bottom end we're just going to turn into a peg so for the purposes of this video guys I've manufactured a little game trail here which I've done by just moving some of these some of the ground cover out of the way here which we're going to pretend is our is our game trail okay so obviously if you're going to set traps and you intend to catch stuff because you're dying and it's the only reason that you'd ever be using these then obviously you're going to set your traps where there's game right game trails you'll find those running through the woods and they're quite obvious now you've got to figure out what is running on them and adjust the size and orientation of your trap accordingly so in this case here what I've done is I've chosen a tiny little wee sapling off the side of my trail which I've made just for the purposes of it so my little sapling comes down just above my game trip so this is my manufactured game trail okay this is this little dark strip here is where it's going to go my sapling when pulled over comes just down see my thumb here it's just down over top of that so we're going to set our trap off to the side we're going to do our best to avoid actually trampling or walking on to the trail at any point and we'll leave it as clean as possible we're going to hammer that down into there so it's nice and solid it's going to be at least strong enough to catch that tree we're going to start but just tying it up off to the end of this do a clove hitch we're going to just secure the clove hitch with one half hitch to prevent it from running away opening up on us that's that next we've got our L now come down here and we're going to see how much we need to pull down on this L that's about right right there so we're going to put a clove hitch in that same thing right here there we go that's holding together let's get you in here so here's our l7 clove hitch there string running up to our sapling tied off of the clove hitch backed up of the half hitch up here and the excess of this string you see it's just off to the side of our game trail here now the excess of the string we're going to put the loop in and we're just going to suspend that up out in front of the trail we'll do that for you and we'll set it off this is our l7 spring trap over here we've got our noose which is sitting directly over the game trail at the appropriate height to catch rabbits you see it's facing forward so the rabbit says they hop along to jump in it go through it and it's just propped up by a couple Clips as they move they pull that off triggers the noose tightens it up lifts them up off the ground that's your basic l7 trigger trap sprung loaded okay guys now that we've got the l7 down pat let's adapt that l7 we can take the l7 trigger as we know it and we can make it work for two traps at the same time let's say we've got we want to double up our chances we've got two game trails coming out here pick the spot in the middle and I've made my I've made my peg have made my peg my seven notch peg is much taller and I've carved my L notch into the middle of this branch so I've flattened it off here and I've flattened it off on this face to make a 90 degree up in this corner that is the new L what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my string here coming down from my engine and I'm going to tie a Y and I'm going to attach it on this side so I'm going to rearrange you guys I'm going to pull this down I'll tie it up I will show you what it looks like and why it's better okay guys and girls this is our adapted l7 triggers and now we've got the same stick same sapling you still see it slashed up here it comes down but down here we've put a split in it and it's splitting off to the left and right we've got our much taller ground peg here which is our seven notch and our L knotch part of this trigger instead of being an upright vertical stick there's a horizontal stick that's been flattened off 90 degrees on the top and on the side and that's hooking in the exact same way just underneath the little rib of that and that allows us to have a bit of a spreader bar so we've got our two game trails in this case one going left one going right over here with our little bait thingy with our little upright in the middle and then we've got a noose hanging on each side now you might just have to work that open you know just a little tiny twig just to keep it propped open and facing oriented so that it's going to catch the rabbit now this one here obviously it's not sketching anything so it's set low sorry sorry it's set high would have to be a little bit lower to be effective but this way we can cover two different tracks we can either cover the one here going down the right or we can cover the one over here on the left with one trigger stick that's just sitting in there it's all under tension so when anything comes along in either direction from either side and gets into one of these things it's going to pull on the side of the stick it's going to pull it off out of its thing out of its notch it's going to trigger now obviously only one side is going to catch something at a time but you are doubling your chances so that's stuck on there pretty good that's lifting me up it's lifting the rabbit whatever if it's pulling it's struggling it's using all of this energy it's going to succumb to the suffocation to the strangling much faster so there it is that's a bit of an adaption that there is our adaption to the single l7 trigger trap two trails one trap with a crossbar two nooses

Channel: Robert Noel

Views: 258,563

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Keywords: bushcraft, primitive skils, primitive traps, L7 trigger, trapping, self reliance, deadfall, figure 4, toggles, outdoor skills, survival skills

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Length: 13min 43sec (823 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 14 2015