Guillotine Trap Door Design

The guillotine door raises up to create an opening into your trap and falls straight down when it s activated.

Guillotine trap door design.

We have been asked to explain how a guillotine hog trap door works. Guillotine drop head gate on corral trap. The cost for this gate vs. Modified gate design 8 wide door for single door trap.

Now when it comes to the actual trap imagine a guillotine. This version simply turns a full sheet of plywood sideways to make an even wider doorway. Therefore it is extremely important that the trap be strategically baited to insure that most if not all of the pigs in a sounder have entered the trap. Photo courtesy of texas agrilife extension.

Door designs include the guillotine drop door spring swing door and rooter lifter door. Rooter lifter door modifications rooter lifter doors are a. Guillotine or drop style doors are called single catch doors because once the trap has sprung that is the door has closed no more animals can enter the trap until it is manually reset. Rooter lifting head gate on box trap.

The door is essentially the blade of the guillotine supported by a rope and two pulleys. I personally prefer the guillotine door as it generally has a bigger opening and it is positively closed with an active latch to prevent pigs from rooting. One drawback of guillotine gates is that they do not allow additional pigs to enter once the trap has been triggered. The 4 wide guillotine gate detailed previously is slightly higher because of additional.

By kirk dekalb new arrival. This is not a continuous trapping door once it s closed it s closed until you come and manually open it or reset it. Although most trap styles are derivatives of the basic corral or box designs several modifications can be made to trap doors. Connected to the 2 4 is the first pulley.

The rooter lifter door can be modified to increase capture rate. The frame built for the door is roughly six feet tall so we used two eight foot fence posts buried two feet into the ground and a 2 4 across the top. Essentially there is a trigger or trip wire that releases a door to fall down similar to. Detailed design including trigger of two gate guillotine style repeating corral hog trap for texas wild pig eradication.

Guillotine or sliding drop gates use a trip wire to trigger the door to fall.