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Re: Handforged mountain man traps and trade axes
[Re: cascade]
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06/28/14 11:07 PM
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Has anyone on TM forged a double long spring???
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Re: Handforged mountain man traps and trade axes
[Re: cascade]
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06/29/14 12:24 PM
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MTplainsman
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I have such an interest in old school hardware like this, and I definitely dig anything to do with our trapping roots. I am a huge fan of the Fur Trade era and I would go overboard collecting it, if I didn't stop myself! I have a display setup with old blankets, buff robe, trunk, traps, flintlock, trade beads, old bottles, whiskey and powder kegs etc. etc. etc. Though I do not have a digital camera working at the moment, all I could find is two old trap pics of a couple I have. I was starting to put fur trade stuff on a shelf to clean before I put in my display, and just snapped a pic of the two common style of beaver traps back in the day. Sorry for the non detailed, terrible pics, but it's all I got right now.  
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Re: Handforged mountain man traps and trade axes
[Re: cascade]
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07/01/14 09:59 PM
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amazing finds! I am really enjoying this thread!
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Re: Handforged mountain man traps and trade axes
[Re: cascade]
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07/19/14 04:59 PM
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This is great! Really interesting. Out of curiosity, does it look like the chains on some of the hand forged traps are forged too? Or maybe purchased?
Thanks,
Cody
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Re: Handforged mountain man traps and trade axes
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BigBob
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The spike ones are called "Picaroons" and were used to drag/haul logs around.
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Re: Handforged mountain man traps and trade axes
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07/20/14 03:45 PM
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MTplainsman
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This is great! Really interesting. Out of curiosity, does it look like the chains on some of the hand forged traps are forged too? Or maybe purchased?
Thanks,
Cody At the time period that most of these old beaver and bear traps were made (late 1700s to early 1800s) there was little mass production of them. Most traps were forged and assembled one at a time in small farm or factory shops, we're they forged there own chains as well. Some of these old forged traps you see these days, may have had a machined chain added to them at one point in time, but are not original.
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Re: Handforged mountain man traps and trade axes
[Re: cascade]
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07/20/14 03:56 PM
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Cody H...
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Out of curiosity, how do you date them?
Cody H.
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