WE SHIP! Maine Round Wood LOBSTER TRAP crab pot wooden tiki lake beach Cape Cod

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First, a word about shipping:
We know the shipping on these heah traps is terrible wicked expensive since they all charge by how big the box is, which is why we use
FedEx and UPS
which are
-50
cheapah than US Post Office. If you can't find a shipping cost with FedEx and UPS,
we'll be happy to give you a quote; just send us your ZIP code
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Second, a word about buoys:
some buoys that you buy from us will fit inside the trap,
and ship for FREE!
Ask me which ones!
FREE SHIPPING  BUOYS IS LIKE GETTING a bunch
FREE
!
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Rare old wooden
"
Round"
lobster trap
hand made
!
20+ pounds of oak laths and netting!
The buoys in the first picture are
NOT INCLUDED.
We ahh wuhkin hahhd to clean out Grandfahthahh's barn.
Ayuh
, we really do talk this way.
He fished foah lobstahs right aftahh World War II
(25 cents a pound then!)
up until he got too old to haul traps by hand when he was 90.
When he and fathahh wuh kids, they often had to eat lobstah 3-4 times a week! It cost moah to buy hamburg than he got paid for lobstah!
This trap might have a few minor injuries, maybe a nail missing heah or theyah, but you prolly do too, if you ahh that old!
Back in the day, everyone built their own,
but some lobstermen built "square" traps,
some built "round (top)" traps.
Each swore
his
style "fished" better!
Check out my other items!
Lots of Buoys this week
This is an actual working trap that was Grandfathah's and he built it right heahh at home in Maine
Not a reproduction made in Chiner
or Iower or Wisconsin!
This was made
by hand
. This was actually used to trap lobsters here in Maine, so you will find the wood worn, and the nails rusty. Theyah might be a few missing or loose laths, but it is very sound, almost like the day it was made.
Back then, you didn't buy a ready-made trap, you built youah own, ovah the wintah from oak laths that you sawed youahself! He liked the curved traps with "bows" that were steam bent, but all the traps wuh put togethah with "trap nails", most of which ahh still in place on this trap.
The lobstah men also knitted their own "heads" (netting) but moah likely had "momma" do that ovah the wintah :>}
Lobstahmen back then weren't cheap, they wuhh "flinty"
This trap even has the "hatch" where the lobsterman put the bait in, and hopefully took out the lobster he caught
(see pitchah #8, 9), and the "latch" that kept the hatch from opening (see pitchah #7).
Look close and
you can see the "hoops" (pics 8-9) that keep the netting open so the lobstah can get into the trap (what we call "funny eyes").
Trap measures 32 inches long, 24 deep and 15 1/2 inches high
This will look real nice on youah porch
(you can leave it outside all the time...it sat at the bottom of the ocean all summah, and on the shore all wintah!)
or nautical theme room
or your seafood restaurant
with all the buoys you get from LobstahLou!
If you buy the trap, I'll send you a picture of grandfather in his boat!
If you ahh comin to Maine this summah
you can stop by and pick it up free
but shipping it might be cheapah than driving!
Check my 100% feedback with all the Thank-You's!
And thanks to all owah custamahs foah theyah nice wuhds and thoughts.
Thanks foah lookin and good luck.
Gotta go pahk the cahh in the yahd.