The Spanish Windlass Spear Trap

Depending on your locality, primitive traps may be illegal to use unless you are in a survival situation so build and dismantle as with most trapping mechanisms. When using with smaller game you should use the Y stick trick to increase the sensitivity of the trigger and remember to funnel your prey in.

[@armageddonready4071]

When your in a survival situation, dropping LARGE game with little effort is ESSENTIAL. Checking trap line for rabbits twice daily will result in deteriorating gains. Yes, it’s more work to set up the fencing to guide them into the trap, but eventually you will need to DISABLE the trap because your larder is full. Good job Cody, keep up the good information. Semper fi earthlings.

[@morrismonet3554]

Snares attached to a heavy drag are a much better tool for harvesting large game. Why mess with rabbits?

[@Chevalier_knight]

Diversify your gains you dont want to target large game and miss enough small game to keep you alive.

[@armageddonready4071]

Trap lines take a lot of energy to setup and maintain. If they are producing enough small game to justify the energy use, then sure. I’ve noticed, it depends on the terrain, in the mountains, large game traps are your best bet. Moving around on relatively level terrain, you can burn less energy. In the mountains, the large game all follow the same trails and traps need to be dismantled because a single person can’t harvest and use the amount of meat larger trap provide. It’s almost not fair after you learn game movement.

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

In a realistic survival situation, food is among your lowest priorities. A human being can go for weeks without food. Shelter, water, navigation, and rescue are far higher priorities.

[@armageddonready4071]

@@ShadeSlayer1911 all those things are the easiest things to do. Feeding yourself you can graze as you go, on bugs, seeds, and worms, if you have to. The reality is, filling your stomach will make everything easier. WITHOUT FOOD YOUR BRAIN WILL CEASE TO FUNCTION. Also not every goes to the bush with an extra Dunlop tire on their ass. Some people need to eat something every day or we get the shakes like an old alcoholic. Fat just FEEL hungry, but don’t suffer the actual physical side effects, because fatties DO HAVE WEEKS of FOOD STORED up in their ass. Most Americans think without your five meals a day your going to just die of starvation,

[@Dani-it5sy]

Really good stuff. The way you also show tricks and detailed stuff to actually make it work. Some channels are so fake and you try the stuff in real time and it seems 100 times more difficult than it looked in the video. This was excellent. Keep it up 🤩

[@pauljs75]

These are fairly neat for not needing a lot of space, provided you have the right size trees or scrub brush and enough cordage. However it's not to trifle with, if it has enough tension to put a hole in some critter it can do the same to you. A similar setup with the tensioned lever in a pulling configuration will work for a snare type trap or as the hooking jig for fishing, so it's not a bad thing to learn in terms of versatility.

[@MrBottlecapBill]

Don't worry there's really not much power in this lol. Especially with a spike of such large diameter. It will hurt like hell but I doubt it will do much more than break the skin. The problem is the energy will also push the target away at the same time so only a portion of it will to go into the animal or you. That wide spike will also create a lot of drag making it even less deadly.

[@Cj-yw8cs]

Me think's you underestimate the power that can be stored in the ropes

[@Mega_penetrator228UltraPower]

​@@Cj-yw8csя думаю, ты переоцениваешь остроту и прочность древесины. В лучшем случае такая ловушка может просто пнуть какого-нибудь ежа, но не более.

[@Tagerrun]

@@MrBottlecapBilldoesn’t that depend on the size of the target? A human is heavy enough to. It get pushed back and have it go right into your shin not just break it. A broken leg in the woods could be deadly.

[@Tagerrun]

@@Mega_penetrator228UltraPowerwood is so much stronger than human skin tissue and muscle? I’ve seen trees go through people with some wind. So tension on ropes could definitely do it.

[@AtalaiaPrepper]

I've seen several such traps on KZbin, but I confess that this version shown in your video, with this trigger system, was very good and effective. Hug from Brazil

[@CavemanCody]

I've seen a few myself. One of my personal complaints was not showing a close up of the trigger. The Y stick trick I picked up recently is seldom shown.

[@SouthWestAdventuresview22]

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[@BuddyLee23]

I thought a Brazilian hug was a Mata Leão (rear naked choke)?

[@tiagooliveiradelucia4841]

As a Brazilian I can say that this kind of trap is illegal on our whole territory. If you used it here, you certainly commited a crime.

[@lostwizardcat9910]

@@tiagooliveiradelucia4841 dont be that guy.

[@aaizner847]

Cool trap, cool video. It's not "windless", though. It's "Windlass". A windlass is a rudimentary mechanism for tensioning rope. Thanks for the clip.

[@firedirewolf]

becoming more kobold by the day, thanks for the D&D inspiration. Yes, I know this is probably a 'go touch grass' channel, but I like making more diverse traps for D&D. Seeing how it smacks that stopper pole, I honestly have the idea that it could be a net that presses the victim to the wall and attempting to force the trap causes more bludgeoning till the tension is removed from a weight and pulley system. Though I may mess with the concept and using two strikers to actually make the net effect instead of just one. Which, upscaling it to actually use a counterbalance system would probably require some serious reworking too. Experimentations!! lol

[@benjamintherogue2421]

I have to say, I thought of this same application for learning about all of these traps. I would also recommend Ragnar Benson's "Mantrapping". If you can find it.

[@strings1586]

Nnnnneeeeeerrrrrrd

[@firedirewolf]

@@strings1586 could say it is better boyscout practice as they are essentially a pre military practice for living in the bush since that is most of what you would be doing in a trench, but that just seems a little grim and throwing people into battles of life and death is a little better when life isn't on the line

[@Scruffi]

This is EXACTLY why i’m watching this! Looking for game traps for a bunch of kobolds holed up in a cave in the hills north of a town. ]:)

[@SteveB-nx2uo]

excellent small game trap, probably the best ive seen. requiring a bit of rope is pretty minimal requirements, for a pretty deadly device. you could even produce a few of these professionally with modern materials for quite cheap. some paracord and some junk metal

[@mugnuz]

Well if you have that much rope almost every other trap is better

[@bbbruh8809]

Every other trap like which ones?

[@unwnme]

@@mugnuz I'm also interested.

[@absolutemattlad2701]

@@mugnuz What traps would you use with that much rope?

[@mugnuz]

@@absolutemattlad2701 basically any other trap with a sling and just use wood for tension... Or just tripping traps if u cant use small branches for that

[@oldsam775]

This would actually be a "windLASS." See the ever-handy Wikipedia: "An 1898 report to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations about an American vessel captured by a Spanish gunboat described the Spanish windlass as a torture device.[13] One of the captives' wrists were tied together. The captor then twisted a stick in the rope until it tightened and caused the man's wrists to swell."

[@SonsOfDeForest]

seeing as it does not require wind in order to operate, and it does not cause wind, it is in fact a windless windlass

[@aaizner847]

@@SonsOfDeForest Yes, and you drive a Windless Car, and eat a Windless Breakfast, etc.

[@Oligodendrocyte139]

@@SonsOfDeForestWindless windlass? Wiseass. 😂

[@blockededited8280]

Shove Wikipedia up your windyass.

[@johnswoodgadgets9819]

I have known about that trap my whole life. The few times I have actually set it, i just used a stick without a spike to smack a rabbit against the ground. We set them to strike almost flat against the ground by making the windings with a shorter stick, and then lashing the longer stick to it. Also, we called it an Irish Twist, not a Spanish Windlass. Maybe the Irish just modified it? The hardest part was getting the windings even enough to get it to swing in a straight arc. Sometimes you just had to trip it and see where it hit, and then put your trigger there. The advantage was you could set a lot of them in a short period of time.

[@sasquatchrosefarts]

I don't believe this type of trap would ever hold a rabbit. You used it? I've shot numerous rabbits with a bow and they always run. They don't die easily. If they aren't strongly pinned to the ground, and it doesn't cause an immediate kill, I can't ever see this holding them in one spot. They would run, and then you would not have meat. Even I it died later.

[@roymakescomics]

​@Sasquatch Rose Farts if a blunt force hits it on the head..it isn't running anywhere. I've seen these traps work.

[@johnswoodgadgets9819]

@@sasquatchrosefarts Nah, it won't hold 'em, sure enough. It is a kill trap. Like a big mouse trap. They don't move around much if they are dead, but they do move on down the trail if they are not. All you have is a bit of fur and a sprung trap. Not my first choice, just quick and easy.

[@szolanek]

I don't like the whole idea of the trap. Why did I watch it? ... Hmm, difficult times are coming. Let just say, for hungry polar bears.

[@roymakescomics]

@@szolanek that trap isn't going to work on a polar bear unless you scale it up 20x.. which will be incredibly difficult to calibrate and set by your lonesome..

[@JamesMedema]

Cody, you're a great teacher and set this technique so well. Keep them coming!

[@crushmonkey801]

Good description and instruction of a Windlass Mechanism trap. 'Windless' = "Without Wind" ;)

[@shadesmarerik4112]

ye, i clicked the video, because i wanted to know why traps so often utilized the wind, which was suggested by emphasizing that this trap would be windless

[@patrickbodine1300]

Windlass. The correct spelling of the term.

[@leebrown964]

Great video and this Guy presented like a Real Professional down and Dirty simple. Thanks for the Video

[@yorkshire_saddlehunter184]

This has to be the best most efficient trap one could set. It's bulletproof 😁 good tutorial Cody 💯

[@antaress8128]

Did you try it?

[@mugnuz]

If you have that much rope you can set three traps that are much better...

[@poop464]

@@mugnuz Right? Like even the most simple snare traps are 10x better than this.

[@davidaa2521]

You see people making/setting these traps, I'd like to see some critters that were caught in them.

[@dads_diy]

The killing stick is the most important part of this video lmao I love it. “The kill stick”

[@brentbonham4398]

Thank you for adding to my outdoor survival knowledge.

[@djmeyer5563]

SO much easier than So many other styles. Thank you!

[@SouthWestAdventuresview22]

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[@Yggdra666]

Just got out on probation and I wanted to say that this works flawlessly.

[@stevea.8816]

Been watching all the vids l dont comment all the time because l spend more time thinking what to say than learning, all of your teachings are great, please keep it up. Thank you.

[@CavemanCody]

Thank you for following. Comments are great but so are views. 👍👍

[@SouthWestAdventuresview22]

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[@DonaldPerkins-gs4hw]

Lunch and a great lesson in simple, basic physics. How cool is that! 😎

[@shanetheninja101]

The type of injury this would caused is referred to as sharp force trauma just for the record.. with a rock attached, then it would be blunt force trauma.. never the less, very nice vid!

[@Frostshokula]

Was looking for this soon as he said “blunt force” and showed a spike.

[@Skully317]

Very cool, definitely will be using this one on the trapline this winter!!

[@IMBrute-ir7gz]

I think it would be more helpful to bait it and set up a trail camera nearby to see if this thing actually works, and if not, why not. I've watched plenty of these "primitive trap" videos and nobody ever catches anything.

[@johnnymcblaze]

That would get flagged for sure, as it should be. If you're killing for food that's one thing, but killing for likes or subscribers is subhuman. And it would be for likes and subscribers, since the subhumans who like seeing small things in pain would flock to this channel.

[@mvmusic8467]

You can't just kill animals in youtube videos and expect the video to still be monetized.... The guy has to make a living, if he does what you suggest he'll be making no money whatsoever and would probably be constantly fighting to keep his video's up.

[@alvinfry]

That bear is wearing people clothes.

[@3pipper]

Excellent tool I use a rock as well as a spike (use three smaller ones in a line) depending on what I am going after… have used it set up parallel to the ground when hmmm being tracked myself, may not have time to fashion a spike but always can find nice rocks and they hurt like hell in the shins / ankles / knees…luv your stuff brings back memories and a tear or two… keep it up…

[@Mike-tf9rx]

Very nice! Simple and effective. Thanks.

[@chuckfunderburk7964]

Excellent job Sir. I've seen several windless traps but I like this set much. Thanks! Chuck

[@paullangford8179]

No wind?

[@PogueMahone1]

​@@paullangford8179 No schooling.

[@Swa068]

This video was made really well. Seems like you are getting use to the whole video making thing. Good Job!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@SouthWestAdventuresview22]

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[@davin-hl4vk]

Thanks for sharing, can't wait to set one up & try it out. Seems to be an effective tool, requiring little effort to make, a tool I don't have to carry in my pack, can make on the fly, and most likely will provide me with some much needed calories.

[@juancarlosfernandez5442]

Muy buena trampa. Creo que mejoraría su eficacia si le colocáramos algo de peso en la cabeza del martillo, por ejemplo una piedra de tamaño medio. Ésto aumentaría su inercia y su energía en el golpe.

[@atlantic_love]

By the time you have one set up, eight seasons have changed.

[@Theactualcurrentsea]

I’ll be honest, saw the Vikings copy pony tail and I was about to send this video off into oblivion, but you proved me wrong man. It was a good looking trap, and pretty well taught. Thank you and thumbs up.

[@shadesmarerik4112]

superficiality and judging someone by the looks has never been a good idea and will never be.

[@AtMyShed]

This is an awesome simple trap. Thanks for this!

[@SouthWestAdventuresview22]

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[@douglashill6125]

great presentation. Simple but effective design. Thank you.

[@controversialhunter8032]

My apologies, Cody I subscribed over a year ago. But I'm subscribed to lots of channels. Anyway this is only the 2nd time one of your videos actually popped up. So only the 2nd one I've seen. Notifications are on so not sure why I don't get more of your videos. Today I'm binge watching. Great trap thank for sharing as always. God bless. Keep being you.

[@davidlee8551]

Excellent demonstration! Thank you.

[@shanewalker8607]

Just a note... if something requires a sharp point to enter the body of what you're trying to kill, then that isn't blunt force trauma. That's sharp force trauma. Also, final note, its windlass... not windless.

[@gordistador]

It can be blunt force, as it could just concentrate all the force onto a smaller area

[@shanewalker8607]

@Oskari Peurala if the blunt part of the stick manages to kill, then sure, the rabbit or whatever dies to blunt force trauma. But that isn't the point (no pun intended) of this mechanism. It's to forcefully impale a small creature with a sharpened stick. That's what this design attempts to accomplish.

[@user-tzzglsstle585e38]

@@gordistador So sword thrusts are blunt force trauma?

[@UnderseaCaveman]

Handy, thanks.....never know when that trap could produce a needed meal.

[@SouthWestAdventuresview22]

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[@basstard4639]

Always interesting to see traps made. Learn something everytime

[@ROBSwank-pm1vd]

Very cool survival trap !! Good stuff !

[@qinarizonaful]

One other advantage is that once the trap is set in motion, numerous other overhead or deadfall traps could be kinetically triggered to increase the likelyhood of a kill! This could be a decoy too... the noise of the trap to the right for example could would make a person turn their head to the right while the unseen secondary trap attacked them from the left!

[@HansVanIngelgom]

Excellent idea. Also it could be used to press a button, setting off a claymore mine or other explosive..

[@pappysproductions]

"A person" 😅

[@Zalethon]

@@pappysproductions That's prepper culture for you

[@TiocfaidhArLa34]

just use punji stakes. far simpler. this trap is for hunting animals to eat not people to kill.

[@blockededited8280]

Why are you wanting to kill humans with one of these?

[@hbushnell]

For this content to be recommended to me means that I’ve been watching too much Rust trap base content 😂. Fascinating!

[@drsmartypants1795]

Simple but effective---Fantastic video!!!

[@SouthWestAdventuresview22]

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[@orrfamily641]

Good grief, Windless/Windlass, Blunt Force trauma/Spike force Trauma. If I'm doing any survival tactic's in the woods I don't think I'm going to have a Webster Dictionary to consult. But there are those who will always nick pick .

[@andrewcochrane1977]

The trap is simple and effective...good job. But the most impressive thing on this video is that handsome tupé. It looks amazing and you wear it well brother!

[@gritklein345]

Well done, young man 👨👏👍 Thank you for what you share, and you deserve a bigger audience 😉

[@SouthWestAdventuresview22]

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[@SondreTehReaper]

very informative and easy to follow. Was also quite interesting to watch

[@standingbear998]

simple. I have doubts that this is going to kill most of the time on the spot? I would guess a lot of wounded animals getting away and suffering.

[@VWgrinch]

Great video. Right to the point and well explained.

[@steviewonder8624]

Seems easy and very effective.!! Great stuff.

[@irish1209]

Great video! Thanks! Keep them coming back

[@Tood1968]

Now show me who you caught in this trap.🤔

[@noscreadur]

Him: "I feel like I havent seen the sun in a month". People in the UK: "You see the sun every month?"

[@bigb0r3]

It would have been great to see it actually catch an animal.

[@robohalloran3614]

Did anyone here ever catch something using this method?

[@jamescoull7402]

Nice video. Thanks for the knowledge. It may come in handy one day. Peace

[@halomerc5423]

Fun fact! Blunt force trauma is using blunt objects which means not spiked, pointed, bladed, ect ect

[@captdinglehopper]

Utilizing the potential scare element and a miss, a spring snare on the outlet side of those two trees would be and excellent opportunity to utilize the potential for the spike stick missing and scaring the prey through the two trees, little wire and a sampling in the proximity. Thoughts?

[@dads_diy]

Yes I would definitely run this on a line with a backup snare between set ups

[@scottsmith6643]

Very cool. I may make one this weekend. Thanks!

[@cdemille12]

This could be used for Snares too without the need for a Spring Pole, pretty genius!

[@WildManDanWMD]

Extremely easy and efficient. I wonder if a barb on the stinger would be a good mod?

[@carledinger3422]

The method of the Spanish windlass can be used for a hundred different things. Clamping a long glue joint to pulling a car out of a ditch.

[@chamoochannel4895]

One of the best trap I seen on KZbin for now the rest are not so good

[@coreopolis]

Cool trap. I think that’s windlass btw, not windless.

[@UguysRnuts]

You're correct.

[@MLFreese]

Wow, you can really see the trees pull together and flex like the limbs of a crossbow. Does it matter much what types of trees you use?

[@badjaeaux]

this is why the jungle is dangerous, you never know what your crazy ancestor left for you to find out

[@goodcitizen3780]

This is a good take on the trap

[@Unknown-hm7qx]

I'm imagining you put the bait between the Y stick and the base trigger stick, that way the animal has to activate the mechanism to get the bait, instead of just setting it off by chance

[@antonhinkel3828]

Just great 👍🏻 Thanks you from my stomach and greetings from Austria 🇦🇹

[@adamb89]

A lot of these kind of traps were used in Vietnam actually. They'd coat the spikes with feces to make the wounds septic as well.

[@jacobyone883]

Awesome video man keep it up

[@pdloder]

I think you've got 'the wrong end of the stick' when it comes to "blunt force trauma".

[@A_very_tinly_can]

Sweet now I can set up a bunch of vietcong traps in my local forest sanctuary

[@invictus3598]

Simple and effective! I like it!

[@BurtGummer85]

Seems like a very good method. Thanks

[@davidmeister8380]

I consider a good trap, a trap that catches the animal without hurting it. You should do the thirty work with your hands, as clean as possible. So the Food will also be as fresh as possible.

[@JJones-cl4dm]

I'm guaranteed getting a spike in my arm trying this while stoned.

[@nicksims9150]

Coolest trap I've seen. Ty for sharing

[@Dead_Goat]

This is more effective you use the tree as the funnel. You place the trigger in a spot that activates when they walk through the funnel.

[@Steve-Jody]

Any trail cameras showing the trigger activated?

[@yogidemis8513]

This is good knowledge to learn, never know if you might need to use this type of trap for survival. (Knowledge is Power)

[@seanfinkel9621]

Looks better than the figure 4 trap. Thank you ! Im hungry !

[@edwardcave1947]

Thanks for the lesson. Your using part of my nickname, Caveman

[@joselugo9973]

If some kid comes along and gets hurt with this trap, YOU will be responsible.

[@Mr.h3nt1]

This is the first trap I actually understand this is super interesting

[@astronautdolphindetective6908]

if you put a stick in between the trees higher you will get more energy out of the winding because its not pulling the trees togeather after that

[@spiritsurvival645]

Definitely some good info, thanks Cody!

[@defaultset]

Videos like these make me wonder what youtube would’ve been like in the medieval ages. I’d think it would just contain a bunch of smithing, archery, and craftsmanship tutorials, nobles blogging, peasants doing meme videos or posting hate videos against said nobles, hot girl from brothel onlyfans for 10 gold a month.

[@personanongrata2045]

Awesome man thank you. That’s a very effective trap you could setup completely in a half hour As far as odds of getting an animal a day… how many do you think you’d need? 6 or more?

[@blujazzfly]

always good info,....thank you sir !!!

[@brettfoster6786]

Excellent. This brings back memories. First blood 🩸. Rambo .

[@dukeman7595]

I like it, appears effective and simple to make..

[@cameronmccoy5051]

Spikes don't cause blunt force trauma, they cause sharp force trauma. Decent trap though. Just be careful you size it properly.

[@user-pw8en3rn6y]

Видео достаточно познавательное, и получать знания по устройству подобных ловушек из подручных средств это всегда очень интересно. Они могут пригодиться при выживании в экстремальных условиях. Но думаю, что было бы совсем не лишним, если бы в этом видео была паказана работа ловушки в реальных условиях. Поэтому этот подробный обзор - всего лишь теория никак не подкреплённая практикой.

[@phillipdavis1650]

I'm digging the Eddie Munster werewolf look

[@davo8802]

Neighbors want steal my newspaper no more.

[@rtoguidver3651]

All you're going to get is raccoons or possums.

[@guysolis5843]

Interesting and well done video..I would imagine creating a 3 prong spike...

[@TwoWheelsLangley]

Stabbing is not “blunt force trauma”. Good video though and got a thumbs up.

[@kalvinbeuerlein7828]

I have a student trying to recreate this for a wilderness class. Does anyone know if/which indigenous peoples used these?