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.

[@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.

[@mace41canuck]

Dont matter if you understand what he meant.

[@aaizner847]

@mace41canuck Keep moving, genius. Leave language to the literate.

[@mace41canuck]

@@aaizner847 ok grammar cop ill leave the proper grammar free speech to the higher upper crustiness

[@aaizner847]

@mace41canuck totally. I'm the grammar police because I had to learn your language so I think you should also have to. Toodles.

[@mace41canuck]

@@aaizner847 the beauty of where i am from is we have slang in English and improper spelling or use in writing , However it is ok because the speech is free here and we can use it any way we like ..as long as its understood , surprised you didn’t learn that while learning English …

[@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 🤩

[@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,

[@leebrown964]

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

[@JamesMedema]

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

[@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.

[@nenadmarkovic7998]

Awesome. Great practical tips. Keep up with demonstrations. Never know when this will become most practical and crucial for some individuals in near distant future. Thank you.

[@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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[@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.

[@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

[@brentbonham4398]

Thank you for adding to my outdoor survival knowledge.

[@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.

[@jamescoull7402]

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

[@Mike-tf9rx]

Very nice! Simple and effective. Thanks.

[@Skully317]

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

[@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!

[@djmeyer5563]

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

[@SouthWestAdventuresview22]

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[@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.

[@davidlee8551]

Excellent demonstration! Thank you.

[@dads_diy]

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

[@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.

[@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. ]:)

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@davidaa2521]

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

[@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..

[@robertfleming387]

Great vid, clear, concise. Jury ( here) is still out on trap, will give it a try...💯👊Much appreciated..

[@DonaldPerkins-gs4hw]

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

[@irish1209]

Great video! Thanks! Keep them coming back

[@mp_mia7989]

That's nice. Gonna try that at camp. Lots of small game. Thanks 👍

[@VWgrinch]

Great video. Right to the point and well explained.

[@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

[@AtMyShed]

This is an awesome simple trap. Thanks for this!

[@SouthWestAdventuresview22]

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[@atlantic_love]

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

[@drsmartypants1795]

Simple but effective---Fantastic video!!!

[@SouthWestAdventuresview22]

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[@steviewonder8624]

Seems easy and very effective.!! Great stuff.

[@Roybatty066]

Love the video! Nicely done. Once, I made a large deadfall trap for a deer. I almost self deleted in my own trap. So be extra careful out there and start small. Im hitting the subscribe button. Cheers!

[@hbushnell]

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

[@Yggdra666]

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

[@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

[@SuperD37]

Couple of notes. Use a strong stick below the spike to hold the kill arm back rather than holding it with your hand. Safer and you get to use two hands to finish measuring, cutting, and positioning. Second note, be sure to put the bait on the bait stick before arming the trap. If you do it after arming, your asking to get an injury.

[@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…

[@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.

[@jeffreydelguercio7636]

Excellent ..thanks

[@scottsmith6643]

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

[@antonhinkel3828]

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

[@WildManDanWMD]

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

[@dougreynolds2813]

i looked at your channel, great info; i'm a new subscriber, i'll spend some time learning from you.

[@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?

[@ROBSwank-pm1vd]

Very cool survival trap !! Good stuff !

[@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.

[@starsixtyseven195]

Unless its not fast or hard enough. Or doesnt hit the right spot. Anything that point hits will be stuck

[@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. 😂

[@mywifesboyfriendisfire]

Shove Wikipedia up your windyass.

[@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?

[@BenEver-n4q]

OK man, you got my like, sub and all notifications. Great teacher.

[@UnderseaCaveman]

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

[@SouthWestAdventuresview22]

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[@cdemille12]

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

[@randyjones3565]

Just a question Sir! Wouldn't the Y-stick for leverage be moving your target away from the spear head?? Serious question.

[@chamoochannel4895]

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

[@jsant24]

So what’s going to keep the animal from running away from the trap if it gets spiked? That spike is just wrapped around the rope and is loos after it gets triggered. That animal can just run away with it lodged in its body.

[@ElementofKindness]

Depth and relative angle of the trigger stick notch can change the sensitivity greatly.

[@bluenovacorgi8230]

This is really neat wow !

[@johnl.geibel2373]

So long ago in Boy Scouting we had camped on a sand pit bar adjacent to the water. No fish yet an abundance of mice, raccoons and rabbits. Once we set up camp I set a makeshift dead drop trap on a rabbit lane on our perimeter amongst the weed covered sand hills. I knew of a Trekker from San Diego reused a primitive pointed stone affixed to the hard wood arm with deer blood and tied off with rope. It looked like it had killed so many.

[@brettfoster6786]

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

[@seanfinkel9621]

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

[@nicksims9150]

Coolest trap I've seen. Ty for sharing

[@pinkbubblebath]

Cool trap, but if there isn’t enough force to break a stick (the one at the bottom), how is it going to incapacitate a raccoon or rabbit?

[@Rustyshackleford85]

Seems like a very good method. Thanks

[@invictus3598]

Simple and effective! I like it!

[@jacobyone883]

Awesome video man keep it up

[@rubikondergallier6167]

thank u for your awesome skills👍👍👍 greetings from germany, keep on going, bro✌

[@serversurfer6169]

“It kills by blunt force trauma. Don’t forget the stabby bit!” 😂

[@yogidemis8513]

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

[@jamiejohnson8176]

Nice idea just found your channel will definitely watch few from nc but wva at heart

[@kalvinbeuerlein7828]

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

[@trooper2221]

Great channel, thanks

[@mightydeersurvival7622]

Couldn’t you put a spike on the sides of the kill stick so u don’t have to make a path??

[@Steve-Jody]

Any trail cameras showing the trigger activated?

[@blujazzfly]

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

[@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.

[@halomerc5423]

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

[@spiritsurvival645]

Definitely some good info, thanks Cody!

[@JaredJuetten]

This is super cool bushcraft to know!

[@terrydrew6245]

Why not set up a trail camera near by. That way we could see your trap in action. I have watched several similar utube vids but never has anybody showed these traps working

[@pamelacarnes9652]

How do you make the animal go the direction you want? Logs? Rocks? And where do you put the bait? I wasn't clear on that.

[@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 .

[@africanogloriosus7474]

No sabía que los españoles hiciéramos ese tipo de trampas. 😮 Si acaso la de "lazo" para lobos, jabalíes, conejos. Y los cepos para aves.

[@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

[@Mr.h3nt1]

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

[@noscreadur]

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

[@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.

[@goodcitizen3780]

This is a good take on the trap

[@badjaeaux]

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

[@alvinfry]

That bear is wearing people clothes.

[@martinswiney2192]

I would like to see how well the spike penetrates ballistic gel. Or better yet zombie ballistic head for zombie traps

[@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.