How to Make a Ketch-All Pole

A Ketch-All pole is the brand name of a commercially available tool commonly called a catch-pole, choke-pole or hog-snare. The Ketch-All contains several proprietary features that make this brand the choice of trappers and animal control agents. You can make a workable catch-pole from a few items available at any hardware store.

Things You'll Need

  • 5 feet 3/4-inch thin wall conduit
  • 8 feet 1/4-inch aircraft cable
  • 1/4-inch hex nut
  • 1/4-inch drill
  • Ball peen hammer
  • Anvil
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Instructions

    • 1

      Slide a 1/4-inch hex nut 1/2 inch onto the end of an 8-foot length of 1/4-inch aircraft cable.

    • 2

      Lay the nut with the cable through it on edge on an anvil.

    • 3

      Strike the upper edge of the nut with a ball peen hammer, flattening the nut so the threads inside grip tightly on the strands of the aircraft cable.

    • 4

      Drill a 1/4-inch hole through one side of a 5-foot length of 3/4-inch thin wall conduit, 3/4 inch from one end.

    • 5

      Insert the end of the aircraft cable opposite the end with the nut swaged onto it into the end of the conduit and out through the hole drilled in Step 4. Pull the cable completely through the hole until the nut pulls tight against the drilled hole.

    • 6

      Insert the free end of the aircraft cable back into the end of the conduit, sliding it through the conduit and out the opposite end, leaving a 15-inch loop of cable on the other end.