How many cinder blocks

[jcd]

How many cinder blocks does it usually take to sink a wooden pallet with stakes on it?...I am sure it matters on how large the skid is..

Jeremy

[rocket rich]

start with one on each cornor

[jcd]

Hi Rocket Rich,

Thanks for tip...

[NIMROD]

start with one on each cornor

That could get expensive and will flip over if you put them on top. I suggest rocks inside each corner of pallet. Rocks are usually free and available around most lakes here.

[Lowellhturner]

Have only sank pallets 1 time, 2 on top standing upon the 3rd (base), wired 10 10- hole bricks on open edges, holes horizontal. Stuffed top and bottom with mulberry limbs and light steel cabled a cement block to each corner. Sank the "beast" in 20 fow, 30` offshore, had to drag the #$%@ along the bottom with a rowboat, finally, it snagged and had to leave it there, a really miserable event looking back; that thing was my first ever....MAN, did that badboy EVER produce green carp and some BIG crappies! Unfortunately, it worked SO well that more than half the times went to fish it, some boater was already in the process of stripping it of every fish off of it. Learned the value of placement enmass...they can`t fish them ALL at once...

[rlduckhntr]

I have sank pallets with one foundation block on one corner. Not with very good results. It seems they want to flip over. Sometimes the will not fully sink. My question is, is it better to frame up the bottome with 2x's or something rather than use the pallets? I nail slab wood uprights every two foot off of the pallets.

[Lowellhturner]

Thought about nailling/ wiring 2 pallets to opposite ends of 3rd (base) pallet then filling open edges with 10 hole bricks (12- 16) wired in place with some limbs inside cabled in place with 5- 6 blocks to lift it off the bottom, realised would be VERY difficult to load and place them and never tried one like that. Should be 1 BIG sonar target with mega cover! Too bad we`re not allowed to set them out on the ice, probably the only practical way of going anything THAT big...