Thread: Stake Beds

Nimrod, how hard is it to drive the stakes? I've seen a couple videos, and they made it look way easier than I imagine it really is. Also, how long does it take you to make one bed? Do you build out of a flat bottom boat?

Hi Agrihawg,

I have the blueprints to make a good stake driver out of pvc...It is simple to make and you can drive into any depth...As long as whatever driving is long enough..


Jeremy

Originally Posted by AgriHawg

Nimrod, how hard is it to drive the stakes? I've seen a couple videos, and they made it look way easier than I imagine it really is. Also, how long does it take you to make one bed? Do you build out of a flat bottom boat?

Here most of the bottom is soft and with the lake down ,we just push them in. If it hits a hard pan we hit them with a big hammer. Have seen some put in water out of a boat with a driver. I made one out of steel pipe but that is hard work. Much easier with lake drawndown. When lake is full I perfer sinking pallet stakebeds. I still put pallets down with stakes most of the time during the drawdown as we have mostly mud bottom. The fish seem to like a hard bottom of pallets.