pallet build

[NIMROD]

Just playing with different ideas and pallets. Tried making boxes but like old stakebed type best. These just need rocks for weight and water.:D







Here we fish mostly shallow water as our lake for the most part under 10' unless flooding. I do best most of the time close to the bottom so tall stucture is not needed. I build some just short enough to miss boat traffic at low pool. Rarely sink anything over 10' of water anymore.

[blairarnold]

Impressive. Are the buckets for rocks?

[NIMROD]

Impressive. Are the buckets for rocks?

Yes in the buckets are rocks and a little concrete. The stakebeds ,we just wedge in rocks or tie them on.

[blairarnold]

Thanks. They are impressive. Looks like a lot of bang for fairly little labor.

[TacoBender]

Those look good. You better add a lot of weight or they'll keep on floating. I had to add 4 blocks per pallet to get them to sink.

[NITRONATE]

How do you get them out of your boat and into the water ?

[NIMROD]

Taco , I wedge rocks in the pallets and they sink fine.

Nitro , I load them on the decks and then wedge in the rock for weight to sink. If positioned with boards on bottom of pallet cross ways on the edge of the boat they silde out easily.

[Arkie John]

THAT stuff will do the trick, my friend.

The other day, a friend from Little Rock called me and said that he had found a bunch of used pvc. When I got there I found that by his house the city was replacing fiber optic lines. They are encased in 1 1/2" - 2" pvc-like stuff that comes in rolls of hundres of feet.

Brother Tom and I got busy with our hack saws and wound up with a pick-up load of the stuff. We're puttin' 'em in 5-gallon buckets w/ rocks and a little concrete to keep everything in placce and will sink them when Ouachita's at winter pool level.

Good lookin' stuff, Nim.

aj

[WhitePerchJerker]

Good work, they look like they will hold White Perch to me.