Drainage Tube & Buckets

I have been thinking about building some buckets to drop. My first time doing anything like this.
Looking around here and looking around my shop came up with something like this.

Do you think these would work ?
Should I drop the buckets to .....or......take the buckets off and just have concrete with no buckets ?
Or could build some square boxs and reuse them.
The Drainage tube are cut 3" and 4'.....could even cut them 5'

Any suggestions ? Thanks

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Those look good.. I've heard of people drilling holes in the tubes for bait fish to get inside of.. I've never built what you've got above but I have some of that pipe laying around.. You may have sparked an idea.

Looks great. Like the last picture best. Good luck

The fish will love those.

Mike
I used a lot of drainage tube for BIG Crappie....IN OUR LAKE, we found that branches, stakes, and small diameter wood or plastic, tend to attract mostly smaller Crappie. When you drop BIG DIAMETER stuff the BIG SLABS used it...especially for ambush points if you set it around smaller cover that attracted baitfish, close to feeding flats, or where they rested during the day in drops or deeper water.
I set mine in plastic trays like your wooden base, the trays could hold 5 tubes, I paid my son (a Favorite pair of Nike's) to sand all of the tube that I had, so the algae stuck good...I got a bunch of the trays for free, so I just dumped the entire unit! The best part about these is how light they are for the size....this is the easy way to build a STUMP FIELD! :)
GOOD FISHING!

They look good. I like the last one you can just keep using the same wood forms to build more.

My only concern would be that the corners of the cement in the boxes might be prone to breaking off; that said if a pair of horizontal holes were drilled about 1" up on the outside of each piece taking advantage of the pipe`s natural curve and tied together tightly with VHD weed eater line and THEN cemented the chances of it even partially coming apart would be greatly diminished even if a couple of corners broke off...Have to wonder if could just flatten 1 end and jam these into a cement block ? Looks like need to do some "experimenting"...The basic idea is SUPERB ! Cheap, relatively fast, easy to mass produce, easy to load on a boat and "splash"...

Here is an improved one....I think this will work. Just leave them in the bucket and I have the handle in the middle. Drill some holes for bait fish and some in the bottom for concrete to get into the tube to hold tight.

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Looks good but here plastic has not worked as good as wood. Let us know how they work for you.

Well....I'm on my way to making as many as these as I want. I got the green light from the local Corp of Engineers so the door is open.
I just have some questions..
How much weight do you think the drainage tubes would take to sink ?
And the wood slats ?
I want to make sure I get enough in them. The concrete I used wasn't the best thing for the tubes...it was course and hard to get down in the bottom of the bucket. I wonder if a mortar mix would be more pourable ?
Any suggestions on how to hold the wood slats upright while the concrete cures ? I'm sure I will get the hang of it after I get going.
I like the tubes but I can get all the wood I want for free from my local saw mill .....which I have bought from for years.....so I know them well.
I'm going to try both for now.

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Mike you may be able to just fill the pipe with some sand,gravel or brick pieces and sink them after filling them with what concrete you have already used. After they hit the bottom they should stay there. Now this is only a guess as to how much concrete you did get in the buckets. Trial and error is the best that you could do at this time. Just take one and place in some water about 4' deep and see if it is still buoyant or not then you will know what and how much to make others.:twocents

Most PVC drainage pipe is slightly buoyant by itself but most as far as know or have seen so far very little weight will sink it but if there is either current or wave action....