I have made several beds/ stick-ups from old pallets. How hard is it to sink them??? Will I need extra weight?? Should they sink on there own?? Any info will be appreciated.
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I have made several beds/ stick-ups from old pallets. How hard is it to sink them??? Will I need extra weight?? Should they sink on there own?? Any info will be appreciated.
You will need lots of weight in my opinion (3-4 8"concrete blocks).
I have 6 total to put in tonight, I will let you know how it goes. Hope I dont need that many, will have to look around to find enough weight if that is the case.
brake rotors if a brake shop will part with them and not want to scrap them. They may sell them to you cheaper than you can buy concrete blocks for though too. They are easy to attach considering that have a hole in them and they will not break apart as quickly as a cinder or concrete block.
I sank several in a local reservoir using the large grey rocks found at the boat landing, it took about 5 of these big rocks to sink one. Oh yea, they are free..
if everyone that sank structure took those rocks there wouldnt be any around the ramps.get some blocks it will take 4 8 in blocks to do it.u can find broken ones at construction sites and the layers wont mind u having them just ask first
I put out tons of them and use creek rocks cause they're free!;)
Only got 3 of the pallets in last night....used up all my blocks. Will try to get the rest in at a later date....probably when the water levels comes back to full pool. The 3 I put out can be seen by others if they look closely....NOT GOOD!
I just carry the stakes and drive them in the bottom of the lake. Much easier than hauling all that stuff around.
It is surprising how much weight it takes to sink trees and stake beds like this. Plus it's not easy carrying to to the spot you want it in - and even getting it out of the boat without it turning on it's side.
That is just one of the advantages of the PVC trees - the PVC sinks on it's own, and can be anchored with just a brick so that the current won't move it. Not to mention that they last forever.
I'm with you on that one. I tried the pallets a long time ago and found out you need a lot of weight and man power. Driving the stakes in, is much easier.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by CRAPPIEHUNTER68
With a 17' x48'' boat with decks it's easy setting pallets. I showed my neighbor having trouble and now he says its easy.;) One man job .Quote:
Originally Posted by fishordie
Do you put the stake bed out in the water first, then add your rocks? How do you keep one side from sinking, so that you can add rocks to the other side?Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
We need more hints on how to make this easy. I've connected a bunch of my PVC trees together to make sort of a diamond shape - but by the time I got it out of my boat, I had drifted off (they were pulling water) of where I intended for the structure to go. I had to go back with scuba gear to move it where I wanted it.
I attached one end of the structure with a rope and tied that to a cinder block I set on a pier. Then I used my remote control trolling motor to move my boat out until I could pull the cinder block off the pier. I had another cinder block on the other end of the diamond shape - but it was still pretty hard to get it out of the boat - and I had a piece of plywood on my boat to make it easier to slide off.
Question: Did you see fish using the structure (cover?)? And if you did how were they relating to it (i.e. suspend above, buried down in it, under the pvc limbs)?Quote:
Originally Posted by fishingholebuilder
Hey fishingholebuilder, I fish the same lake as NIMROD. He definately has the bugs worked out on putting out pallet beds but my Tracker PF-16 stick steer is not well suited for hauling out pallets.
Therefore, I have built a PVC stake driver per KrappieKrazy's specs and have been driving them right into the lakebed. So far my deepest bed is in 10 feet of water. Our lake is shallow and very muddy so I don't think that I will ever have to go any deeper than 15 feet.
I am still working on a good anchoring system to use while placing the beds but I have gotten some good ideas from some of the guys here.
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I put pallet bed on the boat then add rocks inside corners of pallet. Make sure to balance rock weight even all corners. We place pallet so bottom boards are pointed out otherwise each board space will hang on rim of boat when pushing the overside.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishingholebuilder
There were fish both in it and above it - the structure was in about 19 feet deep water, and I wound up not moving it as far as we had planned - because of the number of fish already holding on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by smashdn
I bet this stake driver works really well. Most of the reseviors I've placed strucure on (and it's been a lot) have a thick layer of muck on the bottom and it seems to be pretty easy to drive a stake or tree into.Quote:
Originally Posted by slabbandit
So you load all the rocks while it is still on the boat? It stills seems as if the far side of the pallet would sink before you could get the closer side over the side of your boat - making the pallet tip over as it was sinking, and causing the rocks to come out. Do you have someone else in another boat helping you keep it level before you let it go?Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD