Thread: Setting brush piles Help?

If youre going to use sakrete, keep checking by Lowes and Home depot for their broken bags. They almost give them away, may be different types of concrete but it dont matter.

You can also use the bigger parts of limbs to make good piles. cut the 3 to 5'' around limbs to 4 or 5' tall and use a block. Put a limb in each cell and pour it full of sakrete. They will look like tree trunks once put out and the limbs with y's works out great.

I couldn't get an individual picture to post but scroll down this link and you can see the bamboo condos we built and dropped in High Rock and Tuckertown a few years ago.

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/north...revised-8.html

turkey foot that is a great idea.We should try one and see.

I'm all for it. Would everyone interested want to try a group project?

I'll try to help as much as I can. I am going to ask the man I got some brush from when he is cutting more tress down. We may have to get them as soon as he cuts them out of his way and go straight to the river. I'll start keeping blocks that people throw away and some rubber coated wire that is flexible to tie with. If I get anymore 50 gal drums I'll get those to and cut them in half and make a pvc brush too!

I'd like to grow Bamboo but just takes over everything
Bamboo condos look great

If I remember right we had about 130 5 gallon buckets. I have no idea how many bags of quickrete were used but it was more than originally planned.

One of the guys got the OK from Alcoa(which controls the lakes of the Yadkin chain) and presented the plan of bamboo in 5 gallon buckets and they said ok but with a couple simple requests. Another member had a field nearby High Rock where we built the condos and not far down the road somebody had a patch of bamboo we could get all we wanted. Myself and 2 or 3 others brought trailers and made a couple trips to cut bamboo and we had a big turnout of people to build all in 1 day what we thought would take 2 maybe 3 days. The biggest help was somebody brought a concrete mixer. We gave GPS coordinates where we would like to have brush and we dropped 4 condos in one spot. Alcoa requested we wait 30 days from the time we built to drop day to let the concrete cure. Just before we loaded the condos to go to the lake we used baling twine to wrap around the bamboo to save room and the twine was cut just before we dropped it in. I never thought my Carolina Skiff 1765DLX would hold 4 condos but it did very well! If a boat did not have GPS a smaller boat with GPS would throw a marker bouy over the target area and condos would be dropped. We did this in the early months before boat traffic picked up so not many people saw where these went plus it wasn't too hot so we didn't burn up! In fact the first planned drop day when we would have had plenty of boats, it snowed the night before so it was called off. I would suggest if there were a project to do this now is the time.