Thread: Artificial Stumps

I work for a piping contractor so rather than use buckets, you may be able to find a place where you can get leftover pipe. Your best luck dropping them would be with 8" plastic pipe.

Drill holes to allow the air to flow out so that they don't want to turn over as you drop them.

Drill holes near the bottom so you can put rebar or even smaller (green) branches through them. Just make a cross a couple inches off the bottom and slide your rebar, all thread, cane, anything, through it. This will make sure it stays upright when it lands.

8" pipe with 4" of concrete poured in the bottom, locking in your "cross", will give you a stump field that will outlast you.

I do like the idea of helping it out along the way. Placing some greenery in the holes and/or concrete would surely make it an instant attraction. :D:D:D

FF - Man I am getting a hernia just thinking about lifting that puppy. You know ya might stun afew when that one is going down. Yes that stump field would outlast me AND my son combined. Hey it works, that is all that matters.:D

get some 3in screws about 10 per bucket, screw them in the bucket around the rim, get a plastic dish pan or something about 2or 3 in larger than the diameter of the bucket. fill the pan with quick-crete, then push the bucket into the quick-crete with the screws going into the cement. drill some 1/2 in. holes in the top of the bucket.so it will fill with water.

These work well for me. Cheap to make, easy to install and last for many, many years.

Take a 5 gallon bucket, add a few rocks or a couple of shovels of chert or gravel. Remove handle. Buy some 10' pieces of black plastic sever pipe with hopes in it- type used for field lines on septic tanks. Cut into 5 ea. 2' long pieces. Drill hole at top edge of bucket, use plastic zip ties and add a 2' piece of the plactic sever pipe on each side of the bucket.. Sink at least 10- to 20 buckets on a point or creek channel ledge.

You now have a small stump field.. They work.. and the plastic sever pipe, which is 4' in diameter, gives baitfish a place to hide and rest to - in the pipe.