Thread: cedar

Those pvc blocks are good if you can get to them when water is down. That way you can change out the limbs that have rotted off. Been torn off by other boaters.
If placing in deeper water, I'd group a few limbs together and sink with good anchor.

The way we use the big limb,we gather up some 12in blocks and coated wire,and head out to the river with all in the back of a truck,back the truck down to the edge of the water,pull the boat up to the truck,lay a block on the deck of the boat,lay the big limb on the block and tie with the wire,ease back out to a spot we have already throw a marker out and drop our limbs in,maybe drop 2 or 3 in the same spot,it makes a big brush pile,sometimes we will tie 2 or 3 limbs to the same block.

Wire them together and tie on a concrete block. Another way is pour buckets of concrete and insert limbs before it sets up. Either way sounds easier than what you have in mind.

Originally Posted by NIMROD

Wire them together and tie on a concrete block. Another way is pour buckets of concrete and insert limbs before it sets up. Either way sounds easier than what you have in mind.

How is wiring 4 limbs to a concrete block any easier than drilling a hole in them and sliding them down over a pc of 3/4 " pvc that's already set up in concrete?

Here's what i wound up doing with the limbs i got off the cedar we cut down. I took some 1/2 inch pvc and conduit put 6 nails through the bottom of the pipe set them in approximately 60 lbs of concrete. I drilled holes through the limbs slid them down on the pipe after the concrete set. I ran a bolt through the top of the pipe to keep them from coming off.

I think they'll make some excellent cover in 5-10 ft of water. I should be able to dump two of them each time I go out.

You are good to go now!! Just hollow when you want to put some out and I will come help, follow, or something.

Originally Posted by callshy

You are good to go now!! Just hollow when you want to put some out and I will come help, follow, or something.

Sure, just let me know where you want them. We'll need to put them close to those others you already have out. Send me some coordinates so I can plug them into my handheld.........

have you put these out yet? just wandering cause it looks like to me that if you try to pick them up by the ceder the crete is gonna bee too heave and break your PVC and vice verca if you bick it up by the bucket...