Thread: Building more pallet stake beds.

Nice

does anyone know about how long these will last?

If they stay submerged made of cedar or hardwood will last for years if you used good nails or screws. Most wood rots very slowly if not exposed to the air. There are solid stumps in this lake from trees cut before 1942 ! I fish driven stakebeds that are close to 20 years old and pallet stakebeds that are almost 10 years old. Stainless or galvinized nails or screws will make them hold togather longer as will thicker diameter nails.
. Regular nails will rust into faster in some waters than others. I have sunk hundreds of them over last 10 years.

There's going to be some good eatin there in a few months.......nice looking

Keep up the good work, sir !

Those look great

Well looks like you will have more time to build some more with all this rain

How do you get yours off the boat and into the water and sitting upright? We had a row of conveyor rollers on the front of a work boat. Took 2 of us to shove it off evenly. With the front of the bed going into the water 1st, we had more weight on the backend so it would catch up while going down in deeper water. 8' x8' beds, with 5 rows of basicly 1x4's, 7 boards to a row. Caught a lot of fish off those. We would get used concrete blocks that had mortar in them, clean 1 hole out and slide the empty hole over 1 of the vertical stakes. 3 blocks in the front and 4 on the back. Lot of work but was worth it. Did about 700 of them.