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I like the bags. Good idee. I wonder how that would work with bigger structure, like a 6' tall cedar tree? I guess you could tie two bags on. The bags would offer several benefits over blocks. They wouldn't scratch up the boat and you could fill them with dry sack-crete and it would cure once it sank. With some strategically placed steel cable through the bag and sack-crete, it wouldn't matter if the bag did decay.
To make structure stand upright secure empty milk jug twirls top
Sacreat would work but pricy. Perhaps clay would last longer but after 5 years? The bag may be compromised. But that’s 5 years of catching
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I have dropped 79 brushpiles this year. All but a few have been weighed with sandbags full of rocks, have only “lost” 2 when I used a questionable amount of clay and I suppose they just drifted off.
Sorry for multiple posts. I will use 2 bags on many of my big piles...each bag holds around 40lbs full. Sooooo much cheaper than concrete. I use 3/8 poly rope and do not have problems snagging.
By the time these bags give way, what hasn’t rotted will certainly be waterlogged and will stay in place.
Great thread...Thanks guys!
I have sunk about 50 or more sandbags and I really like them, they are easy to handle, cheap, they don't tear up the boat and they work. They can move around on you if you put them where there is current or strong wave action. A local sand company puts some sand out for the public to use at will and I use this to fill the bags. It comes right out of the local river so it is coarse sand mixed with pea gravel, perfect filler. I have sunk 10' tall cedars with a single sand bag and about the same size of other tree tops with one bag also. None of these have disappeared yet and some have been in over a year. Like Cameron said by the time the bag fails the brush is too water logged to ever come back up. I tie my bags with the ties that come with them then I get 3/16" braided nylon rope and make a sort of a sewing needle out of small wire and weave the rope through the bag between the top of the sand and the tie using the wire needle. After I weave the rope through the bag 5-6 times I wrap it around the bag and tie it again, so the bag is tied closed twice. I leave both ends of the rope about 16" long and use these to tie on the tree or branch at a fork near the bottom.
I stage brush on the bank near where I want to sink it and use a poly rope to drag it to where I have previously put a marker buoy close to where I want to put the brush. I use a poly rope because it won't sink and get into the prop as easy. I like to sink brush with leaves on because it seems I hang up less on it and it gives the crappie more cover and it will have more algae on it. I figure more algae means more minnows, more minnows means more crappie. I try to sink brush within two days of when I cut it so the leaves stay on.
Good Luck with your sandbags.
Where did you find the sandbags cheapest
https://www.sandbagstore.com/economy...yABEgJDtfD_BwE
Free shipping 100 bags for$31
14 x 26
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