Thread: tobacco stick stake beds made in coffee cans filled with quick crete?

Would probably roll with current unless silted into the bottom good. Stakebeds last a lot longer for us driven right into the lake bed. This can be done during a drawdown or with the use of a home made PVC driver.

Never seen many others driving stake beds but several fishing partners and I have driven hundreds of them . Easiest and cheapest way unless really deep .

Stake beds 101 - YouTube

I was once fortunate to have access to cypress stakes. We put these in with a custom made aluminum stake driver. 22 years later and still producing slabs!

Originally Posted by slabbandit

I was once fortunate to have access to cypress stakes. We put these in with a custom made aluminum stake driver. 22 years later and still producing slabs!

22 years? That would be nice. I'm just going to put tobacco sticks in two hole block & sink them.

I guess you could call it a custom made aluminum stake driver. I had never seen one before. I took scrap aluminum and built one. Never drew it out on paper just sized everything as it went together. It's about 15 years old and never used.

I wonder how long cypress will last. I'm 70, my senior year of high school (1970) I helped my brother build a fence around his backyard. He found a sawmill that would sell him fresh rough cut boards. First a truck load of 4X4X14 to 16 ft post, all cut to 7 ft. They sat in buckets of creosote and diesel fuel for a month before concreted in the ground. A 1/2X6" hole was drilled down the tops, filled with oil and made caps from aluminum flashing. A load of 2X4X10 and 12 ft was nest, all cut to 10 ft. Most wood fences have a top and bottom 2X4, we put a center board in too. A load of 1X8X12, cut to 6 ft. He sold the house in 2000, fence still looked good. I drove by 2 years ago and it's still standing, starting to show some age.

Thanks for the video Mr Rod. Great idea.

Had a machinist friend of mine build it for me. A 3" aluminum pipe 36" long with a cap and threads welded on. Had several sections of handle. Really helped to have someone loading the stakes in the driver as that were put in.