Free Habitat Ended

[spongebob]

chef thanks alot recieved my tree today,what a good idea going out tomorrow to put out,will post results on how it does,and will order more .....................thanks danny

I was just wondering if any of you guys have had any luck fishing around the attractors you got. I did real well around mine earlier this summer but haven't been fishing as much lately. Would be interesting to see how well you guys do!

[1weezer]

Hey Chef, I just put out several more of your trees today. I have an underwater point covered up with them. I really like the trees that are put together with the little plastic pins. Very easy to put together and they sink real quick. Can't wait to start fishing on them.

[Wardy]

Yea I never could figure out what angle he was talking about.


What type of drill do you use. Circle Saw is what I used on the first two PVC crappie trees I built. But I had to stop after drilling the first hole in one side of the 4" pipe and take the plastic disk out before starting to drill the second hole. I have an extention that I fit the 1 3/8" circle saw onto that allows me to drill all the way though the larger diamter pipe.

I priced some 10ft sections of 4" PVC Pipe with the BELL ends on them. They sell for $4.59 each here at Lowes. I found some cheaper 1" ID PVC Pipe for about $1.49 each for a ten foot section. But if you have to buy ten of these 1" ID x 10ft long pipes the cost will run up. I think that the 3" pvc pipe was a dollar cheaper. I also found some heavy duty 1" ID PVC Pipe that sold for almost 2.49 each for a 10ft long pipe.

I went out to Lowes, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, Tractor Supply and finally the one other big hardware store in town and could not find anything like the pins that John sent to me. I may drive up to Haubstaut IN and visit the True Value Hardware Store there. I heard they may sell them. Wish I knew what they were called. Can't search for them without knowing what they are called or what they are used for other than building crappie trees. LOL

I need to drive up to Scotty's in Haubstaut, IN anyway to buy a new gas tank cap for my Snapper Riding lawn mower. I broke the top off the one I have. Must have gotten too close to a small scrub brush and hit the top of the gas cap on the braches. Can't figure how else the metal screw thing got busted off the cap. The vent screw that is. I can get by without it but I would buy a new cap if I can.

I found some plastic push pins at Lowes that could substitute for the pins that John sent to me. But they may cost more and it takes about 20 pins for each tree. The trees I made had ten branches on them.

I am going to try to build me a hook made out of iron rods and then drag the lake bottom where I put my first two PVC trees. Hopefully I can latch onto them and pull them up to check on them. I want to put some fun noodle material inside the tops of them and then put a cap on the tops of them. Then I may move them to a new location that hopefully will make them produce better for me. They have only been attracting Green Carp and not many crappie.

Moose, Don't drill the holes in the 3" straight through. I use a drill saw. Drill one, go to the opposite side and drill the second hole just off set/center. When you insert the "branch", it will bind up and hold in place. Some of my "offset" holes required me to use a screw driver to line up the branch inside. The ones that I drilled straight through required the screws

I did get one of JandJ models with the rubber washers. It worked also. In fact, I could not wait till I got to the lake to assemble it. It blew out of the back of my truck at 55 mph. Just a few scratches. I rolled the washers back and plunked it in the lake.

[chef]

I think I see what you are talking about now. I have some 3" ID Pipe laying around that I can practice on.

I use a portable battery operated Dewalt 18volt drill with a hole saw attached.

I don't have a drill saw and can't think of what a drill saw would look like.

I can visualize it as a table with the drill secured in the vertical plane and with a way to move the drill up and down. I think I used one of those once in Grade School Shop Class. I should have taken more shop classes in High School so that I would know my tools better.

MOOSE

I SENT YOU A 100 CLIPS TODAY. YOU SHOULD RECEIVE THEM IN
THREE OR FOUR DAYS. I DIDN'T REALIZE THEY ARE SO HARD TO
FIND. I BUY MINE FROM THE MANUFACTURER, BUT BOUGHT MY FIRST
ONES AT A TRUE VALUE HARDWARE STORE.

BEST REGARDS
CHEF

[hawkman]

I think I see what you are talking about now. I have some 3" ID Pipe laying around that I can practice on.

I use a portable battery operated Dewalt 18volt drill with a hole saw attached.

I don't have a drill saw and can't think of what a drill saw would look like.

I can visualize it as a table with the drill secured in the vertical plane and with a way to move the drill up and down. I think I used one of those once in Grade School Shop Class. I should have taken more shop classes in High School so that I would know my tools better.

I'm not familiar with a drill saw either, at least not by that name.I was experimenting with some pvc pipe the other day trying to build a condo out of stuff I already had laying around. I used a spade bit to drill my holes with. They are about 6 inches long so you shouldn't have any trouble boring all the way through a 4 inch pipe without stopping to clean it out like with the hole (circle) saw. The actual cutting part is flat & available in sizes up to at least 1-1/2 inches. http://content.sears.com/images/tabs...narrow_on2.gif

[Crappie Reaper]

A spade bit is slang for a "paddle bit". I never heard of a drill saw, but I think he is meaning a "hole saw". They come in different sizes and are round with saw teeth all around the parimeter. They chuck into a drill. I would suggest a good powerful drill, but a strong cordless drill will do just fine. You must have a hole saw mandrel, which also houses a "pilot" bit that starts the hole. The pilot bit keeps the hole saw lined up allowing the saw blades to engage the material cutting out the size hole you want.

[chef]

i use the hole saw, 1 and 5/8 inch size for the 1 inch pvc. i started with a
cheap hole saw and moved on to a better more expensive one, which works
a lot better.

chef

[hawkman]

I was looking at some other type of drill bits at Lowes the other day. I bet that they were similar to the bits you call a spade bit. I tried to open the gif that you posted but it would not show me the web page or photo for some reason. Probably my computer is messed up again.

I don't know what happened with the link, I probably did something wrong. Just go to www.craftsman.com & type "spade bits" in the search box.

[hawkman]

A spade bit is slang for a "paddle bit".

Maybe "paddle bit" is slang for a spade bit? I've known them as spade bits since high school shop class. (Class of '71) If Craftsman calls them spade bits, that's good enough for me.lol