Buidling your own stakes

[Woodywoodduck]

Originally posted by justwannano
Looks like Super stakes an earth anchor sold by Snare Shop in 2003 for 18.00. Samr price as their 18" rebar stakes.

1 dozen duckbills at the trapping store in my area are 12.00....driver is 7.00
Rebar is a tad higher and that is just for a Straight piece of rebar, no nuts or washer welded on them.

Originally posted by justwannano
I sometimes just want to move a trap a few feet. Not practical with a anchor that needs special tools to pull.
They have their place but not on most of my line.

You can move them withOUT a special Tool! I'm not going to post it openly on ANY Internet site to give the trap thieves a know how to pull them without a tool but if you stand and look at them and think about it, you can figure out how to pull them without the need for a special puller!

All that is needed in regular ground is a 12 inch cable stake, coyotes can not pull them out, many guys around me that are catching Coyotes regularly are using nothing but 12 inch cable stakes and have never had a coyote "Pump" a 12 inch cable stake!
Now, rebar, you need to cross stake with 2 stakes to keep a Coyote from "Pumping" the stake out and running off, not the case with the cable stakes, just 1 needed!


Like I said, they are much lighter and easier to use, heck, if you do it right and get the correct cable stakes, you do not even have to have a tool to drive them down in the ground, all you need is 1 piece of rebar that is about the same length as the cable stakes.


12 inch cable stakes will hold coons, fox, coyotes in regular ground BUT if you are trapping in muddy/sandy soil, then 1 would need the 24 inch or longer cable stakes to hold!


I have a tool I bought 5 years ago to pound the cable stakes into the ground, I been using it for the past 5 years, All I have had to do is pound a bend out of it from hitting large rocks a time or 2, many guys I have talked to do not even think about pounding our a bend in thier drivers, they just pitch them and buy a new 1 which is NOT Needed!

When season is over and I pull my traps, I simply "PULL" them, with a methoid that works very well on those 12 inch cable stakes even with a Painful Back that has pinched nerves and a few blown discs, not hard to do, just have to do it correctly and no need to buy a special puller,
If you stand and look at how the cable stakes work, you can then understand how to pull them without the need for a pulling tool, but like I'm saying, you have to look at them and understand how they work and hold when a Critter gets caught in a trap held by a cable stake, then you just do your pulling different then how they hold critters! Ever see any of the videos of cable stakes being used, they hook up a horse and let it pull but the stake does not come out then they hook up a tractor and pull and the stake does not come out, AH but if they did things a tad bit differentent with the Tractor, those stakes would POP straight out of the ground with not much pressure put on them!


If your trapping a place were year in and year out and you are setting the same locations, you can just leave the cables in the ground and use quick connects and just disconnect the trap from the cable and let the cable in the ground till next season, if you are taking both trap and cable stake then J-Hooks would need to be used on the eend of the trap chain and connected to the cable stakes.

I'll take many dozens of cable stakes over 1 dozen of rebar, no heavy rebar to be carried, no extra gadgets to be bought to hook onto the end of the trap chain to hold 2 rebar stakes crossed, no worry about trap thieves walking off with my traps, no wories about a coyote "pumping" my stakes out of the ground, less weight on my back to be carried in and then out,