I’ve had wolf fang type cable stake actually suck the cable out of the ferrule when driving in rock hard ground. I’m putting double ferrules on them this year. Eight or ten cents is cheap insurance.
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Got me a bulldog stake puller to retrieve my wolf fangs. Thinking bout making up a pogo setup for soft mud disposable. How big a washer would be goodnto go with a 2 in or something smaller work?
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I’ve seen 1.5 and 2 inch used. I’ve been making and using those conduit anchors for soft mud. A four inch section is a permanent anchor in soupy mud with a four foot cable and driver. A section of conduit used to be 5.00 and you get thirty anchors out of it but like everything else ,it’s gone up.
I thought about those. Its the conduit cost. I may check with some local electrician and see if i can get scraps. Mind showing how yoir driver is set up
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It’s just a four foot long piece of 1/2 inch rebar with a 5/8 nut welded on the end about three inches up. It fits inside the anchor and pulls out easily. Then you pull four foot cable and it sets sideways.
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I use the fox hollow super stakes you can put a little short retrieval cable on them , and use a hay hook to pull them out of the ground with minimum effort, it makes it easy
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With the pogos you have the cost of the washer plus six cents for a j hook so it isn’t much different. That four inch piece of conduit hammered flat on one end holds very well. You guys in west Ky frequently have nowhere to anchor and no beaver stick to shove in the mud, or that’s what I’ve seen. Anchor with confidence with the conduit. I can’t pull them out. I figure I spend thirty or forty cents on lure at a set sometimes. If I make a good set I don’t mind trading the anchor for a beaver or two. It just speeds up operation having something at ready for an anchor, for me. I have places I can easily shove it down four feet.
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I’ve been on a quest for anchoring for many years and in my area it just varies. What I can use in the natural woods and what I can use where 50 tons of rock or coal have continually traversed a road for months on a strip pit packing it just vary. Between stakes, anchors and now, a lot of drags,I work it out.
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Like you said Steve it take a variety of stuff I range from seemingly bottomless muck to solid limestone on the surface.
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I’ve actually made up a bunch of new 1/8 inch cable that are eight feet long and will cinch down tight on a clog or cut sapling with a camlock. I’m going to use those some for weight plus entanglement this year. I carry a little battery chain saw I can cut something to tie to for a drag.
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We quit using a swagger. Had a bench top and a couple hand held. Cable slipped out too much. Better holding power hammered on. Not as pretty looking but less complaints from customers.
On hog snares we were using double steel nuts to secure the ends, that worked nice too.
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