I'm new to trapping. I have a welder and can weld good I was thinking about making my own earth anchors out of pipe and bolts kind of like the Iowa disposable earth anchors I know I can make rebar stakes let me know what ya think?

If you do a search for conduit stakes you’ll find a lot of good info.

If you are a really good welder make the drivers.
And sell them.
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I can weld really good I had thought about selling them and rebar stakes.

I make my own out of 1/2 black pipe there 3 inches long overall. I also make pogo anchors I like them both.

I use to use rebar for all my traps when I trapped big in years back. But then went to pogos. They held good and with cable were very light weight. But driving them in our very heavy gumbol clay ground was a big, big pain. So then I went to the Iowa style stake anchors (pipe opened both ends), same thing. Many times the driver would not pull off of the stake because it was lodged tight by packed in clay. So I tried super stakes. I loved them but sometimes hard to drive in I think due to their diameter. So being the tinkerer I am I made my own out of 1/4" black steel (about 1/2" OD) standard pipe. Works great. I usually make them a little longer than regular super stakes. I do weld in a 3/8" solid rod on one end and then grind a point to better drive in tough soil. And weld on a 1/4" nut to hook my #2 chain on with a welded mighty S hooks! I make my own drivers by welding a grade 8 bolt to a 1/2" rod. The bolt never mushrooms much at all. Very hard. But these anchors

are a b****h to pull. I use a handi jack or a stake puller I made. You will never get them out trying to pull thru frozen ground. A spring project for sure.

Ive been making pogos and lots of them. I made my own driver too. I need to make a few mods to my driver, bht im happy with the pogos. Very cheap and easy to make

That's the best anchor I have used, conduit is too flimsy, even wolf fangs are too flimsy for frozen ground
Pipe anchors my favorite

Re-bar is easy to work. Cut, drill, grind and weld. I have been toying with the idea quite a bit lately. I think i can grind a point on one end of a random scrap length of bar then cut it at about the standard 3" length. Put that end in a vise, wack with a punch and drill pilot hole, then bore out to bigger hole. Take a 1/2 link of chain and weld it to the anchor, instead of using a nut. I cut all my chain with an 1/8' cutting disc so i have and do create lots of half links. If this will work it's gonna eliminate the need to bend an S hook and weld it shut and the minor cost of the nut or the cost of the nail to bend S hook.

I have a tap and die set so i am thinking my driver will be cold rolled and the drivers will be tool stock and changeable.

I love the satisfaction of making my own things whether I copied or came up with my own idea.

Ok thanks yall

I agree here. They are all I use and very simple to make. I don’t weld the end shut like the ones pictured above.

I don't either, I use open pipes

What's the difference in open end vs closed?

Open ends tend to fill up as you drive them in sometimes causing them to jamb onto the end of your driver making it difficult to pull your driver out. But they are easier to make since you don't have to fill in the one end.

I use EMT and crimp one end shut

I have had a few times when the driver has stuck on the way out. But that was due to the pipe being a used anchor and not being clean. I tried closing off one end but it is a pain cleaning them out to reuse them

Discarded sickle sections work pretty good.

That's why the pipe is cut at angle on both ends, when done driving it in, wack the handle sharply on the side to turn the driver, this usually makes it rise up due to angled driver fitting and angled pipe edge, starting to free it from driver, I make my driver's at least an inch longer than pipe on anchor
Soft muddy ground is harder to do, 1/8" cable is stiff enough to help the anchor to not come back up with the driver

Good grief, wish I had thought of this before I threw a whole stack of them away.

They don't cost a lot, I bet some Farmers have some used ones, I thought about making a blade drill bit for frozen ground, figured a sicle blade would maybe work

how do they work in rocky stuff ? I could see them shining in an ag field. I picked up a bucket of them at a rummage sale was gonna try and forge some damascus billet out of them (which i know nothing about other than on t.v.) but for $5 for the bucket this is a much better purpose. And a good idea- Thankyou Sir

I make my driver the same way. But instead of an angled piece of pipe on the end I weld a big nut on it. I was having trouble with the 2 angles wedging together after driving them in.

1/2" pipe with chain is probably the best and most versatile. Chain can be long for soft ground and still not stick up like cable when anchor is not driven to maximum depth. Soil conditions and how they will be pulled dictate structural requirements.

Should I weld a bolt for the cable or chain or bend a pice of round stock in to a u shape and weld it on for cable or chain.

Take a 5/16 nut, stand it up on center of shortest part of pipe, weld in place.
Run cable through hole and double ferrule it

Ok what do I make them out of water pipe or conduit or mild steel pipe?

Black steel pipe1/2" Id I use a chop saw to get the 45° angle
I buy 7/16 bearing rod, weld a part of steel pipe on about 4" from end, I weld two rods on to the main driving rod half way from top to end, to reinforce main shaft, weld a 6-8 " handle right beside the top of driver

Ok thanks

Make them out of free stuff or you might as well buy super stake ends. I buy the components and build them myself and can make them at a fraction of the normal sale price. Buy bigger quantity and you will sVe more per piece. If you have any friends who trap you can get them to go in with you. I have made many different anchors myself but the cast ends are much nicer. When you drive a pipe with no end the driver will stick in it and want to pull the anchor up. I M just passing on my experience. I would never say it won't work because it does. Just not as well in my opinion.

I wish I had friends who trap I dont though. Thanks for the input yall

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