Is 18 inches long eneough for coon and opossum I drove my homemade 18 inch rebar stakes in to the ground and was able to pull them out pretty easy? I'm thinking 24 Inches would be better

I think you answered your own question. In my soil 18 is enough as long as nothing is overhead for the coon to pull up on, but I have to use my hammer to pull them.

Depending on what you’re soil conditions are like? Sand, loam, clay? Unless it’s sandy ? I would say 18” is plenty long.

I'm in north georgia so it's red clay and Ritch black dirt.

If there's any question of them holding, double them up. Always set for the largest animal you MIGHT catch.

are you pulling up or side ways ?

if any doubt add one of these http://www.minntrapprod.com/Double-Stake-Swivels/productinfo/DSW-100/

all my DP's have them but I was trapping sugar sand

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Last year I got annoyed because my friend kept telling me i was a wimp for using 2 stakes on yote traps. All I herd was that yotes aient that strong, and they wont pull a stake. Well long story short, I used one stake because I was fed up with hearing it, and now I am missing a bridger #3. Stake for anything, not just what you are after.

I was pulling from the side with a flat stake I walked around and the stake twisted and came loose than I just pulled up and it came out no problem

First thing I ever caught was in a 110 I set for squirrel. Came out the next day it was gone. Day later there's a possum next to my truck with the 110 around it.

The advise I got here was best...even if you're setting for a mouse...stake for an elephant.

I started just using cable on mine. Stakes just add too much weight for carrying. Of course sometimes there isn't a tree in the coon trail. But 18 ins should do fine. You are stronger than a 20 lb coon aren't you?

Many places where I trap coons the ground can be soft and or wet so I have put double stake swivels on all of my foothold and DP traps. I did make them now about 16-18 inches and out of 3/8 inch rebar so they are not too heavy. I welded a nut on the ends and twist them out easily with a vice grips.

Bryce

Well if I ain't stronger then a boar coon I might need to re-think my life. I made mine 18 inches out of 1/2 inch rebar because it's just what homedepot had and a nut welded on top. Should I do double stakes or longer single stakes I don't have to worry about weight because the places I will be trapping I can get to with a 4 wheeler. let me know what you would do would do

Are you using 1/2 inch rebar, using two, and pounding them in at an angle, so that they make an "X" below ground? I welded 5/8 nuts to mine, and they take a beating. I'm trappig in sandy soil, and I have to use a rebar puller to remove them. I use the same double stake swivels that GREENCOUNTYPETE posted a link for.

Yeah 1/2 inch and a nut on top built them myself. I made my own flat stakes I took the biggest thickest washer I could find drilled a hole in the side of them and ran a s hook through they are solid as a rock the stake just won't hold

How can a possum or a coon pump a stake? I use 16" stakes

×2 on that a possom may not pump it out but I've heard of red fox getting in them. I got a otter in a muskrat set yesterday with a duke 1.5 it easing even on a drowner but it was a 36 incl oak tomatoe stake and it swelled so she wrapped up and drowned.
Moral of the story u never no what's gonna be in that trap when u walk up.

18 in are fine . Never heard of anyone double staking for coon . Just saying

Put a cable on them . Loop in the end , around a tree, drop the trap
thru the loop, push it into the ground . catch coon.

I was thinking about that but it's just easier for me to use stakes their isn't always a tree or root. I am going to be trapping big hard woods creeks and pines so stakeing is just easier. But I am going to rig a few with a cable and a loop. Once I buy more DPs. That's a purty coon too

Yes sometimes the spot you want to set doesn't have a tree. But if its like were I trap just follow the trail until you come to a sapling. They are going somewhere when they make the track you see. Got that one this morning. Behind a pizza hut. LOL
City coons. Once people find out what you are doing coon places are pretty numerous. Especially around restaurant dumpsters.