If I welded every j-hook, a thief would generally have to have a vise grips, hammer, and or a wrecking bar to extract a stake from a double staked trap. Or a bolt cutters.

Good to know, and it puts my mind at better ease-thanks much.

Switched back and forth for twice... rebar for me now.

I have over 500 rebar stakes if you'll just come get them.
1/8th cable / Wolf Fang head / MB Crunch proof / Double ferules both ends for me !

To bad you live so far away i'd come and get them they make good drags

January frozen rock solid ground here you will not get an earth back no matter what puller you use unless you start banging away next to it with a pick ax.
I can drive rebar in fine, and rebar pulls much more easily when I'm done. yes rebar is heavy and a pain to lug around, but I went back to cross-staking our coyote traps with rebar for a reason. I pound a nut on top no welding and they have served me like that for decades.
I do use disposables for coon DPs, snares, and water sets. In late season I have to make a pilot hole before driving in anchors on dryland sets or they either bend or wont drive in at all.
This past December it was pure mud here for a month and anchors were the ticket for all sets. Then the big freeze hit and switched to rebar.
My t stakes mostly secure and stabilize cages now.
Jim

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I would like the rebar if you are serious.

Thanks.

Sorry to change subject, Georgia boy. What are you guys using to connect chain to say a super stake?

Super stakes with 7x7 1/8" 18 to 27" depending on hard ground or marsh

Or 30" stakes for water animals

I'm with son, having just started trapping and walking most of my traplines, I prefer earth anchors. If I could trap roads or drive within a few yards of my sets my opinion might be different.

Chain stakes till the ground freezes

I've been using pogo's since Dan Reich came out with them, in fact he sent me a Pogo driver and some pre-made anchors to try first. Haven't used any thing else since then. Back then I was walking my line, it was great sticking a dozen of them in my back pocket and go without all the weight of rods, yes they were hard to pull, but so were the dog-knot stakes I used to use. Never had a trap stolen, because most sneakem's don't carry cable cutters with them. Since I'm pretty much trapping the same area year after year, I just flag them and reuse them the following year, or dig below ground level and cut them off.