Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Creating habitat Concrete Culverts

I have access to a number of concrete culverts. The only problem is that those suckers are extremely heavy, and my lake has long since been filled up. Does anyone have any bright ideas about how to load them, and then how to get them into the middle of the lake to sink them? I wouldn't think I would need a tractor to do it, or my Ranger to do it, but who knows. Maybe it's a two man job at least.

How big and heavy? Inner tubes came to mind, say off of a tracter or truck. Depending on the size of the culvert I wonder if you could get them to waters edge and put 2-3 tubes around the culvert then air them up and float them to the area you are wanting them to be planted, then just deflate the tubes, Not sure how you could recover the tubes though, or how much stress the rubber will hold up to but I think it would be fun to try out

How about rolling them down the bank and as far in the water as they go? If they're too shallow, pull them back out and try somewhere else.

Depending on the size, how would attaching a rope to one, crossing the pond in a boat and attaching the rope to your tractor and then dragging the culvert down the bank and across the bottom to the desired spot? You can then row back to where the culvert was placed and cut the rope.

Here's a variation to C1�s idea, run the rope through the culvert and tie it to a section of 4 X 4 with a lighter rope tied to the pulling board and left at the starting point. Pull the culvert to the desired location and retrieve the whole rig back to the start point and start over. That way you won't have any rope debris to hang lures on. I'm in your area and come through Huntsville every week, if you need any help just send me a PM.

Thanks for the responses gentlemen! Captain1 and FamilyTradition--great idea; think I'm going to try that out, and see where that leaves me. I'm probably going to wait for a little warmer weather next week to do it, but I will report back and let you know how it goes.