Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Creating habitat PVC/Plastic tree

Made this today to put in 8ft deep section of my pond close to a dropoff.

Love it. Nicely done SB.

I love this idea!

I got to looking and I've got some scrap pieces of 6" PVC pipe and a good bit of 2-2.5" ABS pipe laying around. I may just have to see about fixing up a couple of "trees"!

That is extreme structure.

You may never see your fish again. They are going to get lost in that thing and may not be able to find their way out. Actually, it looks great.

Nice - will add to structure archive.

Very nice. PVC is wonderful.

I just bought a dozen Porcupine fish attractor balls, and your pic gives me new ideas.

That sure is a nice piece of work SB!

I got this idea from a prev. post. It had a picture but didn't describe how he built it. The black pipe is 3/4 water line-100ft. at $20 bucks from Lowes. PVC is 2 inch. I tried to get a tight fit where the black pipe went through the PVC, but that was time consuming. So I bored the holes larger with a variable bit, slid the black pipe through and secured with some old galvinized deck screws I had. The PVC "branches" are 36 inch long, and the black water line is 40 inches. I ran threaded rod through the anchor bucket, and through a pc. of PVC with a coupling, filled with 1 1/2 bags of quikcrete. Let set up. The rods stick below the bucket 12 inches to stick in the pond bottom clay. The last picture is what tools I used. I have another place I want to add one that is 5 ft. deep and rocky that I will run the threaded rod through the bottom of the bucket horizontally in an X so it doesn't tip when on the bottom since theres no clay that the rods can stick in. This took about an hour, to figure out, and build. I used a couple trailer wheels to hold it in place while constructing it.

Looks like a fish magnet, get it in the drink!

Thanks for the comments.

First off I am new to this forum and have been looking around for a while now and think it is great with a lot of good information. As for your PVC tree it looks like a pond work of art. Thanks for providing pics of progress also, I've been putting some wood structures in my pond recently from 1"x4"s that are kinda embarrassing compared to this, nice work.

CA48, welcome. You'll be surprised at some the things these guys come
up with. There are some very creative people that check in every day.
Spinner, that is a nice piece of work - now I've got to get on mine!!!

This is similar to mine. Nice job. I see a duct jack in the background, Im assuming you do A/C work also.

David C.-I use the duct jacks for installing commercial exhaust hoods which is what I specialize in. Still a tin banger, but not A/C.

The PVC tree idea came from a prev. post. I sat down and had a corona and got to cyphering how to build one. Several coronas later thats what I came up with.

This site is a wealth of information. These guys are professionals light years ahead in pond management. I didn't know other folks had the same passion.

Very well thought out. Nice job.

That's a real work of art! I've been putting a few cedar trees, hardwood saplings, etc into my pond, but have been looking for some good PVC options too. This is very helpful. Thanks for posting.

I'm putting together some attractors that are a compromise of the PVC Trees and the Porcupine spheres.
I bought a 20 Ft. piece of schedule 40 PVC cut into 7 equal segments(2ft 10") and drilled 34- 5/8" holes randomly spaced into each of the 7 segments. One segment got an extra 2 holes. Next I took 60 10ft pcs of 1/2" hot water PVC and cut 4 2.5ft pcs. from each for a total of 240 pcs. THe 1/2" PVC fits tight in the 5/8" hole so that a good surface to glue exists.
Tomorrow I will take to the pond and glue each of the 240 pcs into the holes in the 3" PVC. This will make them 5 ft tall with the 3" segment running horizontal to the pond bottom. I plan to place them in 4.5ft. of water so they will be visible to cast to. Not sure of the cost for each but will be affordable.
Does anyone know if they will float or sink? I can add a weight to each if necessary.

They will sink if the ends are open. Be sure and take some pics, and post them.

Thanks, I was gonna leave the ends open in case some small ones needed extra hiding places. I'll try to take some pictures, not sure how to post em but I'll try.

What size PVC pipe does porcupine sphere take? Thanks.

Very nice work on the structures.
Good luck and good fishing,
Dan

Jwwann,
I used 1/2" pvc on the porcupine spheres.

Thanks

I finally figured out how to post a picture of my structures. I placed them with the 3" pipe horizontal in water deep enough that the tips were exposed so I could see to cast to them. A week after being in place I was catching bass around them.
The 55 gallon drum is a feeder my brother built.