Decided to build a few cable stakes and a driver for Ben to anchor his beaver snares with this year. He has trouble pulling them long poles, so I figured he could just cut these if he can't get them pulled. This system is not for hard ground but it works great in water sets.
I used 4 1/2" pieces of 1/2" ID conduit. Mash one end shut with a hammer and drill a small hole for my 30" of 3/32" 7x7 cable.
The driver is just a piece of 1/2" rod 36" long with a piece of heavy 1" pipe for a T-handle and a nut welded on the top where the rod comes through the handle in case he needs to pound on them some. A scrap piece of the conduit keeps the driver from going too far into the stake heads.
He'll just use my short coon snare stakes with the #9 to support the snares.