A couple of years ago, our system took a day off because of bad weather. A parent called the BOE office, wanting who was gonna feed her kids since they were not going to school to eat. She was pretty pissed about us taking the day off to avoid the tornadoes that were predicted to hit our area...
We always used a wooden stake and a brick. My grandfather would pay me $9 for a quart of pure pond worms during the summers when I was in middle school. He then separated them into cups and sold them to bait shops around Ft. Gaines.
I've seen him use an axe head and have seen him take the chain...
You can do it. I quit dipping a few years ago. I just decided that I wasn't going to spend that 5-10 dollars per day on something that would end up killing me. I was dipping 1 - 2 cans of Copenhagen Long Cut per day and just put it down. If I can do it, you can.
Blakely