Tuesday, May 05, 2015 at 15:32
WOW, I didn't realise that particular brand of store bought ground anchor was that expensive. Not saying they don't cost that much, I haven't even priced one yet.
I could knock up one myself, but why go to that trouble if they aren't quite what the advertising claims them to be. Hence my question.
I have heard of people using a number of star pickets hooked together. I was wondering how a standard picket would stand up to having 10,000 lbs applied to the primary dropper. The one the winch line is hooked up to without some sort of additional bracing.
Then of course you need to extract them from whatever depth after use.
I have only personally been in a situation once where some sort of anchor system would have come in very handy. Would have saved me about 4 hours of shovelling and hi lift jacking and packing whatever was handy under the wheels. I remember thinking at the time how appropriate the name "
Lake Disappointment" was. About 3" of crust and bottomless chocolate pudding underneath. 2 spare wheels and tyres did see some action as jack bases. My blocks of wood just vanished into the "pudding".
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