Ground/Sand recovery anchors

Sorry, no links, but Ebay Item number: 300225894592
has what they look like.
Cheers

Hi Craig
I wouldn't have thought the design requirements would be all that different as the purpose is basically identical.
Boat anchors have a chain to keep the drag resistance angle close to sea bed level, as does the winch on a 4x4.
The more pull, the more the anchor tries to embed itself.
From personal experience in a 12" tinnie with very strong current and small anchor, it took a hell of a job with 3 adults to pull the anchor up when the outboard wouldn't start, and that was not a lot of effective weight just sitting on top of the water.
A welders workshop would probably be OK, but I was sort of hoping that boat anchors may have been "rated" to some design standard, but maybe 4x4 ground anchors aren't rated anyway.
Cheers
Ian

Hi Wayne
I agree with your analogy on supply and demand, but if someone was prepared to increase the demand by having a much cheaper price based on bulk manufacture, they would be like Virgin compared to Qantas. More bums on cheaper seats makes more money.
Cheers
Ian

Not if you have girlie little alloys like a Monterey. You would only succeed in pulling the guts out of it.
Cheers

LOL I knew my steel rims would come in handy one day :)))

Looks like an option.
Now I have to head off to the local chandlery.
Thanks and cheers
Ian

Just for the record and no other reason : as an older sea dog !!]

CQR stands for SECURE and not for Coral Quick Release.....

They are a sand/soft bottom anchor and in Queensland at least, using them on coral bottoms will earn the displeasure of the marine Plod ....... they will destroy the reef very effectively.
Hence the need for the proper coral [pronged] anchor.

That's what I wanted to see, so anchors are rated. I called a couple of boat accessory places, and the staff had no idea what a rating meant.
I have a Tirfor hand winch and no way in hell am I going to reach 12000 lbs on that, so it may only be a matter of getting a rated anchor that will do the job.
It would still depend on cost of anchor compared to a specially made ground anchor.
More investigation to go.
Thanks troopyman.

You say that it is rated , who has done the testing ???? Nobels ?? should be on the compliance tested tag ....


Boc

Ok . So you want to use a winch that is rated at say 8000lbs and wire winch rope that is rated at 8000lbs and attach a rated shackle to a boat anchor . Think about it .

sand anchor

Thats what i like about this place, genuine research by the majority.
I had no Idea that a sea anchor would be a bad idea for a recovery job on land.
thats what 15 years working on the Ocean does to ya :P

Apologies for the previous post

cheers

When you consider that there is a BIG difference between wet (underwater) soil and dry (land) soil then the idea of using a sea anchor on land does sound questionable.
But there are some boat anchors, especially those that work like a shovel rather than like a plow that may be useful.

What puzzles me is just how Dave's anchor got stuck in 125m of water. That is way too deep for anchoring a 8m boat, he'd need to carry about 750meters of anchor rode ??
Klaus

how does it work?
Ian