just to be silly.....
Whod be interested in actually trying some of these out just for the practical exercise of doing it?
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just to be silly.....
Whod be interested in actually trying some of these out just for the practical exercise of doing it?
Best Ground Anchor i find is a Land Cruiser
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
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Originally Posted by sclarke
I was going to say bury a tyre but a complete vehicle is just as good!!!!!!!!!
john
:D That is cherry, Clarckie.:twisted:
And the young fella's, can use it as a moto-cross berm as well.
The whole idea is, you can use damned near anything to strongback a purchase point.
If you can't find one big thing, use several small things in as straight a line as possible, and pull against the biggest of them.
4BEE, the CQR, is a Plow type anchor. Originally developed for the Sunderland Flying Boat. The harder it is pulled on, the deeper it digs itself in. To break it out, simply lever it up, like a pick.
I like the Mushroom anchor, because it is used to hold the Lightships on the Grand and Dogger Banks of the North Sea during gales. If 4 of them can hold a lightship in place, I figure 1 should anchor and pull my Landy up Mt Everest. It works like the CQR, with a bigger holding surface.
If you want a plow disk, go to your local farm machinery dealer, or a clearing sale.
After having a Hartley TS16 (Sailing Boat 16ft long) anchored with a plough and it face 100+ km/h winds from the edge of a passing cyclone got to say they hold REALLY well, although we had to cut the anchor rope as a mate went for a dive when we couldn't pull it up and the rope disappeared in to the sand.... No sign of the anchor or the 10 metres of chain attached between the anchor and rope it was well and truly buried. Even tried tying a 40ft steel ketch to it tightly with an incoming tide... No luck pulling it oujt either.... ended up snapping the rope with the yacht heeling almost 4 degrees.
Saved us and the boat so went bought another! (No longer have the boat unfortunately, would lokve anther to take the kids out on)
A Danforth style would probably be easier to store in a vehicle though