Thread: Ground Anchors

will have to try a couple... just for fun

My favourite is still the "Mushroom Anchor" look alike I devised myself.

Simply a 14 inch plough disk, and a good sturdy steel rod with an eye on one end, a two inch length threaded and a couple of nuts the other, to bolt the two bits together.
This can be carried flat packed in the truck, it can be used as a barbie plate. Cover over the mounting hole, it makes a nice big stir fry wok.

You have to cook bangers in pairs Vee set, to make a slot to hold your eggs, but hey it works for me.

Don't get greedy, you might actually rip the winch out the bottom of your truck with a big mushroom anchor.

Being an ex boatie I often used to think that an unweighted version of the 20Kg Admirality plough would make a dam fine ground anchor but it would take up a lot of room.

I like shorties idea about the disk but damn, they are hard to find these days. Mutiple uses for the 20Kg of hardware apeals to me.

I think 4wd Oz tested a series of ground anchors in their DVD series recently but non of them were what they were cracked up to be.

From an engineering standpoint you would want something that designed to "self embed" for want of a better term

I work in the Electricity Distribution business and we use "screw anchors" to attach stay wires and the like to. Trouble is you need a 30 Tonne Proline to drive them into the ground.

methinks that IVe seen that elsewhere... Oh yeah the bushmasters drivers handout in relation to winching.... Ive got the recovery mechanics pam at home and out of curiosity have tried a lot of the stuff in that (not the board between 2 trees thing tho) But would love to see the size of the ground anchor youd have to dig in to skull out a bushie

I like it alot, would never have thought of a couple of those. Will have to try one or 2 next time out.
cheers

Fascinating, shorty. I can see it'd be easy to find brick windows, trees etc on a Carrier.


The CQR Plough was always considered to be a good ground anchor, although I have never used one for that.

When I was in the Norfolk Island VRA I noticed they used the staggered stakes (second down on the left) for securing abseiling and other ropes. (A lot of their training is for cliff rescue).

Ron

The brick building was a great idea... imagine trying that to half of the buildings around...

"Sorry sir that i pulled your kitchen wall out... i was bogged....."