Ground Anchor Installers?

[veeeffarr]

Do they exist?

I'd like to have someone come an install a ground anchor, professional jobby, do people do this?

Cheers,

T

[mr.z]

make hole, fill with cement, put in anchor, let cement dry.

Sure somebody heres done it.. if you really must spend money then any builder will be able to do it
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[Bomberman]

As above, easy job. No excuse for not doing it yourself.
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[-Savage-]

how deep do you think the hole needs to be? i wouldnt mind putting one in my garage floor, but dont fanct renting out a kango.
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[nick606]

my dad made mine its quite good (hes a welder)


although im unsure on proper kits if you need to weld the bolts or not

edit: never mind my post is a bit useless as they are cemented in

[veeeffarr]

Bike's kept in my back yard (Rented house, but I will ask landlords permission)

I have a brick wall, and a paved floor though, so I'm not sure which one's the best, the wall doesn't look too healthy to be honest and surely they can just dig a paving slab up?

T

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[Al]

Could you not just fit one of the ones that you bolt down.

like this- https://www.gear4bikes.com/images/abus/WBA100_2.jpg

Then you only need to drill a few holes.
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[divuk83]

Just fit one yourself. Can be done with a hammer drill, though after killing my last one I would borrow/buy a cheap SDS drill. I have fitted one of the motrax ones (pictured below) , 2 oxford ones and 2 garage door defenders into solid concrete and it killed the chuck on my hammer drill!

I have fitted one into a fairly large (1mx1m) paving slab and its not been nicked yet (5 years later). The idea of security is to make it too much hassle for opportunist thieves to nick. Nothing is 100% secure against professional thieves. If someone is determined to nick it they will. A local guy had his MV nicked from his garage when thieves took out the back wall of his garage rather than going through all the locks/defenders on his door!

https://www.intobikes.co.uk/products?detail=product&id=000097&sg=OR&st=pt&pt=0120

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Dave

[fredsredhat]

where abouts are you? I'll come and put in in for you if you're not too far.

[dainesefreak]

I bought this lot from Almax and hired a drill from HSS. The anchor even comes with it's own drill bit, took me about half an hour and that was drilling into solid concrete.

[kawakid]

I put in another ground anchor last week.

The bolts with the Oxford Ground Force are utter utter utter pants.

(A couple of years ago I put in my last one, same make it was fine).

The bolts that go in to the ground are now sort of 1 large part and 1 small part that sort of clicks in. However on pushing the bolt in to the hole the top fell (ie bit that pushes against sides) off and dropped 9cm down in to the ground.

Result absolute shite bolts,

We have some better ones at work ie they're all one unit. Its quite hard to explain, but the ones Oxford are supplying are now crxp.
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[Cillit-BANG]

If you have a concrete paved area, then prise up a slab, dig a hole, insert a ground anchor, fill said hole with concrete and float off to match the existing tiles. Concrete/ballast will cost no more than about £10 and should be a doddle to do.

Check with landlord first though!!

[MattEMulsion]

I make all of my own ground anchors whether they be concreted in or bolt down ones. Okay they may not be 'thatcham approved' but they are fooking solid and up there with the best of the ones that you can buy off the shelf. I reckon to have perfected the technique to make a decent ground anchor and if any budding engineers want any advice then I will gladly reveal my methods.
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[colin1]

go on, tell me
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[MattEMulsion]

Well basically get a piece of solid steel round tube approx 1" in diameter, heat it up with an oxy acetylene gun and bend it round a scaffold tube so that it forms a perfect U shape.

Then cut out a nice piece of thick steel flat plate the right size, I normally use plate around 8mm thick, put it into a pillar drill and drill two holes 1" in diameter so that you can fit your U shaped piece of tube through the steel plate. Then flip your plate over and countersink the back of the holes that you have just drilled, so they are slightly cone shaped on the back side.

Next align your U shaped tube through the flat plate so it is sitting dead square and weld the ends of the tube around the countersunk area of the flat plate on the backside. Grind off any excess so that the back is all level and you should now have your plate and U shaped tube as one piece.

Flip it back the right way round and now put two good welds right round each leg of the U shape where it goes through the flat plate. This will give it even more stability and security rather than just the welding done on the backside.

If it is to be concreted in then that is it, obviously you will need to have made your U shape long enough for it to stick out of the ground. If it is to be bolted in then your just need to drill four or six mounting holes to be able to bolt it down.

Here's a pic of an earlier prototype in primer:

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/mattemulsion/GA2.jpg
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[KTM Gordo]

I'd go for the Pragmasis Torc ground anchor - it is easy to fit: they supply a SDS drill bit for the job and a template so you put the holes in the right places.

There's also some phials of resin that you drop in to the holes first that glue the bolts in place.

It's made of the same stuff as the well known Almax chains, and it designed to work with them (they sell their own version of the Almax chain too - same stuff, different name).

HTH
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[Ichy]

Matt, its going to take a minute to hacksaw through that bar, you need to case harden it at least.

The couple I've made have both been different. The first was just a U tube concreted into the ground, came with its own hook to fish the chain through. Its been there, in a back garden in the middle of Birmingham, for six years at least and the guy has never had a problem.

The second, not perfect but better, two tubes, one inside the other, held apart by wheel bearings. You can cut through the first but the inner tube just spins. A guy at work suggested putting tar or something similar between the two pipes to jam up the blade or a grinder but I haven't tried it yet, I think it might stop the inner pipe turning.

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