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Clothes line anchor advice

  • 11-06-2019 03:48PM
    #1
    boardtc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 895 ✭✭✭


    Our garden is extremely rocky, with 10-15cm spoil cover for the most part it seems. I have been unable to hammer in an anchor unit for our rotary clothesline to more than half way.


    Outside of renting a kango hammer and digging up the garden, does someone have ideas how I could get the anchor down?


Comments

  • #2
    keepalive213
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭keepalive213


    A heavy crowbar should work, keep driving it down and moving it around. Make a hole for your anchor.


  • #3
    boardtc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 895 ✭✭✭boardtc


    keepalive213 wrote: »
    A heavy crowbar should work, keep driving it down and moving it around. Make a hole for your anchor.

    Fantastic tip! I got a loan of both of a neighbour tonight and was able to get down deeper in the same hole with the crowbar and break through some stones. All sorted :-)


  • #4
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,197 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Did one where we got a used car tyre.

    Set the ground anchor in concrete within the tyre.

    Savage job, never any problems after and can even be moved but takes two men to move it.


  • #5
    boardtc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 895 ✭✭✭boardtc


    My father-in-law, RIP, did that years ago in his garden, a really good idea, it means the line can be rolled to a new location for lawn cutting or whatever. That said I haven't tried to move personally! :-)


  • #6
    studdlymurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭studdlymurphy


    _Brian wrote:
    Savage job, never any problems after and can even be moved but takes two men to move it.


    What kind of tyre? Tractor or lorry? Car tyre would hardly have enough weight i guess


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  • #7
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,500 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    studdlymurphy wrote: »
    What kind of tyre? Tractor or lorry? Car tyre would hardly have enough weight i guess

    16"x8" car tyre filled with concrete will be approx 60kg according to my dodgy maths.

    That's loads!


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