Nice Job. anyone have pictures of the rebar set up and being used?
I took a pretty basic picture that I put up a few pages back. I made 6 of them out of # 9 and 10 rebar. They're about 1 1/8 and I think 1 1/2" diameter bar. They were all close to 5' long. I used a torch to put a point on one end and then to cut the other end down to fit inside Johns hammer bit. Then just below that cut down end, I welded another bar about 5" long perpendicular to the main bar. This gave us something to grab onto when we pulled them out of the ground.
We placed anchors in such a way that we could run one winch to the rear of the frame on another winch to the front of the frame. For the rear frame winch, the ground was pretty soft for those anchors. We ended up tying three together to spread the load. They did their job perfect, but being in such soft dirt, I don't think they would have held the full weight of the rig. They would have just pulled through the ground. We used two anchors for the front winch. The anchor closest to the rig was angled down under a good sized rock, and was very solid. I think it would have been fine by itself. We then sunk another one behind it and tied the two together.
It was very nice to have the hammer drill for the one that went under that rock. It went in hard and slow. All the other anchors went in pretty easy with an 8 pound sledge. We ended up braking off or bending a few of the cut down ends with the hammer and one of the "T"s that I welded on. Some rebar is unweldable and I was just pulling stuff out of a scrap pile, so I didn't know what I was getting.
The rebar proved to be a pretty good option for an anchor. It could be easily attached to a frame section or rollbar to keep out of the way. You just need a decent hammer. I carry an 8 pound hammer most of the time with a short handle. I think it would work for most areas.
I didn't take any pictures, but I'm sure someone has a good one of how we did it.
