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  1. Al Smith

    Making a ground anchor where none exists

    An 8 foot 2 by 4 works good for that also .
  2. Al Smith

    Making a ground anchor where none exists

    Tell ya what Butch .You mentioned a soup job on that 200 a few times .Tain't nothing wrong with it as it is .It certainly looked like it did just dandy .
  3. Al Smith

    Making a ground anchor where none exists

    All it leaves is a little hole in the ground .You can pry bar them right up and out with a lever and a fulcrum . Now really you get an 8_10 foot 2 by 6 ,a piece of fire wood and a short chain and put a 200 pound man on the end of it you can lift a lot .Little guy ,get a longer piece of lumber .
  4. Al Smith

    Making a ground anchor where none exists

    You hang enough snatch blocks in line you could probabley pull it over with a garden tractor . Then again you'd pull ten feet to gain a inch and you'd need a mile of rope not to mention a pick up truck full of blocks . Now again I never claimed to be a PNW Paul Bunyan feller or in fact a...
  5. Al Smith

    Making a ground anchor where none exists

    On a side guy or stay if you prefer with that small of an angle of redirect it's not putting much of a load on the anchor .
  6. Al Smith

    Making a ground anchor where none exists

    --and again different situations require different methods .Only the guy in charge can determine that . You know sometimes you can trip the whole kit and cabootle and sometimes you have to disassemble the damned thing .That's why you guys get the big bucks .;)
  7. Al Smith

    Making a ground anchor where none exists

    Well now you have to use some smarts about it .You can't make a dead end tie on a Ranger pick with a 2 to 1 redirect and hook onto it with a D8 .Else you wanted to drag a little pick me up -up into a big tree .Explain that one to the insurance man .:lol:
  8. Al Smith

    Making a ground anchor where none exists

    Well you know you can cut it up,slice it 40 ways to Sunday and use any fancy riggens you want to, skid loader or no .When it all gets down to the basics it's just simple physics the rules and laws of same have never changed in all of recorded history . You gotta use what you got and nearly...
  9. Al Smith

    Making a ground anchor where none exists

    I saw a house mover move a house using 4 old truck axles driven in the ground and chained off like that picket line deal . He had an old Dodge winch truck that must have came over on the Mayflower with a flat head 6 engine .Must have had a thousand to one reduction on that winch . I don't think...
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