Ground anchor

[Danny]

Hi this week i had to fell a tree of roughly 15 meters leaning towards a garden house we climbed up to connect a rope and on our way we cutted al the branches that we passed. When the rope was set up i started cutting and in the mean time my colleague started pulling to take the top off bit by bit.

What i want to know is if its possible to make a ground anchor from some tubing or something approximately 1.5 meters or 5 feet long and connect it to a wrench with for example 3 ton pulling force so he is more save next time.

Would be great to get some advice.

Danny

 

[Mad Professor]

Hi this week i had to fell a tree of roughly 15 meters leaning towards a garden house we climbed up to connect a rope and on our way we cutted al the branches that we passed. When the rope was set up i started cutting and in the mean time my colleague started pulling to take the top off bit by bit.

What i want to know is if its possible to make a ground anchor from some tubing or something approximately 1.5 meters or 5 feet long and connect it to a wrench with for example 3 ton pulling force so he is more save next time.

Would be great to get some advice.

Danny

Going to be hard to find something in tubing, and/or 1.5 M long that will hold 3 ton. Do you have a large truck or farm tractor you could anchor it with? And long enough rope.

 

[Danny]

Going to be hard to find something in tubing, and/or 1.5 M long that will hold 3 ton. Do you have a large truck or farm tractor you could anchor it with? And long enough rope.

Sorry i meant that the wrench/ hoist itself can pull maximum 3 ton i will put an example in the attachment its not the same one as i have but more as an example. I want to make the anchor out of a scaffolding tube with a diameter of 5cm or roughly 2 inches with a wall thickness of 4mm or 0.16inch

 

[Mad Professor]

Sorry i meant that the wrench/ hoist itself can pull maximum 3 ton i will put an example in the attachment its not the same one as i have but more as an example. I want to make the anchor out of a scaffolding tube with a diameter of 5cm or roughly 2 inches with a wall thickness of 4mm or 0.16inch

I'm not sure what the "anchor" is supposed to do? From first post, I thought it was to hold the line, you intend to pull the tree over with.

 

[lone wolf]

Sorry i meant that the wrench/ hoist itself can pull maximum 3 ton i will put an example in the attachment its not the same one as i have but more as an example. I want to make the anchor out of a scaffolding tube with a diameter of 5cm or roughly 2 inches with a wall thickness of 4mm or 0.16inch

You need a truck or tractor like stated, and even that needs to be anchored or blocked up.

 

[Chainsaw Pete]

I'm a retired electrician and I bent 1" rigid conduit (1/8 wall thickness - 0.125") with a hand bender. IMHO, there is no way you can expect 2" thinwall tubing to withstand a 1 ton pull. Well, I take that back. Were you to take a 10' length of your 2" tubing, bury it say 10' down in well compacted soil with a heavy sling around it and fasten the come along to the sling, that might work. But, it might just fold that tubing in half and pull it up, too.

 

[Danny]

I'm a retired electrician and I bent 1" rigid conduit (1/8 wall thickness - 0.125") with a hand bender. IMHO, there is no way you can expect 2" thinwall tubing to withstand a 1 ton pull. Well, I take that back. Were you to take a 10' length of your 2" tubing, bury it say 10' down in well compacted soil with a heavy sling around it and fasten the come along to the sling, that might work. But, it might just fold that tubing in half and pull it up, too.

My idea was something like this for when this would happen the next time we are felling a tree.

The only thing why i was thinking about it is to protect my colleague before he starts flying in to the air.
I hope this is better to understand with a drawing