Home Made Ground Anchor

[Willy Nilly]

We had a visit from some kind, loveable rouges that liberated our Hilux at work a few weeks ago, so Willy decided to step up his security. A big lock was purchased for the tool box on my tractor and a big, hefty looking chain was also purchased to chin my bike to something.

I looked at ground anchors but more importantly asked the fitter at work if he knew of or had anything I could bury in concrete to loop a chain through. He had seen a big steel ring in some drift wood and very kindly extracted it for me and welded it to some old tut that was in the skip.

Said ring



A hole was beaten into the floor of my shed with a chisel



Then dug out



I went to B&Q to buy some concrete and ended up with the back of ready mixed stuff you just add water to. It looked like there was more in there than would fit in the hole, so I dug the hole a little deeper, too deep as it turned out.



Beside needing slightly more concrete I think it would slow any people up that want to relieve me of my bike.

[Jazoli]

Its a good and well used idea, another one for folk without a garage/lamp post to chain to is to get a large flexible type bucket like this



And old u lock



a couple of bags of this



Combine the three and you have a pretty substantial anchor to secure your bike to, anything to make it harder to steal.

Other variations

[Ziggy2070]

Here is my example I made.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Holy thread resurrection!


Anymore variations?

This is what I'll do.

[KTMsm]

I popped into my local fabricator - found some heavy box section (IIRC 75x75 5mm) and cut it at 45 degrees

Cost £5 for two

Essentially a much better version of this :

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265584701049

[marksx]

I had a section of 3" steel pipe, welded a plate with the hoop from big lifting eye on top, welded some spikes to the pipe and sunk it in concrete

[Ed.]

I bought an old d shackle on ebay, about an inch and a half thick. Made a hole in the concrete and put it in with some interlaced bars and filled with concrete.

[Krikkit]

KTMsm said:

I popped into my local fabricator - found some heavy box section (IIRC 75x75 5mm) and cut it at 45 degrees

Cost £5 for two

Essentially a much better version of this :

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265584701049

Great if you've got a sturdy wall or concrete floor to attach it to

[KTMsm]

Krikkit said:

Great if you've got a sturdy wall or concrete floor to attach it to

I have but you could mount it to a big bucket of concrete etc

When I worked as a Site Agent we had people steal our 1/2 barrels full of flowers so we filled the bottom 6" with conc and bolted them to the slabs beneath too - they weren't stolen again !

[cirian75]

Ziggy2070 said:

Here is my example I made.

Now that's the way to do it!