Moving a ground anchor..

[simon the viking]

I reckon its going to be fun... 2 years ago I drilled a concrete floor... Covered 2 allen key headed rawl bolts in araldite and bolted a quite expensive ground anchor in with them... Then tapped oversized ball bearings in to the allen key hole....

Now I want to move it 6 feet...

If I can't prise it up I'll have to buy another one and leave it in place for everyone to trip over....

 

[User6179]

I reckon its going to be fun... 2 years ago I drilled a concrete floor... Covered 2 allen key headed rawl bolts in araldite and bolted a quite expensive ground anchor in with them... Then tapped oversized ball bearings in to the allen key hole....

Now I want to move it 6 feet...

If I can't prise it up I'll have to buy another one and leave it in place for everyone to trip over....

Can you not cut the heads off the bolts with a grinder?

 

[screenman]

I reckon its going to be fun... 2 years ago I drilled a concrete floor... Covered 2 allen key headed rawl bolts in araldite and bolted a quite expensive ground anchor in with them... Then tapped oversized ball bearings in to the allen key hole....

Now I want to move it 6 feet...

If I can't prise it up I'll have to buy another one and leave it in place for everyone to trip over....

Could you weld something onto the bolts?

 

[simon the viking]

Both good suggestions.. However.. No grinder or welder available so going to try to jemmy it up... I'll let you know how it goes

 

[Deleted member 26715]

If you are able to prise it up, do a better job next time.

 

[simon the viking]

Of you are able to prose it up, do a better job next time.

That did occur to me actually... I dont want it to come up THAT easily.....

 

[PeteXXX]

What if you turn the bikes the other way round.
They'd be a bit closer to the anchor point then.

 

[User6179]

That did occur to me actually... I dont want it to come up THAT easily.....

don't worry it wont

 

[Randomnerd]

Just go hire a grinder
Save you a lot of mess

 

[Adam4868]

You can buy a grinder for 20quid ish new.

 

[fossyant]

Good Luck, you'll need it.

Fortunately my anchor is at the side of the garage. Not ever going to move it as drilling the ruddy holes did in a drill. I 'think' mine are removable if there is no lock in place - i.e. the lock covers the bolts or a cover over them.

I'm likely to need another at some point, and that will end up in a trip zone.

 

[wonderloaf]

You can buy a grinder for 20quid ish new.

Good for breaking chains when you've lost the chain splitter as well.

 

[si_c]

I reckon its going to be fun... 2 years ago I drilled a concrete floor... Covered 2 allen key headed rawl bolts in araldite and bolted a quite expensive ground anchor in with them... Then tapped oversized ball bearings in to the allen key hole....

Could you drill a pilot hole and then use a screw extractor? You might need to scrape most of the araldite off, but it might be the easiest option.

 

[simon the viking]

Could you drill a pilot hole and then use a screw extractor? You might need to scrape most of the araldite off, but it might be the easiest option.

The araldite was down the metal rawl plug bit.. The centre of the bolt has got a ball bearing hammered into it.

 

[simon the viking]

You can buy a grinder for 20quid ish new.

Where i work sells them so would be quite cheap... Just no demonstrator available... Don't think I'd ever need it again though