Moving a ground anchor..

[simon the viking]

just get an angle grinder. You,ll find it more useful than you now think, once you have it. A professional model Bosch blue / makita or hitachi is only £50 in 4.5 inch size so hardly worth thinking about a cheaply. As well as grinding or cutting stone or steel, also useful for very rough but fast sanding / shaping and the wire brushy thing is also handy for (fierce) rust and paint removal. It’ll grind the heads of your bolts in seconds

I could buy one from work cheap enough.... but I barely need an electric drill at home so reckon I'd never use it again... but the possibility of borrowing the one we use for sharpening things has arisen.... so maybe if it doesn't come up.....

 

[classic33]

Could the new ground anchor be set below ground level to prevent this situation in future?

 

[simon the viking]

Could the new ground anchor be set below ground level to prevent this situation in future?

Maybe but to be honest in the long term the garage and a lot of the concrete is hopefully coming up as it takes half of a quite small rear garden, a single story extension was built on the house by a previous owner which our inside space fab but our outside space small... demolishing the garage will help this....

Crikey I'm sharing so much detail about the house I might as well link to the rightmove details

 

[irw]

When do we start taking bets on how successful the wrecking bar will be?

 

[simon the viking]

When do we start taking bets on how successful the wrecking bar will be?

I'm not overly convinced myself.... my money is on the cold chisel and sledge hammer......

 

[simon the viking]

As I posted this earlier.....

Problem is i think it took me an hour to drill 2 holes.....

I'm surprised nobody has reminded me that I've got to drill another 2 holes....

 

[classic33]

I'm not overly convinced myself.... my money is on the cold chisel and sledge hammer......

Who'll be holding the chisel if you're swinging the hammer?

 

[classic33]

When do we start taking bets on how successful the wrecking bar will be?

No bet required, it'll not get both out.

 

[simon the viking]

Who'll be holding the chisel if you're swinging the hammer?

Light taps to get chisel under plate then smack the hell out of it so it flips up, hits the bike on the other side of the garage and then leaves through an unopened window

 

[fossyant]

Best option. Buy an extra bike or two to chain to the old anchor, then it won't be a trip hazard.

Win all round i'd say.

 

[simon the viking]

Best option. Buy an extra bike or two to chain to the old anchor, then it won't be a trip hazard.

Win all round i'd say.

its more bikes that have caused the problem... Little V now has a full sized mountain that he uses for school... instead of a half sized thing that could sit at the back of the garage and I've changed the winter road bike for an MTB so the Carbon Bestie now is going to live at the back of the garage and the 2 MTB'S nearer the door... Oh and the wife's Boardman can live wherever it can find a spot to call it's own....

The annoying thing is we are only tight for space in garage during winter when the Herbivores (a rabbit and a Guinea pig) move into the garage

 

[simon the viking]

Cold chisel found... Tick (thought it was bigger though..)

Pry bar purchased and carried home in rucksack ... .Tick

Sledge hammer not found... Fail

Big hammer found, will have to do... Tick

Off for an appintment now... So will commence 'Operation black fingernail' on my return

 

[alicat]

 

[tom73]

is it going to be or

 

[roadrash]

I haven't been so exited since noodleys tree.