How Long Does It Take to Put in the Ground Anchors

On the assumption that years from now, or may be even a month from today, it will be important to remember how long it took us to get the ground anchors into the ground, I thought I would put together this blog. On Saturday, December 13th, we hooked up the auger that we borrowed from our friends. Rick mentioned that he bought the auger in 1974 and they have used it since then, that's 40 years ago! Rick also mentioned that when the auger spins, it spews out oil, so stand back!
The first thing that we did was to put a mark on the ground where the anchors will go and then we put the "gizmo" that our other friend, Dave, devised that we used to drive the earth anchor into the ground. The anchor is first positioned into the pipe and there is a pin that holds the anchor in place at the top of the pipe. The bottom of the pipe that gets driven into the ground has a little notch to hold the anchor in place.

We were able to do about 10 of these until we ran into a problem. Rocks! They don't call where we live Stonington, for nothing. We mangled 2 anchors and broke 1 anchor before we decided that the rocks were winning. We remembered that Rick and Russell mentioned that we might have to use the auger and they loaned us two different diameter augers to do the job. So we first augered all the holes and then went back to put in the earth anchors. Doing it this way, we were able to do the south end of the field in 2 days and the north end of the field in two days.

Just in time, it looks like a big rain storm in looming in our immediate future.