Cheap Ground Anchors

[suzookyman]

Came across this on trademe http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 620696.htm
don't know the guy but seems a good deal.
Al

[pruggerdore]

cheap enough but if the angles are wrong be hopeless. need to be a proven design which it may be but the angles look wrong to me from others I seen

[land bruiser]

i recon i could make these cheaper than what hes asking. Ive been meaning to make one to use on my 60 serries. I havnt seeen one in the fleesh so need to do a bit more reserch. But wouldnt be that hard its only a bit of plate and box section. Do many people use these would there much demand for them. Im looking for a something new to keep me busy. i normaly make alloy bash plates for dirt bikes but been doing it for a number of years now so be keen for a new project

[tallsam66]

cheap enough but if the angles are wrong be hopeless. need to be a proven design which it may be but the angles look wrong to me from others I seen

What should the angle be? ....do you have some plans you can post of a proven design?

[QUADRACER]

get a anchor from a winch challenge truck that has been well tested

[pruggerdore]

cheap enough but if the angles are wrong be hopeless. need to be a proven design which it may be but the angles look wrong to me from others I seen

What should the angle be? ....do you have some plans you can post of a proven design?

NO and thats the trick. copy a proven one. and bigger isnt necessarily better plus you have to carry the thing on in the truck too. will be making one eventually and just copy someone elses

[Sadam_Husain]

I've got a couple here I could maybe be persuaded to measure up, at a pretty good guess I'd say they are both a direct copy of the old firma grips, I've only used the red one when we took it to the costa tuff truck teams event a couple of years ago and it seemed to bite and hold in the soft paddocks over there but it hasnt been tried in any harder ground?





Turoa did some R&D on the yellow one to see how robust it was on the 3 times slow roll then 2 1/2 times roll at highspeed off a clift backwards with no brakes landing in a beech tree and other than a very slight tweake it came out A+

[BlakeJ]

i can confirm its robustness on the rollovers, altho we never actually got to use it marty. Where did u get the photo of him in the trees? is it one of yours? id love a decent copy if u could send me one

[Sadam_Husain]

i can confirm its robustness on the rollovers, altho we never actually got to use it marty. Where did u get the photo of him in the trees? is it one of yours? id love a decent copy if u could send me one

nah I didnt take any photos it was off the winch challenge thread below, you can find the owner of the photo in there somewhere, I guess nobody was quick enough (or expecting) to get the second roll


Wellington Winch Challenge Nov 25/26/27

[pruggerdore]

look at the angles in the pic's above and then the pic on trademe. see what I mean