Oh this was so much fun.

[SeaCat]

Okay so the Cat is sitting here hot, sweaty, and with my arms burning.

This morning I decided to put in place the extra anchors for the trailer. After we came home from our shopping trip I started in.

Of course I would have to chose a day that reached 90 degrees with 85% humidity to do this.

Well that's not so bad you say sitting in your nice air conditioned places.

These anchors are for my roof straps. Picture a half inch steel bar 54 inches long. One end of this bar has a loop in it. The other end has a six inch diameter eight inch long spade screw welded to it. This gets screwed, and screwed, and screwed into the ground. You screw it through anything there is in the ground regardless of if they are tree roots or rocks.

You screw these in until only the eye at the end of the bar is above ground.

I put in 14 of these today.

If you are planning on doing something like this I'll give you a couple of hints. The first is use a steel bar to give you the much needed leverage. (Yes you do need this leverage.)

The second is to not to use wood for the leverage. I started out using a section of shovel handle and now have several long scrapes across my chest and belly from when it snapped.

Cat

 

[rgraham666]

But on the plus side, you're much less subject to Mother Nature's whims.

 

[jomar]

I'm not up to date on mobile homes. But I'm picturing a bunch of metal straps anchored to the ground in the back, looped over the top and anchored into the ground in the front like so much duct tape holding it to the ground. Is it seasonal? And sorry for the new scrapes. Do some snorkeling, I hear salt water is healthy that way.

 

[SeaCat]

I'm not up to date on mobile homes. But I'm picturing a bunch of metal straps anchored to the ground in the back, looped over the top and anchored into the ground in the front like so much duct tape holding it to the ground. Is it seasonal? And sorry for the new scrapes. Do some snorkeling, I hear salt water is healthy that way.

LOLOL

We used to do this up north, but there we called them Nor'Easter Straps.

Your basic desription is correct. Picture steel or webbed straps running over the top of the trailer. These straps and/or cables are rated for 10K pounds plus. Believe it or not they increase the survivability of the trailer by a large percentage.

As for the snorkeling, well we're heading down to the beach in a couple of minutes to have a nice moonlight swim.

Cat

 

[jomar]

LOLOL

We used to do this up north, but there we called them Nor'Easter Straps.

Your basic desription is correct. Picture steel or webbed straps running over the top of the trailer. These straps and/or cables are rated for 10K pounds plus. Believe it or not they increase the survivability of the trailer by a large percentage.

As for the snorkeling, well we're heading down to the beach in a couple of minutes to have a nice moonlight swim.

Cat

I don't doubt for a second that the straps increase survivability of the trailer by a huge factor. As we all know, hurricanes and tornados seek out mobile home parks first. I just hope you don't have to keep them on year round. Have a nice swim, Cat.

 

[SeaCat]

I don't doubt for a second that the straps increase survivability of the trailer by a huge factor. As we all know, hurricanes and tornados seek out mobile home parks first. I just hope you don't have to keep them on year round. Have a nice swim, Cat.

Nahhhh,

These straps are put in place when a storm is coming in. (The three cables I have in place stay there year round though.)

The straps are like the shutters, only put in place when they are needed. (Until then they take up room in my back room closet.)

Soon I will start with the German Engineering of my place. That should be amusing, especially when the housing inspector comes around. (Double the normal number of wall studs, reinforced roof, reinforced wall headers, etc. etc. etc.)

Cat