Snow anchors question

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Moondog55
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Snow anchors question

Thu 15 Mar, 2018 1:26 pm

Normally I have made mine between 300 and 450mm deep. Yesterday I was at Direct aluminium looking for some tubing for HD tent poles and they had some offcuts of cool room coving so I bought them.
The short off-cut is the 70mm and just long enough to get a couple of anchors but the larger one is 110mm and 1340 long. I'm wondering if I should make 2 or use my normal length and get 3?
At the moment I am leaning towards making 2 longer ones just in case we get a lot of snow this white season but I can change my mind up until I make that first cut
I'm interested in peoples thoughts
warnabrother
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Re: Snow anchors question

Thu 15 Mar, 2018 2:51 pm

I've found that the deeper the snow, the easier it is to use shorter anchors as they can be buried into the snow, ad a little water around them and then have a nice block of ice securing them.. it is the shallower snow I struggle with as the ground underneath is often frozen and hard to get penetration.. YMMV though
Moondog55
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Re: Snow anchors question

Thu 15 Mar, 2018 3:36 pm

Good point
I may get three out then. 1340/3 = close enough to 450mm that it doesn't matter in practical terms. I will have to go and get some more SS wire and such tho
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