HayDay I had read about these years ago , they are a cheap way to make an anchor for soft ground ( sand ) . You can drill a hole and put a j hook in the center , like a pogo anchor . You could also drill two holes and run your cable directly to it .

Thought just came to me that you could weld a stack of them together and make a pretty good Damascus blade. Sorry been watching forged in fire , lol .

Geez.....I feel Jed Clampett.......I just struck oil!

Can you produce a photo or sketch of the whole thing with rough dimensions?

I found a older thread about this type of anchor.

https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/6315682/Sickle_section_earth_anchors

Now if someone wants to do a bit of dealing on a few old sickle sections......

I would imagine they'd be tough to drive into frozen ground

Went out to the barn to check on inventory and found a couple dozen used sections without even looking hard.




Would be available to the OP for cost of shipping. Send me a PM with address.

I think I could find 5X that many on an old broken combine sickle across the road. Easy to harvest........even if still attached with rivets. Place section itself in heavy vice.....close jaws so the bar is resting on vice jaws.......then whack the back of the section directly over a rivet....will shear the rivet right off. Do the same to the other rivet and you are done. Could harvest about 100 of them as fast as you could go. Once the head is broken off the sickle bar, the whole thing is toast.....a dangerous piece of scrap metal to leave laying around.

All anchors are but I bet these would have a better chance of getting through than the mild steel ones we buy today.I don't know of any anchors that are heat treated and tempered.

There you go, mike, you have found your source of these products

Mike I spoke with a friend of mine who probably has a bunch also how many do you want ? A flat rate box worth ha ha with extra tape holding it all together just in case pay the postage from Montana shouldn't be too bad ?
Allan

Thanks you guys, you rock!

This site is the best, yes mike.

You might want to check the price difference in the sickle sections verse a actual earth anchor if you are going out to purchase them.

To me it seems like earth anchors would be easier & work just as well, but I haven't tried the sickles.

I have tried several commercially available earth anchors and they do not have the surface area that the sickles do. The ground I am using them in is very granular, think silica sand, and displaces easily.
I think part of the reason they work so well is they are very narrow and do not displace as much material when driven to depth. Then when you yard up on them the greater surface area provides the resistance I need in this not so tight ground.

Okay, per Haydays request here is how I put these anchors together.



I took a crunchproof rivet and straightened it somewhat. It needed to fit into the 7/32” hole I drilled.



I threaded the rivet through and then a single link onto that. Smash that shut. I prefer a link at my cable to hardware/chain point.





The driver was sent to me by Golf ball.
Pretty self explanatory on grinding profiles to achieve figment to anchor. It was necessary to grind a bit of burr and rust from both sides of the section to get it to seat consistently in the slot of the driver.

I will make another driver head from a grade 8 bolt and it should be simple work with a cutoff skinny disk and grinder. That bolt will then be welded to my driver.

How wide are those plates? Couple inches, each way?

Barry, 3”x3 1/4”.