Anchor ID Please...

Could someone ID this anchor?

Appreciated,
Mike

Looks like a sickle bar blade converted to an anchor

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I was hoping someone knew of someone putting this sort of anchor together.
Guess I need to template these bad boys and figure it out as sickle bars are sort of uncommon in these parts.

I lost my communication with the guy who knew the guy making this when the PM’s got pruned.

So this piece. What is it? I just need a link or something to put in the search bar.

Mike that's what does the cutting of the hay or what ever it is that's being harvested.
If you knew some farmers they replace them from time to time on the swathers and combines and the wore out one's go into the scrap metal pile.

I don’t.....
Somebody throw me a freaking link to that sickle bar part?

This has been yet to date the only anchor to hold for my needs.
I would seriously appreciate help in locating either the manufactured anchor or the sickle bar material that I could make my own from.

Found this with a quick google search. Don’t know a thing about this company.






Sickle bar teeth

Thank you elkchsr. Sickle section got me to the part.

Mike

Mike is that the original that I sent you ?

It’s a picture of it.
I used it, a bit, and it is still in the field.

I sure hope one of the western wheat farmers on here will chime in . I hate to see you have to buy new ones when their are thousands of used ones that are just going to go in the junk .

Interesting when I went on that site it first listed them at 38$USD but it searched my location and it fell to 23$Cd, for 25 or a dollar each.

We use them for bottom teeth of scare crows we weld up for the garden centers and the scickle tooth as the beak.

Yeah, not fond of the online pricing. Used would work just fine for me.

I have no clue as to what that means.

Someone is welding up lawn ornaments I'd guess chickens and using sickles for a beak on them.
In some cases I've seen where they were added to a broken axe handle and used to cut bailing twine on hay bales when feeding cows.

Mike I'm going out to set a snare line and a bit of coyote calling I'll do some asking for some if I get a chance and let you know.
If there is a scrap metal recycling center up there they may have some ?

Any Tractor Supply or local farm store will carry them. They are sickle bar teeth. Come serrated or smooth. Used on sickle bar mowers, and yes combines and swathers.

As others have correctly stated.....they are sickle bar sections.....used on hay mowers and combines alike. I have a whole stack of used ones in the barn.

What I'm trying to figure out is why anybody would want one?

The anchor pictured at the to of this thread has proven to have the best holding potential of any I have tried. I was hoping to buy more of that type anchor but have come to the conclusion that I most likely will have to make them myself.
This isn’t ag country up here. Heck, I have never even seen that type of mower, much less a combine, up here. So that leaves me with no local source.

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”.