Updated 4-24-23
The guys are moving a metal carport for the customer’s camper.
⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️
00:00 We’re tearing things up today
00:15 Working with an anchor machine
00:55 Not a cheap tool
02:05 If you hit a rock need to shut it off or it will break
04:10 Resetting the machine
07:40 Close up on the machine
09:00 Hit a rock
09:30 Pulling the machine out of the hole
11:55 Hole is done
12:20 Setting the anchor for the carport
14:45 How often you want anchors installed for your mobile home
15:30 Anchors or for something less than an F4 or F5
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We’re working with an anchor machine same one you use on a mobile home. This is not a mobile home. This is, put in smaller anchors for metal buildings. This anchor machine has a direction switch and an on switch. There is no faster speed. It’s very slow. And if it was faster it would throw you. As it is it will throw you anyway.
So now, it has an adjustment down here. And you put a bolt, through that. The bottom will not come across. This is a cheap tool. This is expensive because I think there are like $1,000. But anyway, we’re going to put this pen through all of it. Back up I can’t tell. Yeah, huh.
“Yeah. It’s really hard to get it in the hole sometimes.”
Have fun with that. All right. All right this came out. Be better if it had a bolt. Can’t see.
“There you go.”
You really don’t putting any weight on it. It’s doing, it’s still pretty heavy by itself, probably 60lbs. Here, it’s turning real slow, really powerful. You hit a rock it starts breaking these off. So, be prepared to turn it off. It will straight up break these things. Generally, what you can tell the paint or the rust, if you have an old one, will start popping off of the shaft and you shut it off because that means the metal itself is twisting up.
You don’t need to put weight on it. It weighs enough. You just got to keep it straight. It’s moving.
“A lot. Like the last one did, just pull it out.”
“Your pin came out.”
I think we have to come over this way.
“There you go.”
Here we go again. Godd*mn it.
“Let me see, you’re all good.”
“Feels like a big rock down there.”
“Nope. Stop, stop, stop. “Let me look down there.”
So, we’ve hit another rock. Really worked on this corner. Let’s see. From other direction and actually pull it out.
“Oh, should I pull it out now? It is?”
Pull it in the other direction.
“Yeah.”
“I think… Go on pulling, hold on.”
“Is that where the leaves are?”
“OK, go ahead.”
Ready?
“Yeah, go.”
“Yeah, I think the tankers weather it wants to stay on or not. Turn this back to the other hole.”
“Don’t break your toe again.”
Well, there’s a pin inside my foot.
“It feels every time you… Now, we should be good.”
We got six of those down this side, that should keep it from blowing away so easy.
They go that thing will throw you around. If you’re trying to go under with an angle under a mobile home you need to keep pay attention to when you’re hitting rocks and it’s trying to bust, as it will twist those which are bigger in my thumb. I’m not sure that most people would be buying one of those so they can do a few anchors around their house, but it’s 1100 dollars plus whatever shipping.
I didn’t pay that much because I bought it years ago for 440 and that hurt my feelings when I did that. It’s like a week’s worth of profit back then 20 years ago. But I have two of those. One of the kind of shocks you I have to figure out what’s going on.
Excellent. So anyway, there is an anchor machine and generally I charge anywhere from 75-100 for me to put the anchors. That’s me purchasing the anchors, the straps. And putting it in.
Supposed to be every 15 feet on a mobile home, and I wrap it around the frame. But honestly, folks, if a tornado comes along or high wind, it’s not really the wind that you’re trying to control. It’s what’s in the wind. Once a couch goes flying through the wall. There’s nothing you can do. It’s just going to blow that whole house apart. It depends on, a lot of times I’ve seen these houses where they’re flipped over. Yeah, but the one that a lot of times you’ll see just a flat on top of the floor and maybe a toilet and some carpet and everything else is gone. I worked in Andrew and a bunch of other tornado damage. This houses don’t hold up. Why are we expecting to see?
Mobile homes hold up. But this is for something less than an F4 or 5, which I have seen. People did not use anchors and did not set their house up right, the house move. Hopefully we won’t see too much of that. Had a singlewide come down, and the peirs went through the floor.
And it was on a steep hill, so nobody wanted to mess with it. Even the professionals. It took me a while ok…