Metal strainers and gate posts into rock

[Nithsdale]

It's a clipex strainer so ~75mm wide I think. Will that bond hold good for years or will it degrade with cold / water etc?

Jings - skinny!! (never worked with Clipex - was just thinking the metal gate posts we have used before).

75mm... Dig a hole 12inch dia, and go down to the rock. Itl never shift, and as @Lincs Lass says itl last forever.

 

[JD-Kid]

go into the rock or it will pop out

 

[Stewartry hill]

Back to hammer and chisel only need 6 lnches

 

[Dry Rot]

A couple of strong guys can carry a portable petrol generator, then drill into the rock and bolt on a pre-manufactured steel strainer, something your local metal shop could make up. A length of H section with a flat plate on the bottom. For extra strength, support that with a mini strainer a couple of metres away with bracing and a tensioning wire. I suppose it depends how strong it needs to be. Plenty of solid metal strainers still in use that were bedded in a hole in rock with lead tamped in to secure it, then a strut secured in the same way. Modern masonry drills will go through most rock like a knife through butter.

 

[Lincs Lass]

A couple of strong guys can carry a portable petrol generator, then drill into the rock and bolt on a pre-manufactured steel strainer, something your local metal shop could make up. A length of H section with a flat plate on the bottom. For extra strength, support that with a mini strainer a couple of metres away with bracing and a tensioning wire. I suppose it depends how strong it needs to be. Plenty of solid metal strainers still in use that were bedded in a hole in rock with lead tamped in to secure it, then a strut secured in the same way. Modern masonry drills will go through most rock like a knife through butter.

Trouble with drilling rock ,the bit goes in all directions,,been there ,start with a small hole and its soon twice as big as you want

 

[joe soapy]

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Thats the stuff the north devon boys used on the steep bits for rabbits,
tie a stick to bunny, light fuse and send bunny down hole.
the plan , i am told was working, but bunny did not like the fumes from the fuse and came back out for some air

 

[joe soapy]

A couple of strong guys can carry a portable petrol generator, then drill into the rock and bolt on a pre-manufactured steel strainer, something your local metal shop could make up. A length of H section with a flat plate on the bottom. For extra strength, support that with a mini strainer a couple of metres away with bracing and a tensioning wire. I suppose it depends how strong it needs to be. Plenty of solid metal strainers still in use that were bedded in a hole in rock with lead tamped in to secure it, then a strut secured in the same way. Modern masonry drills will go through most rock like a knife through butter.

Just how is a wee Welsh lass going to persuade two strapping Scots ladds to carry a genny into the back of beyond

 

[Nithsdale]

Just how is a wee Welsh lass going to persuade two strapping Scots ladds to carry a genny into the back of beyond

Depends how bonnie the wee Welsh lass is ... I could be available for hire

 

[Dry Rot]

Just how is a wee Welsh lass going to persuade two strapping Scots ladds to carry a genny into the back of beyond

A discrete exposure of fetlock? Never fails around here.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Thats the stuff the north devon boys used on the steep bits for rabbits,
tie a stick to bunny, light fuse and send bunny down hole.
the plan , i am told was working, but bunny did not like the fumes from the fuse and came back out for some air

Those boys down Brayford way get up to all sorts,looks like that time it back fired on them...........