Anchoring timber to soil.

[chili1]

Morning,

I need to anchor wooden sleepers to soil. I don't want to cement as I need the fixing to be temporary. Any preference between using rebar or ground anchors? Any recommendations for either?

Cheers.

[TheEnd]

I've done stuff before with steel bars around 2 foot long hammered through the old bolt holes, and that did the trick.

[spikeyhead]

Roots?

[Fishtigua]

Would something like a ground screw work? Depends on how much load is on the sleeper and in what direction.

[V8RX7]

Sounds very heavy duty.

I've just used 3x2 CLS hammered into the ground.

[chili1]

Thanks for replies. I did think about using timber stakes. Very little load on the sleepers, so metal fixings may be a little OTT. Could postcrete timber in I suppose, if I go deep enough and then cover postcrete with soil. I need to be able to return the area to lawn if I need to.

[V8RX7]

They wouldn't need to be concreted in.

The only issue with hammering timber in is that it will deflect so won't be 100% true to the sleepers - if that matters.

[markbigears]

As previous poster says, 2ft rebar through the existing holes in sleepers does the job. I also made small foundations of concreted in bricks for the ends of the sleepers to sit on. They haven't moved.

[TheEnd]

Similar sort of thing, I set some up for a temporary car park on a building site to mark out the road edges and parking spaces.

Cut scraps of rebar did the job, and getting some of them out meant we would put a sling on the end and get a minidigger to yank them out.

You can of course tap them side to side with a sledge hammer to do the same thing though, but we had a minidigger picking up the sleepers and shifting them about so anything that needed to break a sweat was done with the machine.