Staking XC fences to the ground - help!

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Annagain

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I'm chair of my local riding club and we're organising a charity fun ride this weekend for Marie Curie in memory of one of members who passed away in our local Marie Curie hospice. As part of it, a local landowner is letting us use his fields and XC fences. As they're only for his personal use, he's never staked them to the ground - which we're going to have to do to use them for the fun ride. We tried at the weekend using fenceposts and the ground it so hard they're just splitting so I'm after alternatives. As it's a one off we can't justify the cost of buying the spiral anchors (they would cost £1000). Does anybody know anywhere that might have some we could hire or anywhere that might lend us some...or have any other ideas please? It's for a great cause!
 
They have tops which tend to mushroom.

Try road pins, farrier can turn the tops over to make U shapes.

Suggest you check with your insurers, may be better to abandon the portbale fences
 
turnbuckle said:
They have tops which tend to mushroom.

Try road pins, farrier can turn the tops over to make U shapes.

Suggest you check with your insurers, may be better to abandon the portbale fences
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Thanks for the road pins suggestions. Yes insurance is my concern. We need to do something that is safe. I'm hoping it might rain every day until Friday so the ground softens up enough to get the fence posts in and is then dry for the weekend but might have to go for a plan B and swap them for working hunter fences. I just feel a bit guilty as the landowner got them all out of his winter storage for us so I'll feel awful telling him he'll have to put them back!
 
annagain said:
Thanks for the road pins suggestions. Yes insurance is my concern. We need to do something that is safe. I'm hoping it might rain every day until Friday so the ground softens up enough to get the fence posts in and is then dry for the weekend but might have to go for a plan B and swap them for working hunter fences. I just feel a bit guilty as the landowner got them all out of his winter storage for us so I'll feel awful telling him he'll have to put them back!
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It might make him realise how essential it is that they are properly staked though, without him finding out the hard way.

I'd be very very careful using any type of metal stake, not just because they could be dangerous to horse and rider but because they simply don't hold in the ground unless they are the spiral ones. I think you may well end up with Plan B :(
 
Rowreach said:
It might make him realise how essential it is that they are properly staked though, without him finding out the hard way.

I'd be very very careful using any type of metal stake, not just because they could be dangerous to horse and rider but because they simply don't hold in the ground unless they are the spiral ones. I think you may well end up with Plan B :(
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I've just found out that one of the companies that makes the spiral ones is local. I've sent them a begging e-mail and followed up with a phonecall. They were going to discuss it in their sales meeting this afternoon so fingers crossed!
 
annagain said:
I've just found out that one of the companies that makes the spiral ones is local. I've sent them a begging e-mail and followed up with a phonecall. They were going to discuss it in their sales meeting this afternoon so fingers crossed!
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Well that would be the answer to your prayers!! Fingers crossed for you too :)
 
Well the luck didn't happen as I suspected....but a local fencing contractor with a "rock spike" has offered to help us. There are some very kind people about.
 
Try the local pony and riding clubs as if any use portable XC fences then they may have some that they will lend
 
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