Ground Post Foot Anchor™

SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE

The Ground Post Foot Anchor™ is a simple idea, but highly effective.  

The galvanized 14 gauge ribbed bracket is secured by 16d common hot galvanized nails and loops under the bottom of the post creating a cavity for the cement to fill during a single pour.  

This locks the post permanently to the concrete and spreads out the load increasing the bearing surface.  It also creates more lateral and uplift resistance if dug deep enough.

If you look closely at this illustration, you see that this simple system achieves the same thing larger molded bell footings do - but with less effort, cost.  And with just a bit more concrete a very robust footing is created that is very resistant to and wind uplift.

This makes it a very good solution for structures like pole barns.  But it also has application to other structures using traditional dig and pour footings like some decks or porches and the list goes on.

SECURELY CONNECTED

The footer bracket is attached to the post with a recommended minimum of sixteen 16d hot galvanized common nails (32 total).  This creates a concrete footing eight inches thick.  The footer bracket is very securely connected to the post.

This product is designed to be used with a single pour of cement.  So the cement fills in the gap beneath the post and the entire mass of cement becomes one hardened block of concrete.

The post is permanently unified with the concrete footing and in order to be released all 32 16d nails would have to be sheared.