I am about to set up a Rotary Clothes Line in the garden of our new
build house. Instructions (B&Q jobbie) say that the spike should be set
in concrete. Is this necessary - or can I just hammer it into the ground ??
If I do need to - whats the best way to go about it ?? How about: dig a
hole about half the height of the spike so that half is showing and half
is in the soil (but top is just below grass level to allow mowing when
the airer is removed), then fill up around it with post fix to create a
little 'stepping stone' with the top of the spike level with the
post-fix (but both again just below the grass level) ??

Any advice much appreciated...

"NC" wrote in message
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I am about to set up a Rotary Clothes Line in the garden of our new build
house. Instructions (B&Q jobbie) say that the spike should be set in
concrete. Is this necessary - or can I just hammer it into the ground ??
If I do need to - whats the best way to go about it ?? How about: dig a
hole about half the height of the spike so that half is showing and half
is in the soil (but top is just below grass level to allow mowing when the
airer is removed), then fill up around it with post fix to create a little
'stepping stone' with the top of the spike level with the post-fix (but
both again just below the grass level) ??

Any advice much appreciated...
the last one I put in was just hammered into the soil to about 1/2 below the
grass and it out lived the washing line which broke when the kids used it as
a roundabout

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:42:06 +0100, NC wrote:

I am about to set up a Rotary Clothes Line in the garden of our new
build house. Instructions (B&Q jobbie) say that the spike should be set
in concrete. Is this necessary - or can I just hammer it into the ground ??
If I do need to - whats the best way to go about it ?? How about: dig a
hole about half the height of the spike so that half is showing and half
is in the soil (but top is just below grass level to allow mowing when
the airer is removed), then fill up around it with post fix to create a
little 'stepping stone' with the top of the spike level with the
post-fix (but both again just below the grass level) ??

Any advice much appreciated...

Mine sits in a bit of waste pipe. I dag hole, set it in, replaces the
"mud" to pack it in.

I suspect it depends upon matching the solutions to the soil
conditions, rather than an exact solution.

My parents have a 1 foot cube of concrete with the waste pipe set in
the center of one face, they dig this up now and then to move the
washing line.

Rick

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember NC saying something
like:

I am about to set up a Rotary Clothes Line in the garden of our new
build house. Instructions (B&Q jobbie) say that the spike should be set
in concrete. Is this necessary - or can I just hammer it into the ground ??
If I do need to - whats the best way to go about it ?? How about: dig a
hole about half the height of the spike so that half is showing and half
is in the soil (but top is just below grass level to allow mowing when
the airer is removed), then fill up around it with post fix to create a
little 'stepping stone' with the top of the spike level with the
post-fix (but both again just below the grass level) ??

Get a 2' length of 2" pipe and hammer that into the ground. Stick your
rotary in that.
--

Dave