Looking for some ideas on anchoring U-channel posts so that they can't be pulled up without power equipment. Theft-resistant nuts and bolts are good for the signs themselves, but we've had more than one instance where entire posts have "grown legs." I've considered wiring up the posts, but besides the fact there's no electricity out there, the property owner won't go along with that. Likewise with paintball landmines.
The locations of the signs are pretty much all remote areas where concrete mixers, etc., ain't gonna go, but I'd still like to set them in concrete. (Might have 250 gallons of water available for that purpose.) These posts aren't anywhere that a breakaway post would be required, so I want 'em to be just about bomb proof.
Either with or without a concrete base, I'm trying to think up a way to drive in some rebar at angles in 2-4 places alongside the post, so that the unburied ends can somehow be clamped, maybe even welded, to the post. Then nobody could shake the post until it loosens the soil up enough to pull it out. If I do it right, they won't be able to push it over with an ATV, either.
Seems like a lot of work, but it'll let 'em know there's a new sheriff in town.
The locations of the signs are pretty much all remote areas where concrete mixers, etc., ain't gonna go, but I'd still like to set them in concrete. (Might have 250 gallons of water available for that purpose.) These posts aren't anywhere that a breakaway post would be required, so I want 'em to be just about bomb proof.
Either with or without a concrete base, I'm trying to think up a way to drive in some rebar at angles in 2-4 places alongside the post, so that the unburied ends can somehow be clamped, maybe even welded, to the post. Then nobody could shake the post until it loosens the soil up enough to pull it out. If I do it right, they won't be able to push it over with an ATV, either.
Seems like a lot of work, but it'll let 'em know there's a new sheriff in town.