Steep driveway in need of some kind of guardrail - need help

[dex3361]

Are mobile home anchors expensive, I am guessing you get them for a mobile home dealer? Any guess how deep you need to seat them?
For those of you that used old telephone poles, how did you install them? Post hole digger? I am guessing you need something over 12"?
Thanks again for the info!

Here are a couple of sites for reference but they range from $10 to $25 and the average is about $16.

Anchor 1

Anchor 2

 

[vtsnowedin]

I think you want a smooth barrier that will not deflect and let you run into a post. What about used telephone poles laying flat on or a little above the ground. They could be staked in with steel rods or restrained by treated posts driven on the back side.
larry

If they are laid on the ground they will act as a curb and collect rainwater before it runs over the edge of the slope which is fine but at the end of the run he will have to put in a paved sluce or a drop inlet and pipe to keep the concentrated flow from washing out the slope where it goes over the edge.

 

[SPYDERLK]

If they are laid on the ground they will act as a curb and collect rainwater before it runs over the edge of the slope which is fine but at the end of the run he will have to put in a paved sluce or a drop inlet and pipe to keep the concentrated flow from washing out the slope where it goes over the edge.

Yeah, Id go a little above ... or make a bunch of judiciously placed escape channels.
larry

 

[Taylortractornut]

At the lake where you show your status by building on the steepest inaccesable place you can find they use telephone poles. Some roof tops are level with the roadway. and teenager visitors have more than once driven into an attic. One place I wae outthere with a load of mulch and one house with a road level roof has an old barge tow line about 2 inches thick. It had washed up and they wrapped it around the posts and went all the way across. I was shoveling out sme mulch and my park brake gave out and it caught and stopped my ton truck. We did one for a contractor up there that had a job up there. We set posts and went to a crane rental yard and bought several feew of take off a hoist and gantry cable. This was all 1 inch stuff. We bored the posts and put the cables through and then dogged the ends off with cable clamps.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I would use locust posts instead of any bought pressure treated posts.

 

[Code54]

Thanks Dex3361 - you know WV and understand the issues here!

I looked but can't find a site that lists an average shear strength of pressure treated wood VS non pressure treated, or different thicknesses. Anyone know of one?

Please keep the thoughts and ideas coming

 

[Leejohn]

Go here, GovDeals.com They sell used graud rail and steel guard rail post all the time. The bad part, you have to bid over the yunk dealers. But have seen some good prices.
I just looked and there isn't any right now, but keep a eye out there. The rails I'm talking about are the ones along the hwys.

 

[Creamer]

The used guardrail is the best idea to me. I have seen it used in conjunction with railroad ties for corral fencing. Very cost effective and built for the purpose you have. It would be lower cost and more durable than wood.

 

[bcp]

Why do you need guardrails in WV if Colorado doesn't?



Bruce

 

[Pirate]

Why do you need guardrails in WV if Colorado doesn't?



Bruce

I normally dont' like to resurrect old posts but my question is about the same.

What really is the legal requirement to put in a guardrail along my drive?

I have about a 100' that is almost sheer drop of about 10'. I called a local company that makes guardrails and he talked about liability issues of putting in system that is not crash tested. So, if I put in a home made guard rail system and some knucklehead rolls over the edge, I guess I am liable because my home built guardrail didn't stop them. If I don't have anything, is the driver responsible for not driving good? Hard to say these days because everyone sues everyone for anything.