Post support socket

Abstract

A ground anchor for posts has a leg driven in the ground with a fluke or fin member secured to the upper end thereof and cooperating therewith to form a post receiving socket or barrel. A wedge driven in the socket clamps the post to the leg. The leg is preferably an angle iron with diverging side walls and the fin member is preferably a sheet metal strip folded midway of its length providing legs diverging from the fold or crease embracing and welded to the divergent ends of the leg side walls and then bent outwardly to radiate from the leg providing three fins or flukes in equally spaced circumferential relation and a V-wing between the crease cooperating with the legs to form the socket or barrel chamber. The post is bottomed on the leg and the wedge is bottomed in the crease of the V-wing and has diverging legs providing a recess receiving and forcing the post into the converging side walls of the leg to wedge lock the post to the leg. The wedge has a spring portion loaded by the crease and the metal strip is inclined relative to the leg so that the crease receiving this spring portion will taper from top to bottom providing a cam lock on the wedge intermediate the top and bottom ends of the strip. The wedge has holes receiving a pry tool bottomed on top of the strip to unlock the wedge and permit removal of the post.