Heavy Duty Steel Fence Post Repair Stakes, Fence Post Anchor Ground Spike, for Repair Tilted/Broken Wood Fence Post (1 Pack/Black

The old side fence in my back yard was very wobbly and tipping. We were expecting a storm and I knew this section wouldn't survive, so I researched options and purchased these stakes. What a great buy. The fence is as sturdy now as the day it was built. I watched it as the storm winds were peaking, and it barely moved - while a gate on the other side of the house was wrecked, as were numerous other fences in the neighborhood. Installation was a breeze. Depending on how dry/hard your ground is, you just need a small sledge hammer, and a drill or ratchet or similar to install the lug bolts into the post. But the thing that makes these stakes different is the dogleg offset. Aside from making it sturdier, it means you can install these OVER/AROUND the existing concrete footing, with zero or minimal concrete removal. Perfect!

They solved the problem. They are very sturdy and I cannot even rock the fence back and forth, I had my doubts but am now very impressed. I highly recommend. My fence posts were totally water damaged and leaning about two feet after a heavy rain and high wind knocked them over. Here are the choices you have to repair damaged fence posts - Fence posts are set into a poured cement base. Many of the competing stakes are designed to fit between the post and the cement. In my experience of doing this inevitable job for years and years was driving a metal stake with a 2 out of 3 success rate because sometimes there was no gap. So I ended up having to remove the old post, the cement base and install a new post and base. I exposed the posts and saw about 3" of rotten wood. I cleaned up and ended up cutting out the rot back to good wood so I ended up with a gap from 4" to 5". these stake are offset so they clear the outside of the cement base. So I drove them into the ground with a hand sledge on both sides. Be sure to use a level to assure it is perfect vertical! I used a 2x4x8 to hold the leaning side. Because I had a gap I built two three-sided wood frame (I used some old 6" wood shelves I had laying around but any scraps of wood will do). Make sure the top of the frame is higher than the cut on the post. I poured some quick drying cement into the frame, filled with water and let it dry. As I said, I'm impressed they even worked and are beyond my expectations.

If you have good soil this product works well to reinforce a fence post. Very sandy soil may be a problem. I liked that it came with a complete mounting hardware package included, with wood screws, a drill and drive socket. Easy and effective for my situation, I like that

Very happy with product worked exactly as advertised. Very sturdy.

My fence post cement footing was much wider than the clearance on this post support. I pounded it in, bent the end, backed it out, added spacers (4.5"!) And reset it. It worked out in the end, so 4/5, would use this for my next rotten fence post.

First off, for anyone buying this product, double check to make sure there are no concrete footings just below the surface. At times they may be sunk deeply into the ground, so slide a sharp dowel down through the soil where you plan on driving The anchor in. This is a problem we ran into and so we had to instead put the anchor on the end of the fence line taking away a great deal of the kickstand stability this item was supposed to provide in the first place. We decided some stability would be better than nothing. We then drove the spike down into the ground, keeping it snug to the fence itself. Then we went ahead and drilled holes for the bolts, but as we were driving in the middle, the head broke off before it could even be tightened. Mind you the drill hole was not too snug nor was there too much torque applied to the screw head. It simply just snapped off as you will see in the picture with no way for us to remove it , or make a correction. That we were left with only 2 bolts to stabilize the fence to the metal spike with nothing to be done for the Center bolt. We paid a great deal of money for this metal piece of spike. It is marketed as a heavy duty tool that will do a heavy duty job. We felt it was worth the investment. Had we known the screws would have been, so trashy we would’ve went to the store ahead of time and bought screws that were sufficient for the job. We delayed and using this item so it was too late to return it as we absolutely would’ve due to the shotty screws. There is no way we could be the only people that had this problem with the screws they provide. I would think long and hard before buying this item as I wonder now about the quality of the metal support itself? If you should decide to buy it be sure to buy your own screws so you don’t end up in a predicament we found ourselves in. Because of the lack of quality screws or rather bolts that are obviously essential to making this item work correctly we gave this product a very rare one star.

These repair stakes are FANTASTIC!!!! The are offset just enough to go around the fence post footers (if you have footers). I used them to stabilize two posts that were failing.

Ldid not hold the leaning fences as intended, not sure what went wrong, not loose soil, deep enough , material looks durable, it was not very easy to put this next to fence post.

The delivery was super fast. The product was exactly as described and just what I needed. Thank you, Gary

So bought this to avoid costly process of getting someone to come and change a rotten fence post. The fence was installed with a drive down anchor - so I couldn’t use the straight flat cheaper alternatives. The price of this isn’t amazing - but it’s cheaper than getting someone over to fix the post and the fastest way to fix the problem. One thing to note is it’s quite a task getting the reinforcement into the ground. You can’t just bash it in like instructions as no ground is ever that soft. So you have to be prepared to dig down 40cm. I’d recommend getting some digging gloves for that. I only had my normal hand and a knife to dislodge soil. Next the steel once driven in didn’t perfect go against the fence post - so I added some extra wooden brackets which is fine, you can’t see in image but space was tight in my case as had concrete slab right in front of fence post. Overall though I’m of the conclusion this was the most cost effective fix and the fence is super sturdy now.

Don't buy this, it's a cheap bit of poorly made crap. I hammered the spiked end into the ground successfully, but when I applied the slightest amount of pressure with my fingers to the top part which bolts to the fence post the welds at the bottom of the triangular strengthening plates failed. Looks like they were done with a soldering iron! Had to give it 1 star to submit the review but should be zero

It really makes the post sturdy and once you drive it all the way in the ground you can see it's not flexing. Really happy that it has the length to drive down some others seem a few inches shorter which I question.

They are just great 👍