I’ve tried every setup you could imagine, some of my dogs are high strung and will really work a chain until they start getting older, I took some 1” round stock and cut it 4’long, welded an old disk blade to it at 3’ with 1’ left sticking up, I measured down from the top of 1’ section 6”and welded a big flat washer, then welded an eye bolt to a piece 1 5/8” pipe cut to 4”, slid that on pipe and welded another washer to cap, drive it in the ground and attach chain to eye bolt, I tried that set up to end with the chains getting tangled, and not have the issue of the dogs working the chains and causing the dirt to mound up in the center, for some dogs it worked great and are still being used, some of the ones I had male dogs on and they kept pissing on the center post and eventually rusted the eyebolt sleeve, they were something I put together on a rainy day, Austeus the cable set up I’m about to post a pick of would probably work for a slab, I’m going to give it a try myself, I got a pile of pieces of concrete slab that I’m going to drag up and piece together to make a square pad, and fill the cracks and gaps in with sand and top off with cement, biggest problem I’ve had over the years Is not really the chain setup but the hardware for the collar wearing out, my buddy and I had the idea of making our own, I’ll post of pick of it as well, we make them and sale them....
Machine cut shaft with a loop welded to a sleeve, capped with a nut welded to shaft , he runs a machine shop so we made the first ones outa stuff we found laying around...
Next set I build I’m going with bigger posts, and different way of tensioning my cables, I was letting an old friend keep a few dogs at the house and he’s the one who built this set up, I sent him to another friends house who actually came up with this idea to see how his was built bc I liked his designs, I came home and he had built his version of if, it’s worked for 3 years so far, it makes
Cleaning up behind them a lot easier, each run is 15’ long and they have dang near 3 1/2-4’ of room between each dog, I found it good for them also bc they are always jumping back and forth over the cable....
End of the day the simplest and easiest way to go about it is like judge and everyone else mentioned....
Austus I’ll have to get a pick of it but same buddy I made the swivels with made a run with a bearing pressed into a piece of pipe with a shaft sticking up with a piece coming off the top at a 90 degree angle where the chain hangs from and your set up never touches ground...
