Patent ID: 8367961

Claim:
A method for producing a ground peg made from a steel tube and comprising at least an upper cylindrical section, a lower section tapering towards a bottom to form a tip, and an external thread extending along at least a part of the lower section, the external thread being formed from a continuous sheet metal strip welded onto an external surface of the ground peg using a continuous or regularly interrupted fillet weld, the method comprising: laterally feeding the external thread to the external surface of the steel tube as the steel tube rotates, the external thread being an elongate sheet metal strip; and welding the sheet metal strip onto said external surface; and moving the steel tube relative to a feeding point of the sheet metal strip at a regular advance in a longitudinal direction of the steel tube; wherein the upper section and the lower section of the ground peg is a single piece of a continuous steel tube section, wherein at least three longitudinal slots are inserted in the lower section by removing triangle-shaped sections in the area of the longitudinal slots, wherein the at least three stripe portions formed thereof peak in each case in a cusp, and wherein the at least three stripe portions of the ground peg are joined together by applying and welding of the sheet metal strip of the external thread and pressed together to form the tip.