Patent ID: 7033109

Claim:
Ground drainage apparatus comprising: a ground anchor; a rod for driving the ground anchor into the ground; and a length of conduit providing a drainage channel for water, wherein: the ground anchor has socket means in which an end of the rod can be located whereby the ground anchor can be driven into the ground using the rod with the rod then withdrawn from the ground leaving the ground anchor in place at a desired depth; and the ground anchor has a connecting wire spaced apart from the socket means, the connecting wire securing the length of conduit to the ground anchor in spaced apart relationship to the rod when the ground anchor is driven into the ground so that the length of conduit is dragged through a passage in the ground formed by the ground anchor lying alongside, external to and separate from the rod, such that when the rod is withdrawn from the ground and the ground anchor is installed at a desired depth then the length of conduit provides a drainage channel in the ground.