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The Titan Post Anchor is made for wood posts that need anchoring to wood or concrete surfaces. This wood post anchor is unique in  that it allows anchoring of your post and conceals the actual anchoring system. This anchoring system is not like any other anchoring system in the marketplace as the wood posts ends up having a 3″ long circular tube placed up inside the middle of the post.  The wood anchoring system is for both 4×4 and 6×6 posts. It takes approximately 8 minutes to install this anchor to each post and once this is completed it is placed on your deck or concrete surface where it is then anchored down by 8 lag bolts. The Titan Post Anchor is sold across Canada and the United States through selected retailers and can also be purchased online at www.myocstore.com

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Need a post anchor that will hold down almost anything than your search is over by purchasing the Titan Post Anchor. The Titan Post Anchor is an internal anchoring system for wood posts in both 4×4 and 6×6 sizes. The wood post anchoring system is the first of its kind when it comes to the application of fastening a wood post to deck or porch surface. Homeowners and building contractors can now fasten a wood post to a wood or concrete surface without having to look at those ugly external fasteners. The Titan has a long center tube that is placed within the center of the wood post by drilling into the core of the post with a hole saw and then fastened with galvanized lags from the underside of the post anchor. Once this is done you simply fasten the wood post with the anchor attached to any location on your deck surface. Make sure you nail in some 2×6 or 2×8 wood blocks between your deck joists so you can obtain maximum holding strength. The Titan Post Anchor can be purchased at several Canadian Retailers or by going to www.myocstore.com

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On February 11th and 12th, 2010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Otter Creek will display the Titan Post Anchor to the building retailers. The show is geared towards the building retailers who are looking for innovate and unique building material hardware and related accessories to stock on their shelves. The Titan Post Anchor is a unique and innovative product that allows DIY customers to attach a wood post to the surface of their deck.  The Titan Post Anchor is the only internal anchoring system on the marketplace which eliminates the unsightly external anchoring systems that are currently available. The post anchor is currently being sold through a select number of building material retailers and also online at www.myocstore.com

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Good morning Gentlemen,

Thanks for including me on this.  I appreciate direct feedback from customers as they are my marching orders and guide me as my product line develops.

My site is being completely revamped now that I have a full time web master working beside daily.  This update will go live in October.  Many more things are in the works including more videos and pictures of which my distributors are free to use on their sites as well.  So that is helpful feedback.

I read your comments on the gasket system and think I understand what you are getting at but if I missed the point please forgive me.  The anchors (Primus and Fortis models) have a cavity underneath and so to achieve compression around the fastener entry points to the surface require the use of a high density spacer which closely matches the depth of the cavity so that it is compress onto the EPDM rubber gasket to get that seal.  It is about the best concept for this kind of application I can think of.  The ventilation issue you mention must refer to the air space in the cavity itself.  Is this correct?  Certainly it is not air tight.  The corners are bent and touch each other but it is not a vacuum.  So air, and humidity will get in there the same as around the outside of the anchor.

Weep hole are not a bad idea – perhaps on the sides somewhere and maybe even at ground or surface level.  I like that comment and will think of this seriously over the coming weeks as I tweak my tooling etc.  In the meantime I would not lose any sleep over worrying about humidity inside that air cavity causing rust or corrosion at any different rate or to any different extent than what you will be able to observe from the exterior because it is all hot dip galvanized – not electro-static galvanization and then powder coat painted.  This is the very next best thing to stainless steel.

Now you mention you are from Maine and if you are in a coastal community the salt air may accelerate the corrosive effects on the anchors, even if hot dipped.   However I still think you are going to see a very high level of performance with these give the specifications.

But as Robert mentioned I have the first run of 316 stainless steel (marine grade) 4×4 anchors arriving in about 2 weeks.  This was a commitment I made after a 6 month online survey that confirmed without doubt the need and desire for a marine grade product particularly in the coastal regions of the country.  So there it is.  But these are very expensive to make so I can only imagine the market will be limited.

The next round of Titan anchors is the Titan Fortis – as the name implies it’s stronger  and “beefier”.  It has a wider and longer tube and thicker base and is used with a custom through barrel bolt I designed to give maximum strength against post splitting  when under extreme horizontal load.  Testing will be done this winter but it will be beyond the Titan Primus for sure.  In addition, the next run of Fortis anchors with have an embossed surface on top that will be inside the periphery of the walls of the post and elevate the post base about 1/8″ above the surrounding base surface so the post bottom, which already is well above the wet deck surface, will stay even drier and dry off even quicker after rain showers.

I would be very pleased to send you a sample of the stainless anchor when it arrives.  I truly believe it will be as close to a “final” solution for the coastal folks as technology will allow.   And if it has my name on it nothing else will do.

Thanks for contacting me and all your comments.  Very much appreciated. The Titan Post Anchor can be purchased at www.myocstore.com and can also be viewed with video and instructions at www.ottercreekforestproducts.com

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