Fence removal

[peatff]

8 hours ago, Vespasian said:

The ones I've used are electric..  thought they might break up with the concrete but no, they turned out to be very handy..

I hired an electric breaker and a point for the weekend to take out a path in the back garden. I had attacked it with a big hammer and bar and made no impression, it was like bell metal. I was just looking at the job and decided to try the breaker to see how it performed and within a few hours the job was done, no problem. I had to look for more stuff to break up to justify the other days rental.

[aspenarb]

1 hour ago, sime42 said:

Very nice. How long is the handle on that? The simplest solutions are often the best.

 

 

About 6` so its about 12.1 ratio. Two average guys of 100kg can exert a 2400kg lift with it , thats well over double  a three ton excavator can manage. If I build another it will be slightly longer. the lads do slip another pole over that one on occasions for a bit more grunt.

 

Bob

 

Edit; you can buy something similar but they are way too flimsy.

Edited September 26, 2018 by aspenarb

[DanBous]

That's interesting Bob. Do you dig round them first?

[David Cropper]

What about using a farm jack, Utube it. Bit of chain attached to the post after drilling a hole for a long bolt, build an  A frame of 4x2 timber for leverage. 

[Haironyourchest]

Could you drill out the timber left in the concrete balls and insert the new posts into the same holes? Maybe have to chamfer the foot of the new post with a consaw a bit to make it fit, and slip a bit of cement slurry in around it?

 

[DanBous]

I think that would be a lot of hassle....plus I use concrete posts anyway [emoji3]

[Dan Maynard]

We had quite a lot of posts rot and snap off round the garden when I was a lad, windy by the sea.
We had a bit of 1" pipe sharpened a little, with a few nails welded along it points up. You could bang that down into the slightly rotten wood and then we used a long timber lever with an axle stand under one end and jack under the other to lift out the whole lump. Few taps (!) with a hammer to split the concrete and get the pipe back.
This way we could drop the jack then raise the axle stand after each lift to get several stages up.

I do like Bob's lever though, very elegant.

[scbk]

A high lift jack can be useful, you can get cheap ones on ebay for about £30 and they seem ok

[Nick Connell]

We've got a post puller and works a treat pulling the post out with the concrete on. Hole already dug!

[DanBous]

Going to a hire a post puller www.postpullers.com and see how I go...access for digger is poor
4ton pull on these post pullers