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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.

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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.

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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.

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