Removing fencing staples

[Robbyrasta]

Just wondering if anyone has any tips or methods for removing staples.
It’s on deer netting and every staple has driven the wire into the wood. The wire is now rusted and fragile and I worry the fencing pliers spike will cut the wire, when driven in with a hammer.

[woody paul]

Is it to replace post. Just cut with disc cutter twice. 

[Treewolf]

The only way I've ever found to remove barbed staples is to hammer the pliers spike into the staple and lever it out. Over the years I've done hundreds, probably thousands, on weldmesh animal enclosures built with old telegraph poles. It's very tedious and easy to damage the mesh.

If you don't need to reuse the post a cordless grinder with a 1mm disk used carefully is quicker.

 

With animal enclosures there's the added problem that you have to account for every staple and every fragment that might cause injury.

[Haironyourchest]

A center punch, just like this one