OT Fence Post Extraction OT

Biggreenpharmacist

How far apart are your posts?

SouthGaSmoker

If you stagger the posts, you can cut the posts off flush to the ground.  Just finished replacing my fence and this was the option of choice for more than half of them.

northGAcock

YukonRon said:

DoubleEgger said:

Where's Delton when you need him? 

Delton and I would get nothing done. We'd be in the shade knocking back bourbon slush it's all day.

Smart move.....getting in the shade and all.

YukonRon

Biggreenpharmacist said:

How far apart are your posts?

That is totally the thing with old homes in old neighborhoods, nothing is up to code. The fence is hideous. Posts are 4,6,8 and 10 feet apart and nothing is in line or square. Add to that a half aszed attempt at a privacy fence 6ft X 50ft, constructed by previous owners,  with an additional 5 posts mounted outside and bolted to the wood posts and chain link.
My Beautiful Wife sees it at just hanging panels on posts. It is just a bit more complicated than that. Everything has to go and rebuild. Lord help me if I step on her flowers.

Biggreenpharmacist

Can you send me some pictures?  Let me try to think up something before you buy a $400 yard ornament. 

YukonRon

Biggreenpharmacist said:

Can you send me some pictures?  Let me try to think up something before you buy a $400 yard ornament. 

Will do. Lawn ornament it will be. 

fishlessman

what you need with all this work is a new truck. just bought a ford 550 superduty with v10 and dump to play with here. it would pull it out of the ground just fine

YukonRon

fishlessman said:

what you need with all this work is a new truck. just bought a ford 550 superduty with v10 and dump to play with here. it would pull it out of the ground just fine

Ah heck. I got 1997 Ford Expedition, a yeti, 2 BGEs and BP meds.I am ready for any challenge,  except of course, this one. 
That appears to be a very impressive vehicle for you. Those are very stout vehicles.
I will be in the market for a 350 in a couple years.

Biggreenpharmacist

I'm thinking a water hose, a 2x6, some bolts and washers and a hi-boy jack

theyolksonyou

I actually did this with a chain and two floor jacks. Had a hoarder neighbor show me how to do it. PITA. I'd recommend renting something hydraulic and motorized. 

Carolina Q

You could use this method. Only much lower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bneviIHiIKs

YukonRon

theyolksonyou said:

I actually did this with a chain and two floor jacks. Had a hoarder neighbor show me how to do it. PITA. I'd recommend renting something hydraulic and motorized. 

Timing could not be worse, I suppose. Might have to wait until I finish the kitchen. Most of the labor around here is being used in the massive I65 and I265 bridge, highway and tunnel project. I had hopes on having them both done prior to our annual party over labor day weekend where we host a low country boil for about 50 folks.
If I get the kitchen completed, that will be a miracle.

johnmitchell

@Carolina Q.. Great idea I was just thinking of an angle grinder at ground level..

YukonRon

Carolina Q said:

You could use this method. Only much lower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bneviIHiIKs

I have too many concrete plugs partially exposed above ground, or trust me, that would have been "option A".

YukonRon

johnmitchell said:

@Carolina Q.. Great idea I was just thinking of an angle grinder at ground level..

Yeah, I wish. More like a jack hammer on most of these posts and plugs.

YukonRon

As you can see, several of the concrete plugs are above ground.The closest is one that had been cut off and the plug was left, adjoining one with a pole.Current fence engineering. Fvkd up from the feet up. Notice the wire and the 2x6. The 1x1 adds strength?Yeah, I got about 60 ft of this mess going on. Getting this shtuff down is not the problem, hauling it out will be.

Biggreenpharmacist

Is the wood fence coming down, too? 

YukonRon

Biggreenpharmacist said:

Is the wood fence coming down, too? 

It will be the the first thing to go. It is hideous.

Botch

I removed a rusted-out, uh, basketball "ring on a stick" (thanks T) set in concrete with a shovel and leather gloves.  I don't recommend this.    

YukonRon

Botch said:

I removed a rusted-out, uh, basketball "ring on a stick" (thanks T) set in concrete with a shovel and leather gloves.  I don't recommend this.    

I will take your advise.

DoubleEgger

Looks like you might be able to soak the ground overnight and wiggle them out by hand.  You might be overthinking this. 

Biggreenpharmacist

DoubleEgger said:

Looks like you might be able to soak the ground overnight and wiggle them out by hand.  You might be overthinking this. 

That's kinda what I was thinking.  Soak the ground around each post really well.  If you can't do it buy hand, I'd bolt a 2x6 to two posts at a time and take a hi-boy jack and use it to jack up the 2x6 between posts. 

YukonRon

I had thought about that too. I tried moving one of the posts around, and it broke at the base. That is why I was looking at that tool with the chain and clamps for grabbing the plug. The posts are in very bad shape and there are too many preexisting plugs for me to try and do it right while installing around them.
I don't want a lawn ornament, yet I want to get these out of the ground, without causing too much damage, so I can do it correctly.

Jeepster47

Those posts are simply crying out for a wee little bit of dynamite to loosen them up.  You've already got the hollow post to get the persuader down to the bottom where it'll do the most good. Blame it on the neighborhood kids if anyone complains.

YukonRon

Jeepster47 said:

Those posts are simply crying out for a wee little bit of dynamite to loosen them up.  You've already got the hollow post to get the persuader down to the bottom where it'll do the most good. Blame it on the neighborhood kids if anyone complains.

Tempted to use the expander on this house at times.....My Beautiful Wife wanted this place. When it comes to fixing it up, when she says "we need to" it really means "I (me) will do it". Dynamite is your friend.

Biggreenpharmacist

How does that hoist and jack attach to the post/concrete?

pgprescott

Still gotta pick up and dispose of the posts when extracted. I recommend a skid steer or tractor. The fencing should be removed and rolled up into a few rolls for convenience. A pair of bolt cutters is handy to cut the fencing. Stuff is quite heavy. Good luck Ron. 

YukonRon

It has two clamps. One is a set of jaws the other is a three point clamp for the plug 

Biggreenpharmacist

You would think they would rent those things somewhere. 

YukonRon

Yeah, they do. Two places, with a total of 5 units,  here in Louisville. Booked through EOM October.