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Fence pole replacement

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64 lane

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A couple of years ago a saw a fence builder pull some old wooden poles out of the yard next to mine. I am in the process of replacing the fence between my house and the one next door. My wife was wondering why I held on to these old landscape timbers. Not the prettiest thing in the world, but it works. Thought I would post it. It is still work, but I pulled 4 posts out in about 2 hours.



don't know what happen to the picture, but I posted it anyway.
 
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theoldwizard1

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In the past 5 years I have done WAY TOO MANY ! Some were steel posts set in concrete and other were wood posts, set in concrete, that had broken off at the ground level. SE MI clay. Hard as a rock in the middle of summer. Sticky when wet in spring.

I have used various techniques from shear brute strength (2 men pulling up a steel post with concrete still attached), to breaking the concrete up in the hole (using a San Angelo Bar; 72" of 1" hex mild steel and 17 lbs), to digging big, deep holes. I have broken almost a dozen Craftsman shovels.

The last couple I did a few weeks ago, I used a combination of digging, saturating the ground with water overnight, leverage and a 3 ton hydraulic floor jack. Check this video.. My lever arm was 3 2x10 10' long screwed together. 2 of them are now cracked beyond use.

No tripod and come-a-long would have done the job.
 
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64 lane

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You boys with the big toys. I hate doing it, but when you have to pull the posts, you use what you have.
 
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