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Thread: Extracting wooden fence posts
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20th August 2015, 01:12 PM #1Product designer retired
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Extracting wooden fence posts
Looking for some creative ideas to extract wooden fence posts that have been in the ground for more than 30 years.
I've tried jacking them up with a crow bar to no avail.
I managed to pull one out with my Beaver lever hoist strung up to a nearby pine tree. Unfortunately there is no convenient tree near the other two.
I'm thinking maybe make some sort of timber or pipe tepee and hitch to the top of that. I have an aluminium step ladder I could use as a tepee but reckon it would buckle under the 500kg load.
All I have is a crow bar, a 500kg lever hoist, some chain and some rope, any more ideas?
Ken
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20th August 2015, 01:23 PM #2
3 point linkage on the back of a tractor & a chain works a treat.
Sometimes you have to give the post a bit of a nudge with the tractor to loosen it.Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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20th August 2015, 01:33 PM #3Senior Member
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If you only have 2 to do then just dig a hole beside them and push them over.
I've had to do it this way a couple of times when the posts were in a tight spot where I couldn't get the tractor, it's not too difficult.Regards
Bradford
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20th August 2015, 02:26 PM #4
A tripod made from some lengths of timber or steel and your lever hoist should do it. With no access to a tractor, that is how I do it.
Cheers.
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20th August 2015, 03:26 PM #5SENIOR MEMBER
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I often went out with the FIL doing fencing, mostly we would just snap them off and belt the pointy bit leftover with the back of the axe.
But if you really need to get them out then a trawalla jack or 4wd jack works well, dig a moat around the posts and fill it with water over night.
Often after the water trick you can put a crow bar into the bottom rail chec and with a block of wood under the bar you can normally lever them out quite easily.
good luck...shed
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20th August 2015, 05:35 PM #6Pink 10EE owner
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Wallaby jack.. Jack it up a bit, wobble the post then pee down the outside of the post (or put water down there) and lift shake, lift shake..
Hard work by hand but it is possible to do...Light red, the colour of choice for the discerning man.
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20th August 2015, 06:07 PM #7Product designer retired
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Tripod's the go
As luck would have it, I had in the back of my mind that a length of 48 OD water pipe was somewhere under the house, and after a bit of rooting around, I found it.
Also up the back yard was another length of pipe 1800 long. The long piece cut in half gave me three equal legs.
Not quite knowing what I was looking for, I paid a visit to a mate's factory that hires out scaffolding, and I was in luck with some fittings to make up a tripod.
He also lent me three plates with spikes attached for the bottoms of the pipe legs.
These are the pipe fittings.
Over the weekend, I'll assemble everything and wallah, Bob should be my uncle.
Ken
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20th August 2015, 06:30 PM #8Philomath in training
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20th August 2015, 06:52 PM #9
A hi lift jack is very handy thing the sort you see on 4wd
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20th August 2015, 08:34 PM #10I break stuff...
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20th August 2015, 08:47 PM #11
water
try using hydraulic power in the form of water , let water soak around them for a few days it may get down deep enough to loosen them
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20th August 2015, 09:19 PM #12SENIOR MEMBER
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Levers
Levers have always worked well for me.
I've had good results with slight variations on the 3rd 4th and 6th photos on this link
https://www.google.com/search?q=leve...w=1440&bih=904
Bill
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20th August 2015, 09:46 PM #13Tool addict
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Dig relief holes.
Instead of difficult shovel work, just force feed a hose into the ground, or make a length of PVC pipe with a hose fitting on one end and use that.
Couple of holes around it, a wriggle or two, and should pop out without any fuss.
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20th August 2015, 10:33 PM #14Cba
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21st August 2015, 08:47 AM #15GOLD MEMBER
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+1 to levers
Get a solid piece of timber and attached horizontally to the posts that you want removed at about 100 to 150 off the ground, and have the timber supported only at the fulcrum at a short distance from the post. The attachment could be via a steel angle bracket, or bolted directly to the post or/and wrapping strong ropes round and round. Get someone suitably large to stand on the other end of the piece of timber and rock up and down while you stand by the post and rock it back and forth. If it still doesn't come out, then dig out around it or soak the ground.
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