"David WE Roberts" wrote in message
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Out, in, out, in, then you hit the gin.........

Started on the fence replacement project and the old shortish concrete
posts which had wooden posts bolted to them are proving a bu**er to get
out.

They have a lot of concrete below ground and to get them out I need to dig
around a bit, then rock the post until it will tilt, and then gradually
drag the whole sorry thing out.
The posts with the concrete added weigh a significant amount and I am
ending up dragging them along the ground (more of them later).

This leaves an ugly hole about a foot deep and very wide.
What I want in the same location is an 8" wide hole 18" deep, to take the
new post and the concrete around it.

At the moment all I can see to do is fill the hole in, with much tamping
down, then dig the 8" hole in the middle of the newly filled in larger
shallower hole.

Does anyone have a better way to do this?


What's wrong with using a collection of scaffold poles, with putlocks, to
create a tripod.

Using padstones and wood for each foot, and a block and tackle, I would have
thought they would have pulled out vertically quite easily.