Closing the books on an obstinate basketball pole
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) has vanished from my newsreader, but I wanted to end this on a happy note. As "v" suggested on April 25 in that thread, I had been able to score around most of the pole (not all the way though, and I never penetrated the cement) with the various saws I'd used. So I finally did take a sledgehammer. Much to my surprise, I knocked the four-foot section of pole quite a bit with just one hit. The second hit brought it down. I highly recommend v's "score and smash" method to anyone else trying to remove a concrete-filled baseketball pole. |
On Wed, 11 May 2005 20:59:05 GMT, someone wrote:
I highly recommend v's "score and smash" method to anyone else trying to remove a concrete-filled baseketball pole. Why thank you. Glad to hear that it worked. Most of us probably don't have concrete filled basketball poles (mine isn't), I don't know what they were thinking. Steel pipe is typically filled with concrete to increase its weight bearing capacity as a column (known as a "Lally column" in your basement) and it doesn't seem like this would be needed to hold up a residential basketball hoop. It really is no surprise it broke. A long thin bar of concrete wouldn't be very strong in bending unless it had rebar in it (glad it didn't). And without the metal intact around it, a long bar or rod of concrete is all that it is/was. Reply to NG only - this e.mail address goes to a kill file. |
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