I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

Forget hammer and chisel.

Forget little Dewalt hand held breaker

Forget ROCKWORTH concrete breaker priced £120 from B&Q

Any ideas plz.

"luke58" wrote in message
...
I want to put some garden posts up, and ...

I am a rank newbie but think it might help if you could say what sort of
posts you wish to use - eg concrete or wood? height? And also how many?
--
Robin

"luke58" wrote in message
...
I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

Forget hammer and chisel.

Forget little Dewalt hand held breaker

Forget ROCKWORTH concrete breaker priced £120 from B&Q

Any ideas plz.



Realistically you're not going to be able to site posts in a concerete slab
like that. One way might be to use angles steels to fix the pot to the
existing concrete.

"luke58" wrote in message
...
I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

Forget hammer and chisel.

Forget little Dewalt hand held breaker

Forget ROCKWORTH concrete breaker priced £120 from B&Q

Any ideas plz.

If it's that strong, and on the line of your new fence, can you leave it
in place, drill it and rawlbolt brackets to it to take your new posts?


--
Kevin Poole
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TonyK wrote:
"luke58" wrote in message
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I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

Forget hammer and chisel.

Forget little Dewalt hand held breaker

Forget ROCKWORTH concrete breaker priced £120 from B&Q

Any ideas plz.



Realistically you're not going to be able to site posts in a concerete slab
like that. One way might be to use angles steels to fix the pot to the
existing concrete.




These maybe?
http://www.metpost.co.uk/boltdown.html

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:11:57 -0000, "Autolycus"
mused:


"luke58" wrote in message
.. .
I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

Forget hammer and chisel.

Forget little Dewalt hand held breaker

Forget ROCKWORTH concrete breaker priced £120 from B&Q

Any ideas plz.

If it's that strong, and on the line of your new fence, can you leave it
in place, drill it and rawlbolt brackets to it to take your new posts?

That was my first thought.

If you really want to move it, get a mini digger with breaker
attachment. Loads of fun.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:53:12 +0000, luke58 wrote:

I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

Forget hammer and chisel.

Forget little Dewalt hand held breaker

Forget ROCKWORTH concrete breaker priced £120 from B&Q

Any ideas plz.

If the top of concrete near or above the ground level then you could bolt
on steel post sockets. You'll need an SDS drill to make the holes for
expanding fixing bolts.

--
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"luke58" wrote in message
...
I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

Forget hammer and chisel.

Forget little Dewalt hand held breaker

Forget ROCKWORTH concrete breaker priced £120 from B&Q

Any ideas plz.



DIY thermic lance?

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:53:12 GMT, luke58 wrote:

I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

Forget hammer and chisel.

Forget little Dewalt hand held breaker

Forget ROCKWORTH concrete breaker priced £120 from B&Q

Any ideas plz.

Depends what arrangement you want. Others have suggested bolt-down post
holders - the only easy alternative is to go for a concrete drilling
specialist - but you'll probably only get a 6" hole, and that'll cost an
arm and a leg...... :-(

--
the dot wanderer at tesco dot net

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:53:12 GMT, luke58 wrote:

I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

Forget hammer and chisel.

Forget little Dewalt hand held breaker

Forget ROCKWORTH concrete breaker priced £120 from B&Q

Any ideas plz.


I'd get some post sockets with holding down brackets made up by a
local engineers (shouldn't be expensive) and bolt them to the top of
the beam with Multi-Monti concrete screws. Fix them down with an SDS
drill and then just insert your posts and nail or screw them in. If
they are concrete posts, I'd drop them in and then use a fast setting
pour in grout.

I'd forget any thought of coring or drilling pockets in the beam.

In message , luke58
writes
I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

I suppose there is no chance this is something important: sewage or
surface water duct?

A modest housing estate was built on an old chemical works next to my
boundary fence. Concrete piling was used to avoid disturbing the
contaminated soil and a large concrete duct installed to collect
rainwater prior to it being pumped through a reed bed filtration system.

In order to provide a reasonable fall the duct (6'x6' and 300' long) was
very close to the surface at the downhill end.

regards

--
Tim Lamb

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:53:12 GMT, luke58 wrote:

I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

Forget hammer and chisel.

Forget little Dewalt hand held breaker

Forget ROCKWORTH concrete breaker priced £120 from B&Q

Any ideas plz.


Drill some holes about 11mm dia.. glue some rebar in.. cast the posts in
situ using shuttering.

Invite local terrorist cell to practise bombing,after their last effort they
need it

"luke58" wrote in message
...
I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

Forget hammer and chisel.

Forget little Dewalt hand held breaker

Forget ROCKWORTH concrete breaker priced £120 from B&Q

Hire a diamond core drill rig

"luke58" wrote in message
...
I want to put some garden posts up, and I found what appears to be a
60ft long concrete beam. This obviously used to be some sort of
boundary fence, as it is rough cast insitu.

Forget hammer and chisel.

Forget little Dewalt hand held breaker

Forget ROCKWORTH concrete breaker priced £120 from B&Q

Any ideas plz.

All the ideas about mounting your posts to the concrete seem very sensible.
However if you want to actually get rid of the concrete, the engineering
solution would seem to be appropriate - get a bigger hammer. 4lb hammer +
chisel does nothing compared to a big whack with a 10lb sledge.

cheers,
clive

How much is an arm and a leg ??

The wife wants concrete posts, so I will have to forget the bolt down
methods. To be honest they are useless below ground level, as they
rust badly


Depends what arrangement you want. Others have suggested bolt-down post
holders - the only easy alternative is to go for a concrete drilling
specialist - but you'll probably only get a 6" hole, and that'll cost an
arm and a leg...... :-(