Digging Up Old Fence Posts

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Digging up old fence posts.

If you re following along with mike s method attach the 2 by material to the side of the post leaving. Im going to show you a quick and easy trick. Brush away loose dirt to expose the top of the concrete footing at the base of the post. Now take your steel chain.

Have you ever tried removing a fence post that is cemented in. Install the posts pole or other item for which you have dug your hole. Then set your post in place and use a level to ensure that it s perfectly vertical. Use fine gravel tamped down to the bottom six inches 15 cm and set your post.

Fast setting concrete is ideal for installing fence posts since it can be mixed directly in the hole. Wrapping metal wire around the base of the concrete and attaching the wire to the jack or digger. Once you ve finished your post holes add about three to four inches of gravel into the bottom and compact it using your post or a 2x4. What you want to do is to lash two of the long 4x4 s together sandwiching.

Plumb the post and install cross bracing on opposite sides to hold the plumb. Dig out soil around the post. There are a few ways you can do this such as. Step 1 dig around the post until six inches of the concrete footing is exposed.

Build your one handed post puller. This will require you. A posthole digger will make this easier. Pull wooden fence posts set in concrete with no digging.

Start out by digging a whole about. Here s a pretty simply method for removing a fence post seated in concrete all without digging or messing with complicated equipment. Step 2 wrap a chain around the concrete footing of the fence post. If the fence post has a large concrete base or is very firmly anchored in soil you may need to use a farm jack hi lift jack and chain to pull it out.

Take a moment to scrape away. Plumb it up with a builder s spirit level if desired backfill the hole and tamp the fill material to stabilize it. It is not easy. 2 loosen the upper layer of soil around the outer edge of the concrete footing using a digging bar.

To prepare for this dig out the soil around the post to a depth of 1 to 1 feet 0 3 to 0 46 meters. Drilling holes in the concrete and installing concrete lag bolts in the holes. Note this will require you to use a.