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Posted by Ron Lyle on September 28, 2007, 7:09 am
I am going to replace my wood fence and need to remove the old post.
Any advice on how to removing the old post from the ground, would be
very helpful. Any hints on hod to get the post streight and plum?
Ron
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Posted by Don Phillipson on September 28, 2007, 7:40 am
> I am going to replace my wood fence and need to remove the old post.
> Any advice on how to removing the old post from the ground, would be
> very helpful.
Advisers would need to know first what the old post is made
of (wood, metal, concrete), how deep it runs, whether its
base is set in concrete etc.
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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Posted by Tony Hwang on September 28, 2007, 9:51 am
Don Phillipson wrote:
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>
>>I am going to replace my wood fence and need to remove the old post.
>>Any advice on how to removing the old post from the ground, would be
>>very helpful.
>
>
> Advisers would need to know first what the old post is made
> of (wood, metal, concrete), how deep it runs, whether its
> base is set in concrete etc.
>
Hi,
OP said wood fence.
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Posted by DerbyDad03 on September 28, 2007, 10:27 am
> Don Phillipson wrote:
>
> >>I am going to replace my wood fence and need to remove the old post.
> >>Any advice on how to removing the old post from the ground, would be
> >>very helpful.
>
> > Advisers would need to know first what the old post is made
> > of (wood, metal, concrete), how deep it runs, whether its
> > base is set in concrete etc.
>
> Hi,
-- OP said wood fence.
OP said wood *fence*, not wood *post* so Don's question is still
valid.
In addition, the questions about the depth and the use concrete are
also valid.
If the post was set in concrete then the base is most likely wider
than the exposed portion of the post and a simple tug with a bumper
jack or fulcrum might not budge it until the concrete is fully
exposed. If the installer went even further and placed re-bar
horizontally through the concrete, then even more digging might be
required before the post can be lifted out.
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Posted by terry on September 28, 2007, 10:56 am
Presuming wood; if old posts could be cut off level with ground? Or
very close to it (how deep is the grass or other ground cover around
posts). Note.
Might save removing all, or at least some of them!
Perhaps by changing the post spacing slightly only the corner post
would have to come out?
Then abandon old post stubs which will eventually rot away?
Place new posts (of treated wood or metal?) in new locations. Build
new fence.
Idea?
Note; Even if old posts were/are metal a horizontally cutting electric
(chop?) saw could hack them off. You can use those saws to cut up a
whole car; so a few wood or metal posts at ground level should be do-
able?
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