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In Reply to: Nice job.... posted by Rod M on July 12, 2017 at 17:52:54:
The leverage device is great and costs only $145, cheaper than a jack hammer? Possibly.
But! It 'expects' the picket's head to be 2 or more feet above ground level, which none of these were/are. So I've had to dig a hole down beside all but one of them.
Got another one out today, in the cold. Easey-peasey after a 2-day soak, and it was the one in the tightest spot up against the fence.
The remaining two have tree roots through / tightly around, them. So I have to did a hole and a trench the same depth, to get take the pressure plate low enough and so that the lever can go down far enough and, hopefully pulls the thing out.
LBNL I have a 5' long and heavy crow-bar digger with a spade-bit and a spike on either end, so they WILL come out. The spade bit will allow me to gut down along all three sides, and the weight will cut any hidden roots.
The other trick I've known for years having dug out ferro-cement arrow-head fence posts using it, and that's flooding a hole surrounding the post and waiting 'a-coupla-days' while topping up the water. Then you siphon out the water and as a last resort, use a high pressure hose/nozzle to dig them out.
Makes for a muddy yard, but it does work, eventually.
The remaining two pickets are now soaking and will get more water before I have another go this Saturday.
Trisha has been a very good safety officer keeping recently dropped tools away from my feet. ? Mattock, square hoe, crow-bar, square shovel, and the post remover!
And, Ruby has been helped by her mum to think - about anything else than coming out an playing in the mud, and falling on the jagged top of a picket.
Limited time each visit is due to Ruby's sleep pattern. And my limited endurance ;-)!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 07/12/17 07/12/17 07/12/17 07/12/17
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- Thanks Rod, I just re-upped too! - Timbo in Oz 21:40:39 07/12/17 (0)