How to remove a Fence post with concrete

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11 жыл бұрын

I use 2 chains, 2 cinder blocks, a rail road cross tie, and a bumper Jack. Start to finish this post came out around 5 minutes.

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@petergetinard4811 7 жыл бұрын

That looks like so much fun!

@annawilliamson6982 6 жыл бұрын

This was very helpful for me. Thanks

@robthesamplist 7 жыл бұрын

Great, just need 2 concrete blocks a railway sleeper a 4 tonne lorry jack and a 4x4 vehicle

@FreethemGuyz 6 жыл бұрын

Rob k you crazy...lol

@simonc9206 6 жыл бұрын

Rob k Bahaha

@magnoliav12 10 ай бұрын

I just did several, two jacks are better than one. With one on each side tied to heavy square steel and chains. No need to dig it out first either.

@6771Randy 7 жыл бұрын

I approve of this method. Nicely done!

@whiteknightcat 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but the title said he was going to remove it with concrete. Lies! He removed it with a chain!

@horanstreet 10 жыл бұрын

Impressed me!

@dq7143 3 жыл бұрын

This is how my dentist removed my tooth.

@stevengalanis4030 8 жыл бұрын

once the slack in the chain connected to the truck bumper was taken up the, the jack stopped shifting in the direction of the post hole. I gotta think this is a big key to this puzzle. Am I right?

@Stumpfollj 4 жыл бұрын

Clear the dirt away, then take the garden hose. Plunge it into the soil and flood the dirt out. Wobble the pole back and forth. No use of jacks, cinder blocks, chains etc. You can pry out the concrete with a spade or another pole. Fill the dirt in as it comes up. Try it.

@typar6431 7 жыл бұрын

Geez, they must have used 3 bags of concrete when setting that post.

@ratlivesmatter125 5 жыл бұрын

Cool, how to pull out a fence post in under 18 hours.

@johnnys4782 4 жыл бұрын

Now have fun finding enough dirt to fill the giant hole lol

@whiteknightcat 7 жыл бұрын

I got rid of mine in half the time with just a simple stick of dynamite. Never could find the fencepost afterwards though.

@davec8730 2 жыл бұрын

no need to take the concrete lump to the tip, as it went through the neighbours roof.

@davephillips9258 8 жыл бұрын

The last video, the guy with the two 2x4s bolted to the post, looked like it was buried at the same 18" depth. Out here in California we're supposed to sink our posts to 3 feet. I'm kind of curious if either of these techniques will work on a properly buried post?

@46fd04 8 жыл бұрын

I live in Ontario Canada. Our posts have to be 3 feet deep as well. I can tell you from experience that pulling a broken post with 2 feet of concrete attached, using a farmjack like the tool in this video, is very, very difficult. It can be done, but you'll be sweating when finished LOL.

@lawa4769 6 жыл бұрын

"How to remove a Fence post with (shallow) concrete the hard way" - I mean if he can drag the post by himself (at the end of the video) I bet he can knock it off by pulling it sideways with bare hands

@joedevitto6113 Жыл бұрын

/Good idea with the jack .. if i keep diggin around and around will that get that out because i dont have that kind of a jack ... great job on this ~

@ronaldsanchez1341 6 жыл бұрын

After all the digging; I believe it was easier just ramming the darn post with the truck!

@greyhaired4012 6 жыл бұрын

working for the shoulders down . . . never makes things easy . . . Okay . . . you started out to sweat more than I wanted . . . pretty good idea . . .

@diskretelogik 10 жыл бұрын

I've found that pulling straight from wooden posts tends to break some and others come out with the concrete still attatched. Most of the time I dont dig near as much as this one. This one post was short and had too much concrete around it. Likely it replaced an older post and they doubled the concrete to refill the hole.

@hawkowl455 Жыл бұрын

Nice work. I also loved hearing the birds.

@janinec1396 6 жыл бұрын

Well done

@jfn9014 6 жыл бұрын

Or you can also pull it out with your hands it’s a lot faster than setting everything up

@gerardb.ducoudray8881 8 жыл бұрын

He means it is coming out!

@sddogtrainer 8 жыл бұрын

most of my posts came out with this same jack without this complication - just attached to post, set jack on the ground just outside the edge of the concrete edge. unfortunately not a solution for broken post and concrete that gets wider as it goes into the ground - weird pour! nothing for a chain to grab. looks like jackhammer time.

@whaley798 10 жыл бұрын

This is good for one but if you got a bunch try a grinder or tractor

@checkinout6000 6 жыл бұрын

5 minutes? The video is more than 5 minutes and is sped up when digging and skips some of the work and prep. How about 30 minutes?

@kevintomes1444 7 жыл бұрын

if that was me I probably would have hooked the chain to my bumper and pulled my bumper off

@daddy-bearbishop1714 7 жыл бұрын

dig here..n here over here around here down here deep down over here...and over here ....dont forget about here...

@JC-tm4ug 5 жыл бұрын

Daddy-Bear Bishop q mamon

@sebastianmisseri6015 5 жыл бұрын

It was so shallow he could have wiggled it out. I would like to see a post pulled out with three feet of concrete.

@Stumpfollj 4 жыл бұрын

Look up the video by a chick named nassir. She did it. I used the same method with at least 2 feet of concrete.

@brettbarager9101 10 жыл бұрын

Probably works fine where this guy is. Here in Canada we have to have four feet of concrete. Doubt that this would work so well under such circumstances.

@halr.366 10 жыл бұрын

Just by-pass the truck -jack . . . . the cinder blocks . . . . the railway tie . . . . and attach that chain right from the truck to the post . . . . to be honest . . . . I think that post would have come loose if he just wiggled it a little . . . . it really wasn't set that deep in the ground . . . . ah! . . . . the advantages of living where there is no frost-heave!!!

@lknation178 9 жыл бұрын

same here in Illinois

@bigbruvofenglanduk 8 жыл бұрын

Hal R. He says above that attaching to the post sometimes breaks the post

@gattbe5611 8 жыл бұрын

+Brett “Lone Wolf” Bar I also work in canada and this method works.he just set it up wrong..and you don't need no stinking truck..

@brettbarager9101 8 жыл бұрын

gatt be Canada is a big country. Perhaps I should have said "In my part of Canada . . . " :) Cheers

@12121149 9 жыл бұрын

Next time just wiggle it.

@crazyplanetx 9 жыл бұрын

being a fencer in england for twenty years i would swing a sledge hammer at the base of the post and the shock will break the timber post free and concrete in the ground will be broken into three bits

@anderivative 6 жыл бұрын

you probably keep sledge hammering the other bits and pull em out too

@divenchywatrous9524 10 жыл бұрын

its done man its done... lol That was awesome

@Krazeyeyed 6 жыл бұрын

Just hit the part worked a sledgehammer and it will crack the concrete and you can pull it out with your hands WTF everybody

@anderivative 6 жыл бұрын

that's a damn good point

@Mars-jt6vd 7 жыл бұрын

good.

@crazyplanetx 9 жыл бұрын

or grab the top of the post in move it back and forward and it will become loser and looser in the ground.

@bigbruvofenglanduk 8 жыл бұрын

chris og Sometimes

@typar6431 7 жыл бұрын

chris topher ya right, lol

@MC_ToyDawg 4 жыл бұрын

Holy crap thats an unnecessary amount of concrete.

@simbiods3 3 жыл бұрын

yeah!

@jaketamburro5193 8 жыл бұрын

The easiest way to do this if you were able to get the truck back there is to take a come a long wrap the cable around the footing and find an anchor point on the truck does the same thing in half the time

@stevenorris6394 6 жыл бұрын

Jake Tamburro ,I fins it to get the truck in a backyard with only a 3 foot gate ! Lol

@thedyslexic9936 7 жыл бұрын

you'd be sweating less if you didn't do this at high noon.

@daddy-bearbishop1714 7 жыл бұрын

around n around n around here...about half mile down .....

@hj8607 5 жыл бұрын

Just cut off pipe at ~ 4 " and stuff it with C4 !! Boom, done .

@rareform6747 7 жыл бұрын

Simple , use a farm jack all by it's self ! you already have a lever ????

@edwardsmith9092 5 жыл бұрын

The cement base was surrounded by all sand you could have just pushed the post and it would have popped out

@MrOzzy281 7 жыл бұрын

why use a jack? just tie the chain to the concrete and truck then drive

@diskretelogik 7 жыл бұрын

You are right that a truck and chain would have been enough. There's a couple of reasons why I did it this way. For starters, my truck did not have a stronger receiver hitch and only the stock bumper. That's only rated for 500 lbs tongue weight. I did not want to drive around with a bent bumper in the event that the pole was stronger than I thought. The reason the jack was a safer option was because it's more of a static force as opposed to the dynamic force of yanking on it with the truck only. Hind sight being 20/20, after it was all said and done, I agree the bumper could have done it. Better to be safe than sorry.

@mitchmitchell8175 5 жыл бұрын

Wowwwwww

@mysterytour5983 6 жыл бұрын

Not an easy job but at least not dangerous!

@Kennykoo65 5 жыл бұрын

Why not cut the pole, break up a few inches of the top concrete, cover with dirt and have a beer?

@checkinout6000 6 жыл бұрын

30 seconds with an 80# chipping hammer

@johnnypea5369 9 жыл бұрын

you didn't use concrete to remove the fence post

@eggbert1978 9 жыл бұрын

Johnny Pea LOL, no he did not !

@TheSilverHatchet 7 жыл бұрын

LOL That's because you're good at abstract thought. Not concrete thought.

@privatebubba8876 7 жыл бұрын

Yes he did, he wrapped the chain around it.

@thedyslexic9936 6 жыл бұрын

why would he use concrete to "remove" the post....

@shitslinger4959 6 жыл бұрын

A very long winded way to work!

@rodneyzurek4900 4 жыл бұрын

Why not dynamite? For all the effort!

@wiseranjuan 10 жыл бұрын

why dont pull it out whit the truck ?

@halr.366 10 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking . . . by-pass the truck -jack . . . . the cinder blocks . . . . the railway tie . . . . and attach that chain right from the truck to the post . . . . but to be honest . . . . I think that post would have come loose if he just wiggled it a little . . . . it really wasn't set that deep in the ground . . . . ah! . . . . the advantages of living where there is no frost-heave!!!

@eggbert1978 9 жыл бұрын

wiseranjuan If he did not do it right it could be rough on the transmission, esp it it was a chevy!

@larryjackson4632 9 жыл бұрын

John Schlenker-lol, NO

@bigbruvofenglanduk 8 жыл бұрын

wiseranjuan He said it sometimes breaks the post

@shitslinger4959 6 жыл бұрын

What the fuck does “WHIT” mean?

@gerrybee4191 7 жыл бұрын

since the chain was hooked up to the truck....why didn't he just yank the post out with the truck???????? Works every time! That guy wasted a lot of his...time..and mine ....

@diskretelogik 7 жыл бұрын

Gerry BEE (copy and pasted) You are right that a truck and chain would have been enough. There's a couple of reasons why I did it this way. For starters, my truck did not have a stronger receiver hitch and only the stock bumper. That's only rated for 500 lbs tongue weight. I did not want to drive around with a bent bumper in the event that the pole was stronger than I thought. The reason the jack was a safer option was because it's more of a static force as opposed to the dynamic force of yanking on it with the truck only. Hind sight being 20/20, after it was all said and done, I agree the bumper could have done it. Better to be safe than sorry.

@toofine9 8 жыл бұрын

he did it the stupid long way..just dig around it and pull it out

@savoirfaire8979 7 жыл бұрын

toofine9: No way to dig it out faster.

@brianmurrell6943 6 жыл бұрын

For a post dig as shallow as that, with the amount of digging he already did, it probably would have wiggled out. He dug at least halfway down the concrete.

@JC-tm4ug 5 жыл бұрын

toofine9 Que mamon

@danielhuber1153 5 жыл бұрын

no helper because he got hit over the head with the jack in the practice video

@shawnprime1143 3 жыл бұрын

LOL!🤣

@TNAquarius 7 жыл бұрын

Way too much effort in that, all he needed was WD40, duct tape, a pocket knife, beer and a friend to watch.

@JC-tm4ug 5 жыл бұрын

Q Mamon

@Jack-rg6xf 9 жыл бұрын

Pitiful, just pitiful.

@anderivative 6 жыл бұрын

*pitfull

@justincabrera3198 9 жыл бұрын

well this is just upsetting. ive been working for my dads fence company for 5 years now and if i took as long as this guy did i would owe my dad money. let me lend you some advice. -First dig a hole next to the footing. -Next get a tamping bar (preferably 8' and sharp) and break the concrete next to the post. -Lastly pull the post away from the footing and be a man and pull it out. This method will likely take anywhere from 1 minute to 3 minutes NO MORE. i can guess that the actual time it took you to remove that post was 12- 18 minutes. For your employers sake never do that again and use my method.

@robbierob6603 9 жыл бұрын

justin cabrera You guys remove footings to install new fence on the same fence line? I just dig a new hole with an auger right next to the old footing.. the heck with taking them out. leave them underground.. its not gonna hurt anyone

@ronaldscalf3418 7 жыл бұрын

justin cabrera it's called a rock bar

@ronaldscalf3418 7 жыл бұрын

Robbie Rob you have to what the customer wants

@vinniesquad4312 4 жыл бұрын

What in the world.....

@kechumgreen8893 6 жыл бұрын

with a little more digging you wouldn't have had to do all the rigging...imo

@diskretelogik 6 жыл бұрын

Darren Griggs agreed

@retroeddie 8 жыл бұрын

5 minutes my ass....just the digging must have taken at least 5 minutes. The video is 6 minutes...including the fast fwd digging. Just sayin...

@ronaldscalf3418 7 жыл бұрын

I do not understand why are there so many videos of people rapping the chain around the concrete when all you have to do is wrap it around the post 3 times open over the chain back down the chain and hook it and it will grab the post

@isidoroleon6268 2 жыл бұрын

bc most fence posts at least partially rotted at the bottom and they snap off under press....

@davidcraft9989 6 жыл бұрын

bruh, that thing wasnt even deep.. you could of just dug it out in like 5 minutes... i was expecting it to be 3 feet in the ground

@diskretelogik 6 жыл бұрын

David Craft I know, right? Guess my x ray vision was wasn't working that day. Glad to see we are both on the same page at first glance, it looks like it could have been 3 feet deep, huh?

@davidcraft9989 6 жыл бұрын

i just dug up 30 of those 3 feet deep.. you dont need xray vision...

@diskretelogik 6 жыл бұрын

David Craft 30? That is way too many. If it had been me, I would have started evaluating my life choices after 6 or 7.

@davidcraft9989 6 жыл бұрын

its called exercise... you should try it

@diskretelogik 6 жыл бұрын

David Craft You bet. But without a healthy diet, you're pretty much just ice skating uphill, am I right?

@allis190xt 8 жыл бұрын

so dumb it was almost loose after you dug with a few more swaps and some back and forth motion i would have had it out in 1/5 the time

@chrisbatchelor3717 5 жыл бұрын

OMG it was only in the ground 1ft LOL Just dig down 1ft next to it for 5min and tilt it over and it comes out Ha ha ha ha aha 400k views ha ha ha ha

@charlesbeasley3637 5 жыл бұрын

24 to 36 inch minimum for posts

@chrisbatchelor3717 5 жыл бұрын

@@charlesbeasley3637 yes but look at the video. the post in the video is only set a foot in the ground. "Charlie bit my finger"

@charlesbeasley3637 5 жыл бұрын

@@chrisbatchelor3717 sorry that common sense doesn't come naturally to you . Obvious !!!!!!-

@chrisbatchelor3717 5 жыл бұрын

@@charlesbeasley3637 Ive been installing fences everyday for 20 years. We remove post footings almost everyday. And you know more then me? Ha ha ha ha ha