- 1. Posts-Like big sticks in the yard (score: 1)
- Author: "John Viviani" <geeno@adelphia.net>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:17:41 -0400
- Okay I bought this house 2 or so yrs ago. One of the conditions of sale was to remove the above ground pool. I don't swim, my wife doesn't swim, I didn't want the higher insurance so I could tell my
- /html/shop-talk/2002-04/msg00224.html (8,512 bytes)
- 2. Re: Posts-Like big sticks in the yard (score: 1)
- Author: dms@scheidt.chem.nd.edu
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:00:24 -0500 (EST)
- You could use an oxy-acetelene torch bomb, and blow them out! I'd be tempted to just dig them out iwth a shovel. If you don't really need to get the concrete out (and if you're just puttting grass th
- /html/shop-talk/2002-04/msg00226.html (8,148 bytes)
- 3. Re: Posts-Like big sticks in the yard (score: 1)
- Author: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 17:20:07 -0700
- Yea! Cool! If the concrete is very much under ground level, you wouldn't be able to push them over with a tractor anyhow. Unless you dug them out partway. If the concrete pilings are short and close
- /html/shop-talk/2002-04/msg00227.html (8,819 bytes)
- 4. Re: Posts-Like big sticks in the yard (score: 1)
- Author: "John Viviani" <geeno@adelphia.net>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:02:37 -0400
- Do they make a kit to do this. I was trying to see if the gopher thing would work, Eric and I go half then. I forgot to say. The pervious owner already cut the post off flush with the cement. And the
- /html/shop-talk/2002-04/msg00229.html (8,312 bytes)
- 5. Re: Posts-Like big sticks in the yard (score: 1)
- Author: Steve Shipley <shiples@attbi.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:48:30 -0700
- As much as I hate to suggest the BFH, in this world of machinery, you can do a lot of damage with an 8-10 pound sledge hammer. I am old, short, and fat but I'll always try my luck with one of my ham
- /html/shop-talk/2002-04/msg00232.html (8,361 bytes)
- 6. Re: Posts-Like big sticks in the yard (score: 1)
- Author: Susan and Mark Miller <marknsuz@pacbell.net>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 21:39:01 -0700
- A few thoughts 1. Don't get them out. Build a slab around/over them and put up another garage. Can't have too many square feet of workspace! 2. Like (1) but maybe a deck? 3. Drill into the top and st
- /html/shop-talk/2002-04/msg00233.html (9,028 bytes)
- 7. Re: Posts-Like big sticks in the yard (score: 1)
- Author: Bruce Wolfe <wolfe@cisco.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:38:35 -0500
- If the wood is sound, drive a big, heavy screw eye into it. Put some sort of support very near the concrete (I used a concrete block), but not on top of it. Prop one end of an 8' 4x4 on the support.
- /html/shop-talk/2002-04/msg00243.html (9,336 bytes)
- 8. Re: Posts-Like big sticks in the yard (score: 1)
- Author: "John Viviani" <geeno@adelphia.net>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:00:28 -0400
- This is about the technique I used. If anyone is interested I dug out the soil around each post down to about 4 inches (these must of been installed by professionals down 18 inches, not half-asterisk
- /html/shop-talk/2002-04/msg00248.html (9,124 bytes)
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