How To Remove Wooden Fence Post Using Farm Jack
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2022
- This is how I built a wooden platform and attached a high lift farm jack to the platform to pull out fence post. The fence post was 6"x6" treated post with 18" diameter concrete in the ground.
Who ever did the posts you removed didn’t hold back on the cement. Good job and idea sir.
Love your video! I’m struggling to remove some 4X4 and you just gave a wonderful class today, Thank you so much!!
Thank you for the comment
you did a great job on the framing and bolts
very safe put a lot of thought in setting up ,i am sure you helped a lot of people handle that much weight and stay safe .
Super smart support system for pole removal. Bravo!!! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Very good job, the 2*4 support it's a very smart way and the platform . thanks for your video.
Thanks for your kind comment
Somebody used enough cement on these posts to anchor a battleship. Anyway, nice setup, good job.
Yes Orville, there was plenty of concrete. Thanks for the comment 👍
"It actually took longer to set this up than to take the post out of the ground". That is super successful strategy. You spent better time figuring this out than just "iterating".
This is the BEST approach, in my opinion, to remove posts. I have a wood farm fence post that is 6 inch diameter 5 feet out of the ground with 4 feet buried that I'm trying to get out of super tight hard cement-like clay that is at the 2 foot mark. So far I have failed using the farm jack on a board. THIS should work and it distributes the weight onto the side rails thereby keeping it stable on NOT sinking in like mine does now. And wow, did they use enough concrete on that thing? that's enough for a small well house slab!!! LOL.
Great work and thank you !!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Could you please tell me the length of your boards? the 2x4s and the 4x4s? @@Dan-uy9wm
@@bigonprivacy2708 The 2x4's were just 8' and the 4x6 treated base was 2-4x6 @ 32" and 1-4x6@33" . The 33" 4x6 was the cross member that the jack was bolted too. Hope that helps!
@@Dan-uy9wm it does. Thank you!!
I want to buy some chain like you used to pull that post.
How long was the chain you used and what hook do you attach to that chain ?
Love your video !!!
Very nice man
Thanks for sharing your videos #larch boy
Great method. I have a dozen 6x6 posts to pull out soon. But lifting it out appears to be the easy part. How did you get the post moved and disconnected from the jack without it falling back in the hole?
I tilted the post back towards me while it was still connected to the jack and let the whole setup fall on the ground. Then removed the jack assembly and rolled the post and concrete out of the way. I busted up the concrete with a small jack hammer. Worked great 👍
Great video and set up!!! Question, how did you move it away from the hole after it was pulled? Did you grab the 2 stabilizer posts and tip the entire setup back towards the ground?
Yes, I tipped it over
I have the same problem with my fence! It was installed less than a week ago and already one 4x4 post has warped so bad it’s pushed the top of the fence out of line…very disappointing! I know wood warps and twists over time, but less than a week! I’m going to call the installers back out and have them replace it.
Jeez, 6x6 posts and about half a ton of concrete........was that fence for keeping Buffalo out your garden ? Very over engineered fence, but the jack worked well
That's a lot of concrete in that post
A yard of concrete for each post? Built to last 😂. Great setup.
Yep...built to last
How big of jack is that how much tons is it how much travel did you need
The jack is 48" tall and has a lifting capacity of 8000 lbs.
Did you do anything to loosen the soil first? I have same setup and can't get it to budge
No, I didn't do anything to loosen soil. My soil is very wet as you can see in the video after I pulled the post the hole filled with water. It took some pumping on the jack before the post and concrete broke loose.
Did the chain ever slip off the jack and were you not worried about that ??
The chain never slipped off the jack.
@@Dan-uy9wm Great, thanks for the quick reply and for the excellent video.
Wow, is all that concrete necessary? 😳
Now what do you do with 300 lbs of hanging concrete?
Once the post and concrete was removed from the ground I tilted the jack assembly back towards me allowing the whole set-up to fall back on to the ground. Once on the ground, I removed the jack assembly and rolled the concrete and post out of the way. I later busted up the concrete with a jack hammer.
That looks like a bomb proof set up. I wonder how you got everything moved and out of the way after the vid stopped. It seems so buttoned down everywhere and my pea brain can't seem to figure out what you're going to do next to unhitch, tip over, plank under , etc...
Once the post and concrete was out of the ground I pulled the top of the post towards me until everything fell over on the ground. Then just disconnected the jack and platform and rolled the post out of the way.
@@Dan-uy9wm ahhh! Nice
Cant say the fence builder didnt use enough concrete
where did you find the jack?
Tractor Supply
Damn that was a lot of cement . And they didn’t give u a warranty on your fence
You are an animal,..I use the NW Quik Pull,..great work by the way,..those sets were huge,..like I said,..an animal,..how did you break the concrete and dispose of it?
I used a small jack hammer to break up the concrete.
The concrete post do not pull up that easy. I think for video purpose he had already sweated and pulled the concrete out of the ground and then set it back in the hole and then videoed it again making it look easy. Trust me it is not that easy when there is that much concrete to be pulled out, been there done it. I enjoyed the video though. I’m just expressing me experience.
Sorry, your wrong.... I did not "already sweated and pulled the concrete out of the ground and set it back in the hole and then videoed it again making it look easy". There was nothing easy about lifting that concrete plug out of the ground. I had to put a lot of force on the jack to break that concrete loose. I know I didn't show that in the video. You have to keep in mind that the farm jack I used has a lifting compacity of 8000 Lbs. Thanks for your comment!
Now what do you do lol
Um . . . All pun intended - but you've really left us hanging! Now what? Post and plug have cleared ground level, so . . . what next? "Remove" should mean REMOVE, right. Finish the job!
Ummm... I did finish the job, and I also answered your question several times in the comments below. Once the post and concrete was removed from the ground I tilted the jack assembly back towards me allowing the whole set-up to fall back on to the ground. Once on the ground, I removed the jack assembly and rolled the concrete and post out of the way. I later busted up the concrete with a jack hammer.