Re: Finally started on my Texas pole barn!
Depending where you bought your wood from, you should be able to return them. Try pulling it straight up with your FEL. I've had good luck with that when one's available. If not, I use a 20 ton jack and to take out posts. Just screw a piece of wood onto the side of the post so that the jack has something to get under. Once you get the post a few inches, they usually come out real easy.
The concrete isn't all that strong and usually breaks of without too much trouble. I also use an air chisel or my rotary hammer to clean cement off of stuff.
Return it and get another. Brace the new one right away. Preasure Treated wood is famous for twisting and turning. The smaller the lumber, the faster this happens and the worse it is. Try to find as dry/light a piece wood as possible. The wet stuff will change on you when it dries out moreso then the dryer stuff.
Eddie
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My Goals for 2008
1. Fishing and Hunting with my kids.
2. Build my storage Shed.
3. Put my outside access bathroom together.
4. Fence in a quarter acre for Turkeys.
5. Build my gazebo for my front pasture.
6. Finish back pasture and plant it in Bermuda.
7. Start my food plots.
8. Build a comfortable deer stand for two.
9. Build a wood burning fireplace in my home.
10. New flooring in my home.
11. Build a pasture sprayer.
12. Get my old jeep running.
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