PineRidge
Super Member
Thought this might be interesting to other members that need a way to easily pull fence posts or the like.
Over the past summer I installed my share of fencing. In the process of finishing a homeowners yard that had just installed an in-ground pool and an ornamental aluminum fence a landscapers Bob-Cat operator got a little to close to and damaged the fence that I had just installed.
As a result it was up to me to make the repair. As it turns out the day that I picked for the repair was high humidity and over 90 degrees in temperature. I had to manually dig out an aluminum fence post that had been set in 120 pounds of concrete. As I dug that hole using a shovel and spud bar I decided right then that I was going to come up with an easier solution for the next repair.
After searching the Internet I found several variations of jacks that claimed to easily pull fence posts with concrete plugs still attached. The jacks sold for upward of $600.00
The picture was my 1st attempt at a solution and used a farm jack that I had previously purchased from Harbor Freight, an old 3-point frame, and a set of wheels that came off an old chipper. It worked fair, but proved to be way to flimsy for pulling posts set in concrete.
Over the past summer I installed my share of fencing. In the process of finishing a homeowners yard that had just installed an in-ground pool and an ornamental aluminum fence a landscapers Bob-Cat operator got a little to close to and damaged the fence that I had just installed.
As a result it was up to me to make the repair. As it turns out the day that I picked for the repair was high humidity and over 90 degrees in temperature. I had to manually dig out an aluminum fence post that had been set in 120 pounds of concrete. As I dug that hole using a shovel and spud bar I decided right then that I was going to come up with an easier solution for the next repair.
After searching the Internet I found several variations of jacks that claimed to easily pull fence posts with concrete plugs still attached. The jacks sold for upward of $600.00
The picture was my 1st attempt at a solution and used a farm jack that I had previously purchased from Harbor Freight, an old 3-point frame, and a set of wheels that came off an old chipper. It worked fair, but proved to be way to flimsy for pulling posts set in concrete.