Removing fence posts

[EddieWalker]

You are getting all sorts of ways to do this, but I would go with the simplist, easiest first. Most wooden posts that I've come across have just a single sack of concrete poured around the post to hold it in place. This works fine for keeping the post in place, but offers very little resistance to pulling them out.

When I go on a job, I screw a bock of wood to the side of the post and jack them out with my 2 1/2 ton bottle jack. Once it comes out a couple of inches, I can do the rest by hand.

With a tractor, I just wrap the chain around it a few times and lift straight up with the loader. If your loader wont lift it, try wiggling the post around a little by pushing it or driving it back and forth while it's still attached to the post with the chain. Usually it doesn't take much to break it free, and then it will lift straight up.

Eddie

 

[boggen]

Similar thought to Boggen's.
Haven't pulled fence posts, but I think there is an easy way to get an A frame.
I have a "Gorilla" ladder. Heavy aluminum. Folds flat, can be opened as an A frame or 180 degrees to a flat extension ladder. 4 pieces for variable height when extended and one leg can be longer than the other. You can get a height of about 6' on the one I have when opened as an A frame. Seems like you could put it directly over the post, connect down low and pull straight up and out even if the post is 4' deep. Would want to rig some sort of pulley or something between the top rungs so you don't rip them up with the chain or rope.

And when you are done pulling the posts, you have a great ladder for other things

Gorilla Ladder

hhhmmsss i think the ladder would be destroyed in a heart beat.

A frame might be Two 4x4's for the legs, then say 2x4 between the 2 legs. and some sort of notch in the very top of the A. to hold the chain to keep it from slipping out of place.

a ladder as you noted would have 2 A frames (one on each side), that is not wanted, but a single A frame. so the entire A frame pivots were the legs contact the ground.

((in the diagram, i drew up. i should of just drew a single line were the A frame was, and labeled it "A frame" vs showing the A look in the diagram))

not an engineer. nor done the A frame deal myself yet. but simply and easy enough to do.

 

[noob]

I have removed a number of fence posts using a chain over a truck wheel rim, using a tractor to pull the chain. Using the wheel rim as a fulcrum converts the forward motion of the tractor to a pull-up force. We tried the 3ph first with no luck. The chain over the rim method worked much better.

good advice "truck wheel". When i first moved here about 4 yrs ago, the proprty was fenced many years ago as a horse pasture. the fence had degraded to point where the rails could be broken off the posts by hand. i wanted to take the rails and posts down because the horse pasture is now my front and back yard. Right after settlement on this property, i wasnt in a financial position to buy my La3400 that I have now, so I rented a BX24 with a BH. and thought I could pull the posts with the BH. Nooooooowayyyyyyy!. I tried to simply xhain the posts to the BH bucket and lift.... Nooooway! I ended up using the back hoe to dig around the posts down abot 16 inches below the surface and tried to lift them with a chain..... Nooooooway!. I ended up just snapping them off with the BH bucket below grade and back fiiled the holes to surface grade. AS i was working on the last post, my neighbor was walking his dog and said get a "wheel", put the chain around the post at groung level, lay the chain across the wheel, and pull the chain with the tractor. The posts will come right up. It worked so well I wished he had given the advice before all that digging. This is the reason why I have been lurking and finally joined this forum. Old farmers advice is hard to come by nowadays!.

 

[noob]

I have removed a number of fence posts using a chain over a truck wheel rim, using a tractor to pull the chain. Using the wheel rim as a fulcrum converts the forward motion of the tractor to a pull-up force. We tried the 3ph first with no luck. The chain over the rim method worked much better.

good advice "truck wheel". When i first moved here about 4 yrs ago, the proprty was fenced many years ago as a horse pasture. the fence had degraded to point where the rails could be broken off the posts by hand. i wanted to take the rails and posts down because the horse pasture is now my front and back yard. Right after settlement on this property, i wasnt in a financial position to buy my La3400 that I have now, so I rented a BX24 with a BH. and thought I could pull the posts with the BH. Nooooooowayyyyyyy!. I tried to simply xhain the posts to the BH bucket and lift.... Nooooway! I ended up using the back hoe to dig around the posts down abot 16 inches below the surface and tried to lift them with a chain..... Nooooooway!. I ended up just snapping them off with the BH bucket below grade and back fiiled the holes to surface grade. AS i was working on the last post, my neighbor was walking his dog and said get a "wheel", put the chain around the post at groung level, lay the chain across the wheel, and pull the chain with the tractor. The posts will come right up. It worked so well I wished he had given the advice before all that digging. This is the reason why I have been lurking and finally joined this forum. Old farmers advice is hard to come by nowadays!.
Noob.