Fence Post

[jellytot01]

Hi, Does anyone have any ingenous ideas on how to get fence posts out of the ground. We have got the actual wooden post out but the big metal spikes are still there as the wood snapped.

Any ideas?

[curiosity]

We had the same problem, we burnt the wood out by making a small fire in the met post, problem is as soon as the lads get involved with making a fire, the whole point of the task in hand goes out of the window. However, it was easier to dig out the metal afterwards, so job done I suppose.

[gazzawazza]

I've done this by using rope, an old fence post (as a lever) and a small stack of bricks as a fulcrum, but that was after I got the wood out of the socket.  You could drive a metal bar through the gaps in the socket and use this to tie the rope onto but there is an easier way round this. 

I'm presuming you want to replace the fence, then all you need to do is hammer the metpost below ground and then stagger your new posts so it isn't in the way of your new metpost.  In other words, instead of starting from, say, the house end with a full panel and finishing at the other end with a smaller, made-up panel, start at the other end with a full size panel and put the made-up panel next to the house.

Hope you understand this.  

[mfewell]

gazzawazza's suggestion of staggering the new posts in between the old is a good and minimal effort one, and I have used it - but what do you do when you need to replace the fence for the second time...?!  My garden boundary is now virtually solid concrete underground. They'll need digging out at some point.

[RAYMAN]

mfewell grow a hedge   mfewell as the fewell name is quite rare are you descended from the essex line?