How do I get this out…….?
- Thread starter Ceri
- Start date
- Location
- East Sussex
Very complicated answers on here. Bash a new one through the old. If you start digging it up (which is the only other answer) you’ll be loosening up all the ground and the new post will never be any good.
Ceri
Member
exactly kiss
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I got one of them I’ll point a post up & try it….
Any chance you could have a go a bit sooner? I’ve a few to do and I’d like to know how well it works before I bugger up my rock spike.
I suppose if the spike gets stuck in the post, you’ve then got the hydraulics on the post knocker to pull the stump out.
Ceri
Member
Few yrs back the one & only time I’ve got the rock spike stuck - under an oak tree, must av jammed between roots….. absolutely fast as f**k had to take it all apart & got the digger to lift it out - and that struggled to….. hell of a job. Mind u @TelesnaAg probably thinks I being tight again & should av jus left it & bought a new post driver………..!Any chance you could have a go a bit sooner? I’ve a few to do and I’d like to know how well it works before I bugger up my rock spike.
I suppose if the spike gets stuck in the post, you’ve then got the hydraulics on the post knocker to pull the stump out.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I had the exact same thing happened here, even down to the species of tree. Merlo struggled to get that out too.
That’s why I’d like you to try it first…
its a softwood post that rotted off isn't it ?
Ceri
Member
Ceri
Member
I wouldn’t worry about getting the spike stuck in a rotted off post be fineI had the exact same thing happened here, even down to the species of tree. Merlo struggled to get that out too.
That’s why I’d like you to try it first…
This is exactly what I would doGot some fertilizer? Got any diesel? Mix to get ANFO. Put in hole. Light and run away fast.
This has the advantage of digging the new hole for you.
- Location
- East Sussex
Boil some 34.5% in water 'til it's dry to remove the wax.
Mix with the correct amount of diesel.
brew up some mother of satan to get it all started.
boom.
Hello GCHQ!
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Location
- somerset
used to have a black powder muzzle loading gun.
had some powder that wasn't doing as expected. Mrs found a wasp nest in the lawn, and some idiot decided one night, after skittles, might be a good way to get rid of powder and wasps. Poured a decent amount of powder down the hole, stuck some newspaper in, as a fuse, lit and stood well back.
Only 2 mistakes, 1st actually doing it, 2nd, not realising the hole wasn't straight down, but sloping.
To be fair, wasp nest destroyed, powder used, and idiot covered head to toe, in dirt and remains of nest. The slope on the hole, blew it exactly where stood, few feet either side, would have been fine.
One learns by ones mistakes, so they say.
had some powder that wasn't doing as expected. Mrs found a wasp nest in the lawn, and some idiot decided one night, after skittles, might be a good way to get rid of powder and wasps. Poured a decent amount of powder down the hole, stuck some newspaper in, as a fuse, lit and stood well back.
Only 2 mistakes, 1st actually doing it, 2nd, not realising the hole wasn't straight down, but sloping.
To be fair, wasp nest destroyed, powder used, and idiot covered head to toe, in dirt and remains of nest. The slope on the hole, blew it exactly where stood, few feet either side, would have been fine.
One learns by ones mistakes, so they say.
- Location
- Devon
It's the installation that's getting dear.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Is there a reason it has to go in the same spot?I give up….
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
A gatepost can often be repositioned without have any affect on the gate/fence.
What is being asked/siggested is can the post not be put in, a foot or 2 either side of the original meaning the gate still opens and shuts as intended but when closed isn't in exactly the position of before