The EASIEST Way to Remove a Fence Post (IN UNDER 5 MINUTES !)
In this video I show you how to remove a fence post in concrete, in under 5 minutes !
I have removed alot of fence posts being a fencing contractor and If you absolutely need to, this is the easiest way to remove a fence post, in concrete.
With a few simple tools you can pull fence posts out of the ground in minutes, instead of hours of back breaking digging.
You just need a jack and even a car jack will do.
I hope that this video helped you in some way, and if it did, please leave a comment for me in the comments section. I love to hear from people who gained value from any of my videos. I always respond to comments, so would be great to hear from you guys !
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Time stamps
0:00 Intro
1:27 Equipment needed
2:10 What to use as a platform
3:30 Building the jack stand
4:35 Setting up your base
5:08 Bolting your anchor poit the the post
6:00 The complete setup
6:33 How to operate the jack
6:53 Pulling the post
8:58 Testing the car jack
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Genius idea. I'll definately be trying this out. Thanks 🙂
Youre welcome man 👍
Cool method and thanks for sharing it. Definetely not a 5 minute job though.
Prep time not included I guess, it presumed the time starts from the time you start jacking- I used an air jack to remove a tree root, it really became effortless, just needed to reposition it in stages because the travel isn't anything like a farm jack.
Great vid, need to remove x3 of today, will get jack and support set up👍
Great job. Thanks for sharing your idea
Nice job. I have to pull up some fence posts and will try this method
Brilliant... !! It’s a mission digging out but this is a great idea 💡
Thankyou ! If you absolutely need to remove the concrete and all, then this is a great idea. If the post is rotten however, then youd need to take a different approach.
Nice vid, I'm no fencer but I had these 2 rusted metal posts sticking out the ground and I avoided pulling them out for years, until I had a child and realised the posts would be hazardous. So long story short on a realy dry day I used a club hammer around the base of the post striking the post really hard around the base essentially using vibration to loosen the soil around the post anyways got it out in 2-3 minutes,it was spiked 2ft into the ground.
Great video. You made it look easy.
Thanks 👍 It wasnt 😅
I could have dug it out quicker than messing about , plus how many posts have pre drilled holes on domestic jobs?
If you've got a lot to pull out, this is faster than digging them all by hand. Plus you leave a smaller hole behind with this method.
@@KMx108could use a chain wrapped around the post with lag screws to help keep it attached when pulling up, if you don't have the convenience of holes throughout the post being removed.
Very helpful, thanks.
Bravo! Thanks for the Tip!
Glad it was helpful!
Commenting to help with the algorithm. Love the channel mate has helped me a lot.
I appreciate that massively !! Thankyou 🙏 Im glad it has helped. If you need help with anything specific dont hesitate to ask 👍
@@JamesMontana now you mention it, you’ve showed a few tools here and there in various videos but a full “fencers tools” rundown would be great! Would be good to hear what each tool is used for etc as well as your personal recommendations. Keep up the good work! Channel is growing nicely.
@@Samuellh Thankyou mate. Yes that is on my list of videos to do. Top 5 tools a fencer cant do without. I have a few more garden and landcaping projects coming up soon though that are going to keep me busy. How to lay the perfect lawn and how to build an oak sleeper raised bed. Oh and a fence post foam vs concrete strength test. Should be interesting, but as soon as thats done ill do the tools review video. Thanks for subbing and watching 👀🙏❤
Where do I get the Eye Plate? I dont see the link you talk about. I need one for a 6x6 and 4x4. You are correct in saying finding these on the internet is almost impossible!
I have 5 of these but they are short just above ground 4x4s in concrete that someone used to do a small landscape wall. I’ve been digging and today I added water. I don’t have the 90$ Jack so hoping I can get them out with the water method.
Last time I had to take concrete posts out, I used the water method.... Dig a small ditch around the top of the concrete ball, fill with water and let it soak down. Water in a few times, then I was able to rock the post slightly, the wet mud is pushed up from the rocking movement. After a few minutes of rocking the post and concrete ball will be free. You've just to then lift it out 💪
How "small" is the ditch (i.e., how deep and wide)....4 inches deep? a foot deep? 3 inches wide? or more?
@@suemorris3931 about 2" wide x 2" deep, its just to stop the initial water from running away. Once the water has started to soak down, the bigger the ditch you dig the quicker it is for the water to soak in.
@@e30mark Thanks!
Hey man, good call! I didn't think about "flooding" it out. That's brilliant. Thank you!
Had a hard time since who ever did my fence pour concrete 2 feet down . And I’m not sure what kind it was it was way harder then regular concert it turned to a much harder solid blue rock
Brilliant video!
Thanks mate. Glad you liked it 👍
Good man! I've watched a few of your vids now. You're a natural in front of the camera. No BS, just get on with it. 👍
Much appreciated mate👍You probably wouldn't say that if you saw it before all the editing 🤫🤣
Good video James, will be at 1k subs in no time buddy ! I am actually working on a custom made adjustable frame fabricated from 50mm box section to do this job...........bit of trial and error, "patent pending" 😂 👍 probably revert to farm jack method as you have expertly shown here !
Thanks mate. As much as I have been trying to get there, never actually thought i would. Yeah i have seen something similar and works pretty well. Cant go wrong with the jack though. That was a heavy post with lots of concrete so itll pull any post.
Amazing I am going to try this with a two ton trolly jack
Works a treat mate . Hope the trolly jack lifts high enough for.you.
@@JamesMontana cheers mate
Great vidio 😊 what kind of chain saw are you using?
Thankyou. Im using a stihl ms 170. Small saw but its excellent and never has any problems.
@@JamesMontana Thank you for your answer 😊 yeah I saw that it was cutting through thick wood like butter 😊😊
@@DidiLassen a good sharp chain will cut through any wood.
Good information
Thanks. Hope ot was helpful 🙏
Very cool!
I,ve used a 1 ton bottle jack, also a trolley jack to do the same job
Does this work if the post has been cemented into a concrete slab ?
Yes and its more likely to perform well in this situation
Could of done with one with a jack when I was digging out a garden post a few weeks ago! The concrete around the post was like a giant meteorite from space I had to dig out 😂
Jesus ! I hate it when people do that. Not necessary to put in that much concrete. Bloody nightmare to dig out i bet.
I just use a good quality engine hoist wrap the chain around the post and winch it out no set up required
Many post don't have such regular small holes. The last 7" x 7" that I took out went down 24" and there was no option but to use a breaker on it. You need a breaker to chip the plug off to reuse the concrete post. A two side hole works - you can auger it out unless you have to go through tree roots when you have to resort to an axe and 3" x 6' steel chisel bar.
No but its also a good method to remove wooden posts
Great video but I’m unsure what benefit the tripod wood posts achieve
How would it work if the post has a 8 inch x 4 feet deep concrete in colder climates?
Wouldnt work lol
damn......spent 3 hours digging my concrete post out and got another 4 to do lol. Think I'll try your idea, but with my car's hydraulic jack. Gotta lifting weight of 4 ton! :-D
Nice if you have a full length post to remove. Usually the reason for removing a post is because its damaged or broken and there's nothing to fix to. I have screwed an old strap into what's left of an old wooden post at ground level and used a piece of 4x2 and a brick or block as a pivot and then slowly stand on the 4x2 to lift the old post.
Yes that works but %80 of posts i remove are still intact and this works well.
In Canada this won’t work all posts when their ready to be replaced are rotten at the ground
Question: I have a post that snapped in the ground, about 2 and a half feet are still in the ground. Any trick to get it out?
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Brilliant
Good looking English Rottweiler👍bit over weight😁 I'll try the floor jack instead.
Sound like Austin powers baby YEAH!
what if the wooden fence post is broken of at ground level
I prefer the chain, pick up truck and spare tire method after soaking the ground around the post and concrete with water. Much more easy!
You know I love how these guys pull these things out of dirt. I got one completely surrounded by concrete and it’s just come on show us the difficult way this thing is so difficult to get out. The wood is gone it’s like a sponge dirt underneath is mud. I guess I need to make a video
Did you get it?
Also handy for pulling conifers out
Saved my back so many times pulling stumps out with this !
@@JamesMontana I'm 12 stumps into 90 odd
Thankyou for clicking on this video and taking the time to watch it. Id love to hear what you think. Let me know in this comment section 👍
I just use a recovery strap wrapped around the base of the post and a shackle onto the high-lift. If it won’t bite i whack a piece of theaded bar through the post above the strap.
What a big load work ,all you need to do is sledge hammer bottom of post ,expose reinforceing cut off with bulk croppers takes no more than 2 mins dead easy .
Yeah but if you want the concrete out too. But yeah you could just cut it with a disk cutter.
I have used my trolley jack a number of times to get a post out and even made a loop if the post has broke at ground level were most seem to fail :(
Yeah if a post has broken off at the base then this wouldnt work, but i have another idea for when that happens. Trolly jack is a good idea though :)
@@JamesMontana I have drilled though to the bottom knocked in a metal bar with a bend at the end and then smack some wood in so the bend is hooked on the concrete and lift. Sometimes it cracks but that can then give room to left it out.
Great, so to remove a gate/fence post, I just need to source specialist gate/fence post lifting equipment. Wow, what a super hot tip bro.
What did you expect. I'd say just use your bare hands ?
You needed to saturate the ground around the post with water. It would've come out with even less effort. Well done.
Thats a good tip 👌 ill try that next time.
I need to buy a jack a saw massive bolts drill and a whole bunch of lumber fabricate equipment for to get a post out. 👌 nice
No you dont have to. You can use your bare hands 💪😉
After doing one by hand, you're going to want an easier way. Especially if your post is a 6x6 like mine!
great idea but not much use if the fence is rotten at the base.....
No, If that is the case you need to use a different method.
Just get a spade and a jet wash blast around the concrete and rock it until free ! Try that ….?
Ever thought of using an engine removal hoist. Feet would be already either side of the post, hydraulic cylinder, so better control on lift, and would tend to pull post toward you, rather than push it away. Cheap to hire, and comes in parts so easy to transport.
You know i never thought of that. But they do make a specific post puller now in a similar style. But yeah it costs alot. This jack is just £35 so pretty cheap.
A garden anywhere except the U.S.=backyard. You’re welcome.
I thought only the US called it a backyard
Being a crotchety old fartwith a terrible back, I would recommend using a fulcrum and lever instead of muscle and back strength to remove the post and anchor.
Funny you should say that because im just about to post a video using that exact method 👍
Use a chain but it has to go round concrete, the post always pulls out
Or a trolley jack.
Mini excavator, wrap a chain around the bucket then around the base of the lumber and pull up with the bucket. Pulls the whole concrete out of the ground 95% of thr time if done right
Great idea ! Probably a bit more expensive than a jack though 😆
@@JamesMontana well most ppl removing concrete posts are demo guys, deck and fence guys and usually have excavators
@@tinospaper2822 this is a tip for the average diy'er really and they dont usually have diggers laying around 🤷♂️
Don't nobody got all these supplies. All I got is a shovel
For the love of god .... after a day shagging concrete with a breaker, if only I'd known this before
Comment for the algorithm
Thankyou again !
Nice work but I think it took you about 3 hours from start to finish (including prep work) :)
What the fuck I don't have a farming jack lying around
Try Dynamite
Clear it with the neighbours first😂
That look like a lot more than 30 minutes of work
Mate how many critics pipe up when someone else makes a video for everyone else lol Okay, so you got old boy John gonna do it himself and your right he’ll need your advice and help cause how else can he get it out with his fragile bones… some people dig a hole next to the concreted in post and then pull it over and then out, other people drag out a big breaker make a big mess in the garden and then think you’ll appreciate their effort to get one post out, then you have a relatively calm bloke who can come in with his bar, he’ll prod around the edge of the concrete and then in a few blows he’ll split it and pull out the post, that’s unless some knob thought more cement will keep it upright when making the concrete but hey you gotta keep an open mind when you can’t see underground cause there’s more idiots out there than there are people who want to help others
💥In less time than all of this you could have easily dug on only one side of the post then pushed it over into the hole that you dug.
Honestly, timber pad under jack, big chain and 2 couplers and your away
You over complocated it, just dig a hole next to it and push it over ! DOH!
This isn't new they used to do this in the 1950 butt with a car jack with shoe on the bottom this is just the old way off doing this
Marley looks like he could pull that post out with his teeth!
Haha. I will be testing her pulling power on the next video. So stay tuned to check it out 👍
There’s a far easier way to solve this problem but Im not telling you ….Ok I will …Keep the wood store 😛
Haha tooo late 🙈
For the algorithm
This is clearly a great way to do it, but come on - 'in under fie minutes'? It'll take a week just to gather and construct all those additional pieces. Fair play, though. This is a cool pro method.
Honestly, most of the time it's a rotten post broke off at ground level .
Under 5 minutes, seriously the video is more than 5 minutes and I have to go and buy a huge jack.. I don't think so.
With all that setup, definitely wasn't under 5 minutes
Once you have the rig built it literally takes 5 minutes
So we need a mega jack that can only be bought online.. we basically have to be an established mechanic with their machinery to be able to take out a fence post with this guy. Genius
Good job, but it took a more than 5 minutes .
This does not work. Tried it with 2 different posts without success.
Argghhh. Can’t watch him butchering a perfectly nice big chunk of wood. Could’ve just use a couple of cinder blocks for legs and saved the wood for furniture projects.
If only i was a furniture maker lol
5 minutes?
What happened to five minutes. Ha ha ha
I thought u said five minutes???
All that would have taken you at least an hour. I would have dug it out in 20 minutes. No jack no drill no cutting. Nice music though.
Well youre a better man than me then
To much faffing , just pull it over and wiggle it out, or dig round it then pull it over and wiggle it out .
You make it sound so easy 😮💨
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30,000 commercials for 9mins 🥴
Not 5 minutes. You need that massive jack and other things there that arnt common everyone will have. Il be honest I can remove it in half hour with other techniques
In America we would have had that out in 26 minutes.......................................................
Thats slow man 🐌 haha
"In under 5 minutes"...but it takes 3 hours to set it up and buy all this shit, LOL
Yeah i didn't really factor in the delivery time 🤣🤣
@@JamesMontana Ya I get that but 5 minutes is not happening. It took you an hour to just set up this rig :). Good video though…same result with less effort compared to digging out by hand or hooking a chain up to a Ram!
@@ryanjoseph5009 yeah but next time the rig will be setup. Then you just have to bolt on some wood and pull it out. That part literally took 5 minutes. Ill definitely check out this other method though.
PLEASE get your timer. No way you did all this in less than 5 min
No i didnt but once you have your rig built you leave it that way. Then its a case of taking it out. Bolting a piece of wood to a post and then pull it out. Takes 5 minutes
Looks like a major project definitely not worth the time you took getting ready just push post back and forth it will pull out
I bet I could dig that out quicker….
I very much doubt that.
This wasn’t even remotely close to 5 mins, the video alone is 9:33 and that’s with all the edits.
Get a post out in minutes 😅
Yeah i know. Its great isnt it lol
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But not 5 minutes for sure
Once you have the jack setup its a simple case of bolting a piece of timber to the post and jacking it out. Which literally took 5 minutes.
My wife always said: " it will take you 5 minutes ". Then " why it take so long?" 🤣🤣
@@DP-zs3hg if she thinks 5 minutes is long then you are a lucky man 🤣🤣
what a load of unesesary work, grab you car jack, wood as a base. pump you jack and out it goes
5 min, eh?
5 minutes my arse..!! It probably took you a few hours just to get organised
Yes, but then 5 minutes lol
What a load of rubbish. Every post I have had to remove has rotted at the base so this would not work.. he's pulling out a newish concrete post. Try a wood post which most people have
I did remove a wood post in the video 🤦♂️
@@JamesMontana yes you removed a new wooden post. But that's not real world.. the post would be rotted away and this would be a useless tool... Now if you wanted to move the fence this would be great. But a repair it would not work
@@ianwright8988 to be fair i didnt say it was for removing rotten posts. I thought it would be obvious this wouldn't work for that. Ive removed thousands of fence post though and 50 to 75% of thoes this would work. But anyone who does this for a living knows not to bother at all and just off set from previous posts 👍
This is not the easiest lol. All you need is a $20 come along and a chainlink post. Wrap the come along around the base of the post and attach to top of post. Wiggle and crank
Please explain what a come along is ? Lol
@@JamesMontana Traditional come-along winches are also known as hand cable pullers or power pullers. They are hand-operated and use a ratchet to pull an object.
@@Fence-Dogs-More yeah i know what you mean now. Yeah that probably woukd be easier and im thinking of a rig to build for one.
@@JamesMontana you just need a plated chainlink post attach the come along to the top, wrap the hook a couple times around the stump. the top of the chainlink post will move forward as you tighten, just pull back towards you, then crank and repeat. (I have a fencing company)
@@Fence-Dogs-More sounds like a good idea Think ill have to try it and make a video 📹🤔👍
Takes over 9 mins to explain how to remove a post in 5???????? Hmmmmmm
Well i had to fill it with some crap didnt i ;)