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Re: Posts-Like big sticks in the yard

To: John Viviani <geeno@adelphia.net>
Subject: Re: Posts-Like big sticks in the yard
From: dms@scheidt.chem.nd.edu
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:00:24 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, John Viviani wrote:

> problem is the stairs/deck that they had for this thing had 4x4 posts to
> support it. Placed in the ground with cement. I guessing no more than 18
> inches, that is where the mountain begins and the dirt ends (who the hell
> put western VA on a mountain). Anyone have any easy ways to get these things
> out. I only have a 1/2 acre so no tractors etc, the wife mows (I have

You could use an oxy-acetelene torch bomb, and blow them out!  

I'd be tempted to just dig them out iwth a shovel.  If you don't really need
to get the concrete out  (and if you're just puttting grass there, you don't)
you can dig down a foot or so, cut the post off, and fill the hole in.

David

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