Anyone buildy-minded around? I've got three 8 foot concrete posts in my garden and I want to dig them out - anyone got any idea how deep underground they'll go?  Don't want to start if it's gonna be a back-breaker :D I've already got two other landscaping projects on the go!

I just keep thinking how nice it would be if I could remove these 3 smelly pee-posts of Remy's... :rolleyes:

We have just had 5 posts ripped out and apparently they came out relatively easily so our landscape gardener said :)

He is quite a strong bloke so assume for a normal person a bit of a struggle but nothing too hard :)

Just depends who put them in :D If it was my husband you'd have a job to get them out as he would have sunk them deeply into concrete :D Then you have to remove the concrete :D :D Some people just push them into the ground tho' :D :D

Daisy

AAAAHHHH!

But before you remove Remy's pee posts, do you know where he'll water next???  You might be sorry they're gone ;) ;)  at least you can disinfect them and use odour stuff on them ;) ;)

Just playing devil's advocate ;) ;)  cos a boy-dog's gotta pee :D :D

lol!  the thought has crossed my mind, but luckily his other favoured spots are onto non-lawn - these posts are in a line down the middle of my garden and there's a smelly foot-wide circle round each!

Down the middle of the garden?????    That's terrible!     Maybe you could save one and resite it for him in a less prominent spot??   As you love him soo much :D :D :D

lol!  maybe I could... even better, I found a smaller post in amongt my hedge today, I could dig that out and put it somewhere better :D

Having looked after our import boy and now one of my adolescent male boys I thank god I inly own bitches. I just could not put up with their disgusting toilet habits full time :(

Do they look straight????
If they do then it will most likely be difficult!!!!
If they are all over the place then it will probably be easier LOL
We put a fence up in my uncles garden with conrete posts, and we put them in 1 1/2' deep minimum.
When we cam to do the side fence a year later we had to knock the concrete of the last post to butt the side one up to it.
Half an hour later using chisel and hammer, I trundled off to get a breaker to knock it off!!!!! There was no way we would have done it with the chisel!!!! LOL
If you need a breaker, and have a mate whos a builder and hires things, ask if you can hire it in their name. As it will be ALOT cheaper!!!!!!
Most of all GOOD LUCK :D :D :D
And book the chiropractor for the day after your doing it LOL
Mesh and Clematis and a small fence round them might be the better option ;)
Lea :)

No, they have to come out - thanks for the tips by the way! - they run down the side of the path that runs down my garden, if I put a fence round them it'll block the path and in any case, I want that gone eventually!

I'm just too picky I think! :p

You could cut them down (Angle grinder?) to ground or just below groudn level for now and then use digger to get the concrete out of the ground once you dig the path up.

But only chop them off if you are going to use a digger top get the path up, which most of the time you just need a pixck and sledge hammer and a few muscles to weild the sledge hammer!!!!
If you cut it off at the bottom, remembering there are steel pins that run through them, then you will have no leverage.
It is the same with posts and trees, you leave them at least 5' out of the ground so when you are digging round them you are able to pull them over to dislodge/move the roots/concrete, Believe me it is ALOT easier LOL
One digs and chops, the other pulls the top :) :)
HTH
Lea :)