Hey guys I'm James and in this video i'm going to show you how to remove a rotten, broken off
fence post that's in the ground. I'm going to be using a tool that i use all the time in my line of
work and it's literally going to save you hours of manual labor. Let's go ahead and get started.
Okay so essentilally what i'm going to be using is an eye plate. I spent a lot of time searching
online for these and this one is rated to carry 500 kilograms. You can get others online that
aren't quite as strong as this because i'm using it all the time i wanted to get something that
isn't going to break after a couple of uses. It's also got larger holes in the plate, so you can use
bigger screws to screw down into the rotten fence post. I'll link to this one down in the description
box below and i'll also list to a cheaper one that you can use, that isn't can't take quite as much
weight but will still work in the same way. Okay so essentially what we're going to be doing is we're
going to be fitting the eye plate over the top of the rotten fence post in the ground and then we're
going to be screwing these screws down, through the holes of the eye plate and then into the rotten
fence post. Now this can hold up to M12 screws but what i'm going to be using is an M10
200 millimeter screw. You want the longest screw that you can get because you want to screw down
through the rotten fence post into post that isn't rotten at the bottom. 99 times out of 100
the post is literally going to be rotten within the top two inches of the fence post in the
ground. So above ground two inches, below ground two inches, that part of the post generally is going to
be the part that's rotten and then it will snap off and then in that case you're going to have
good decent fence post in the ground that you can get some good purchase on.
So ideally when you come to do this, instead of doing what i did and bulldoze in, pulling the post
down and snapping it off below ground level. You'll want to check the post for rot first, then cut the
post flat above ground level, so it's easy to work on and you have a level surface to screw down into.
Once you've got your fence post flat you're ready to fit the eye plate. You'll have varying degrees
of rot throughout the post so you'll need to pick the best place to start screwing in the screws.
The plate fits perfectly over a four by four post, so you can fill up all the holes with screws.
If it's a three by three post you may only get three of the screws in.
You'll need a 17mm socket and an impact driver to screw in the screws.
Screw down all of the screws until the plate sits down tight on the post.
I've gone in at slight angles too to get a better purchase on the post.
Okay once you've got the eye plate screwed down into your post, you're ready to try and
pull this out now and what we're going to be doing is using a bar
and something to pivot off and then we're going to just slide the bar into the the eye there.
This has got a swiveling eye on it so it's handy that you can just adjust it to whatever position
you want. We'll lay down an old piece of post or some blocks, lay the bar on top and then um just
use the pivot force, to then pull the post out of the ground. Okay so you lay down your bit of post
and you you'll need to adjust this accordingly closer or further away, depending on how what the
angle is and whether or not you can get the bar in. We're just going to slide the bar into the eyelet
and then just ready to pivot off that post.
Then pull the old post out. Okay now you can of course if you can't pull it out
you just double up your posts to give you a bit more of an angle to pull more post out
and then that should be ready to just pull out by hand and there you go.
Okay you can see that's absolutely worked a dream. Literally took me a couple of minutes
to screw the screws into the post and pull it out. Now if you've had to ever dig out a
fence post in the ground, snapped off in the ground before. You know it can take
a long time because that fence post is in the way of you clearing the concrete out, It just
makes things take a lot longer but now that that post is pulled out the ground, you can break the
concrete off and you've also got an area where you can you can put a bar in and pivot off and
pull the big chunks of concrete out. Now you could if the concrete in the ground is sound
and it hasn't cracked at all, you could potentially just then literally slide your new post in. If the
post is going exactly where the previous post came out, slide a new timber fence post in there,
hammer it in with a mallet and bob's your uncle you've got a brand new post in the ground.
It's taking you minutes literally and you don't have to concrete it in or anything like that.
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