How to install, repair, remove, replace a fence post the easy way

Here's how to fix , repair and replace broken fence posts and poles easily as long as things are thought ahead and you used the fence post socket system before using concrete and cement

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more info about the method with FAQ on http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-fix-and-then-extract-a-fence-post-with...

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[BidwellRunner]

Lol, we have been breaking the concrete with a sledge hammer. yeah it is taking a lot of work...

[easyfencing]

@BidwellRunner If you can use a breaker, it takes 1/4 of the time and it is the only way to keep the hole more or less the same size.Tthat's what I normally do, I'll have to put a video on that as there are few tricks of the trade dyers should come to know.

[easyfencing]

@specialks1953 if you google boron salt there's a good pdf document on the website constructionresources. As for the water seeping through, there is a simple experiment you can try. At minute 3:00 there's a scaled down post (stick) and socket (water bottle) filled with dry (has to be dry!) sand. Seal it with ordinary silicon, let it dry and immerse it in water for a few weeks or months. When I cut the seal the sand was still completely dry, that's why I went ahead introducing the new method.

[801bountyhunter]

clever and simple

[PyR0Star]

or dynamite

[MrDavidthepainter]

Great video! You should add to contractortube. com



[robz40]

@ElCid48 true, in fact the majority of people don't need it.... right now ;-)

[ElCid48]

@robz40

That system of pulling out posts is very ingenious but in my case I don't really need it.

[robz40]

@ElCid48 . "never had anyone complaining about them and their "aesthetics" looks. " like I said it depends on the custom of the country and what people are used to. It is not good nor bad, just the way it is and improvements are there to be considered. Another advantage of the post socket system is that it can also work for metal posts as you can temporarily remove the post should you need to do so e.g. make room for large machinery (it can happen) . In that case any post would be in the way.

[ElCid48]

@robz40

I understand your point of view but I'm not living in a high-class plush neighborhood where people have the money to have others do things for them. I'm talking about a middle-class, mostly blue-collar workers who do things for themselves and are self-reliant. And it's also mostly practicality. The metal posts could be easily be partially hidden by some sort of vegetation. I never had anyone complaining about them and their "aesthetics" looks.

[robz40]

@ElCid48 different countries have different customs and building methods, in Britain we generally use wooden posts and wooden fence as a default method for costs, aestethic reasons and because the back garden tends to be closed on all sides by a 5-6ft fence for privacy. In many other countries in continental Europe they wouldn't even think of that.

[ElCid48]

I'd rather replace the wooden posts with metal ones used for chain and link fences. In New England the wood will rot faster because of the weather. My privacy stockade fence is 17 years-old and the metal posts imbedded in concrete are like new. Next year I'm planning to replace the fence sections but not the posts.