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Shouldn't be too hard with a good heavy sledgehammer. That concrete should crack and fall off with a few wacks.


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We just did this with some fence poles. By the time I found and readied my chipping hammer, Jr DF #3 had all of the concrete off of all five poles with my sledge. Wear eye protection and swing away. Comes off easier than it looks.



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We just did this with some fence poles. By the time I found and readied my chipping hammer, Jr DF #3 had all of the concrete off of all five poles with my sledge. Wear eye protection and swing away. Comes off easier than it looks.


Great! Send him on over! Big Grin



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OK Sigforum, I need your help. We're giving our swingset to our neighbors. I spent the day tearing it down, now I need to get the concrete off the posts. Is there an easy way to do this, or am I stuck with a sledge and concrete chisel?

I think the answer to your question is yes. There is an easy way, but involves an excavator with a hydraulic thumb. Your best bet is probably either let the recipient deal with it or find an 18 year old to come do it for you. Failing that, as stated it comes off reasonable well with a sledge. It will likely be much easier than it was to get them out of the ground...
 
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Aloha,

I vote for letting the new owner deal with it as he wants.
 
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We just did this with some fence poles. By the time I found and readied my chipping hammer, Jr DF #3 had all of the concrete off of all five poles with my sledge. Wear eye protection and swing away. Comes off easier than it looks.


Great! Send him on over! Big Grin


You'll have to feed him though......might not be worth it. Big Grin



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You guys are cracking me up. I beat on the concrete below with a sledge hammer for 15 minutes and all I got were bloody shins from the the few chips I managed to make. I like the hammer drill idea to make a row of holes to get the crack started, but I don't have one up here. I'm just going to rebury it in it's new location.




 
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If the metal is stout enough you can try hitting that with the sledge. That's a huge wad of overkill concrete though.



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If you think that's overkill, you should see what I did for the basketball hoop. Smile

It is a chunk of concrete though and that's a telescoping aluminum flag pole in it. The pvc sleeve the pole is in got sand in it and the pole no longer slides out. In defense of the concrete, it was in sand and never moved until this year. The river claimed a 4 foot high, 6 foot wide, and 50 foot long section of sand dune in front of my parent's house. The flagpole was originally set 10 feet from the edge and it was 5 feet from the edge last year. This year, it was at the bottom of the river.

I just finished putting in it's new location in front of our house.

 
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If the recipient is going to use the stuff, just leave the concrete on it. He can dig bigger holes, which he would have to do to pour his own concrete, anyway.


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I suggest dynamite.



Explosives are generally my go-to solution for everything. Thankfully it's hard to buy.





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I suggest dynamite.



Explosives are generally my go-to solution for everything. Thankfully it's hard to buy.


I think you are onto something here. I've got everything I need in my reloading cave...Big Grin



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