Once it's broke down that far it's hard to find anything easy to do. I'd start by digging next to the cement and see if you can get something under the cement so it can be rocked around a little. Once it come loose from the dirt it can come out in a chunk instead of breaking it all up. ----- Original Message ----- From: Spiro To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:33 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] clothes line pole
the pipe is broken off flush to the ground. This 4 inch pipe idea is what city people use to keep Friends Under Consideration for aweful torture parking on their sidewalks. In tighter parts of a city, trucks can crush the cement around a storm inlet and send the metal work into the drainage. Not safe for kids. So people put pipe like that on either side of an inlet if they must influence trucks to turn properly. Is their an easy way to get the pipe out of the ground if it's flush? On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Bob Kennedy wrote: > Well, years ago when I lived near Buffalo, we had problems with snow plow > drivers hitting mail boxes all winter. So one summer I decided to fight back. > I had an gas powered auger in the shop for repairs and I drilled a 12 inch > hole, 4 feet deep. I put a piece of 4 inch sewer pipe in the hole and filled > both the pipe and the rest of the hole with concrete. I cut off the pipe > about 4 feet above the ground and filled that part with concrete as well. > Then I clamped the mail box to the pipe. > > Next winter when the plow took a shot at my mail box it sounded like a bomb > went off. My mail box was crushed like usual but the pipe stood up to the > plow and busted the support arm letting the plow slam back along side of the > truck. The town tried taking me to court and the judge laughed at them. He > asked me how much I'd charge to fix his mail box the same way... > > Just an idea but it will definitely fix your neighbors car if he hits it. > > If you have access to an automotive floor jack you can wrap a length of chain > around the pipe and the saddle of the jack. Pumping up the jack might bring > the pipe out of the ground leaving the cement in place. Pipe and cement won't > bond together so it won't take much to get it out. You may have to put a wide > board under the jack to keep it from digging into the ground. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Spiro > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:35 PM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] clothes line pole > > > > > > Hi, > I have a ?heavy? metal pipe with a 4 spike cap that is used for a clothes > line. > My neighbor across the drive likes his alcohol consumtion; and he has quie > dented another neighbor's fence. He got a big SUV and ran down the pole. > It is bigger and heavier than the 2.5 inch in our chain link fence in > front. > But I've not measured it yet. > Here's what I want to do; check it out and let me know if I'm on the right > track. > There's a pipe in the ground, cemented and flush with the driveway. The > pipe with the 4 spike cap, fits down into that. Part of this is broken off > into the bigger pipe. > Somehow I have to get that out. > I then want to get a piece of the same size, 2ft down and 2ft above ground > and cement it. I'd like to then get the same size as the pipe that is in > the ground, and cement that. I could then drop the final clothes pole into > that and have cement and double piping up to about 4ft and make it more > durable and memorable than the one he destroyed by driving 5 feet onto my > driveway and breaking it for me. > Wife says that hang dry is faster, and is obviously cheaper; so I need a > very durable solution. > Wife wants to wimp and drag a solitary standing unit in and out every day. > Not good enough for me. > Thoughts, advice, help? > Thanks > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
