I don't know what the deductible on your homeowner's insurance is, or even if you are a home owner, but if the deductible is low enough, it might be worth filing a claim. Betsy At 11:11 PM 6/23/2009, you wrote:
>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: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com >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: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > > 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] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
