fillit with cement and bang it down with a sledge?
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Lee A. Stone wrote: > > this time of year Bob with wet clay it will be hard for him, Spiro to > break the suction in the clay of what is already buried. . maybe start a > fresh hole and where the old pipe is cover with dirt and some flowers? > just a thought. Lee > > On Wed, Jun 24, > 2009 at 05:11:16AM -0400, Bob Kennedy 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: [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] >> > > -- > malpractice, n.: > The reason surgeons wear masks. > . >
