redoing fence

[slow84lx]

Go metal, iv replaced all mine with metal.

This. Wood posts shouldn't be an option even if you are only planning to be there for less than a year.

[kingjason]

I came home from vacation to 2 different parts of the fence laying on the ground from the cheap ass 4x4 posts that were used. They snapped from the bottom and both are on one my neighbors side. I am wanting to pull the remaining 6 posts that are still there and replace the entire side with pressure treated 4x4s and 2x4s and new pickets.

Looking on youtube, going to HF and buying a off-road jack using a couple of 2x4s with some lag bolts drilled into the 4x4 posts and doing that method to pull the posts out with the concrete seems to look like the best way, but I was wanting to check here if there were any other methods without having to go spend the 55$ for that jack to do this.

I have a regular car 2 ton jack that I could possible use?

If you live anywhere near Read Oak you can borrow mine for free. I have chain also.

[Goku025]

If you live anywhere near Read Oak you can borrow mine for free. I have chain also.

Well thanks for that offerman, but I live in Austin and I did go to HF to get that jack and came home so optimistic about it. I didn't use a chain which would probably be easier, but I tried putting 2x4s into the post and lifting it that way and it snapped 2 posts..which I had to dig a big hole around the base of it and pull it out with a sharp shooter.

So far I have 4 posts out and 4 more to go. Using the ol dig around the base with a pick and then hitting the base just alittle hard to loosen it from the soil with a sledgehammer and then pushing my rock bar down to the base and going back and forth until it pulls out with my sharp shooter.

It is a little work but so far its working out good.

[Goku025]

Oh and screw that 2x6 method I almost pulled my back with that. All it did was bend the wood and didn't even budge that post..

[GeorgeG.]

That's exactly what i used for my fence... Bumper jack and a chain. Wrap the chain around the post, catch it on a nail, get a u bolt and make a loop over the jack "hook" and lift it out of there.

As stated already, go with metal posts.