Friday, April 20, 2007
The old washing line pole in the middle of the garden has been bugging me for a while. Here it is in February, in the snow.
We thought "Sure, how difficult can it be to dig out. Usually these things have a ball of concrete around them, about a foot down". So, while we had a skip, we started digging.
We ended up a bit more than a foot down...
It didn't stand *that* much taller than N. All but a foot below the bed was underground.
How did we get it out. Well, N dug a really big hole. Finally it started moving and was rocked into a 45 degree angle. After being attacked with a lump hammer, it was bend, so it was parallel to the ground. Then N got the jack from his car, jacked up the bit above ground and used it as a lever to get the bottom half out the ground.
We have a bit of a dip in the lawn, but its now gone.
We thought "Sure, how difficult can it be to dig out. Usually these things have a ball of concrete around them, about a foot down". So, while we had a skip, we started digging.
We ended up a bit more than a foot down...
It didn't stand *that* much taller than N. All but a foot below the bed was underground.
How did we get it out. Well, N dug a really big hole. Finally it started moving and was rocked into a 45 degree angle. After being attacked with a lump hammer, it was bend, so it was parallel to the ground. Then N got the jack from his car, jacked up the bit above ground and used it as a lever to get the bottom half out the ground.
We have a bit of a dip in the lawn, but its now gone.
// posted by Buzzy Bee @ 4:08 pm 
