Fence Post Pulling Rig with a Harbor Freight Farm Jack

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In this video, I show how to use a Harbor Freight farm jack, two 2x4's and a length of chain to quickly pull out fence post. This can also be used to pull out the concrete base where the post has rotted away. You'll still need to do a lot of digging for those, but at least it makes it easier to pull out the concrete base.

The chain we use is 5/16". The 2x4s are 4'9" - because that's what I had on hand. I think anything that's about 6"-12" longer than your jack would work. I used a 1/2" x 6" bolt to hold them together. Be sure to make the holes large enough and leave the bolt loose enough to let you move the 2x4's to be able to make the tripod shape.

12/1/20 update - I took out four 15 year old burning bushes over the weekend. Just trimmed off the tops so I had about 1 foot left to wrap the chain around. Worked like a champ. I used a "beater" ax to cut through the smaller roots in the soil as I jacked it up to make extraction easier. Harder than the fence posts, but still worked just fine.

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Thanks for throwing the toy for the dog! Great video.

lindaj

Brilliantly simple!! Needed to keep my jack from leaning into the post and this did the trick!

Quicken

Oh hell to the yeah. About to do a large fence job and was trying to figure out the easiest way to remove some posts. You the man and thank you

landybob

This video helped alot with the removal of our fence posts due to the A frame technique. Agree that it only takes a few minutes per post to pull them out. Thank you very much for the info.

heggr

This is Amazing. Thank you for sharing 4 posts out in 20 minutes. No digging 🤩

emilydalhouse

I’ve used the handyman jack trick for years. I have never added legs to the jack before. Makes too much sense. I’ll be giving it a go here in a day or two. Thanks for the video.

benthompson

Thanks for your excellent video! I was trying to remove 10 and 20 ft tall 6x6 posts held with 3 bags of concrete in 4 ft Sonotubes. Your idea made it possible to extract them without dying. Much appreciated!!!!

feeshermann

I've always used an old car jack that you can grab from a salvage yard for a few bucks - worked great.

XY_Dude

I pulled post like that lot.. Never thought of using 2x4s. I am changing my way. thanks

paulboutilier

I LOVE your cute dog who wants to help!

scottslotterbeck

Using the jack without the tripod method like you show here is a pain in the ass. My posts were breaking at ground level so without the tripod I couldn’t get any leverage. I was about to give up and dig em out till I saw this. Saved me tons of time! Great video

nathanleigh

The best and most complete method yet. Thanks

adrianlouviere

Nice idea. I need to the pull the concrete out as the posts have rotted off. I will use your idea combined with a pair of ice tongs to pull them loose.

ankerpearce