How do you remove broken fence posts set in concrete anyway?<\/p>\n
Pulling a broken fence post out of concrete is kind of like pulling a tooth \u2013 it\u2019s difficult, painful, and requires some serious effort to get it right. If your fence post is broken near ground level, then you won\u2019t be able to mount another piece of wood to the post to use as leverage.<\/p>\n
That leaves you with a broken, often water-damaged, piece of fence post, and an old concrete footing that needs to come out of the ground. Not an ideal situation.<\/em><\/p>\n You can approach the problem from a few different angles.<\/p>\n You can dig around the post hole, and then use several long pry bars to lever the concrete footing out of the ground. If the wood left inside the footing is not completely rotten, then you can sometimes screw a large eyebolt into the wood and then pull it out with a rope or chain.<\/p>\n You can also use a large pry bar with a chisel end to break up the concrete footing into smaller pieces, and then pull it out by hand.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s take a look at these different ways to remove broken fence posts set in concrete.<\/p>\n Jump To:<\/p>\n