Fence Removal
- 1). Put on gloves to protect hands and safety glasses for eye protection.
- 2). Remove wooden panels as used on stockade, privacy or picket fences with a hammer. Pry the panel loose from the cross rail with the claw of a hammer or pound the panel from the opposite side to help loosen. Use a nail puller to assist in removing deeply set or damaged nails.
- 3). Remove wire fence from fence posts with pliers and wire cutters. Cut strips of wire from around fence posts that hold the wire fence to the post. Unwrap wire that secures the end of a fence, such as barbed wire, to a post. Pry staples from wooden posts with a nail puller or hammer claw that hold wire fence to a wood fence post.
- 4). Remove fence rails from posts with a hammer and nail puller. Pull nails from fence rails with the hammer claw or pound the fence from the back to loosen. Remove split rails from fences by rocking the fence back and forth until the distance between posts increases and the split rail can be removed.
- 5). Remove posts that are not set in concrete by pushing them back and forth to loosen and then pull up to remove.
- 6). Attach a scrap piece of 2-by-4 lumber to a wood post 1 foot off the ground. Secure the lumber to the post with wood screws and a drill with driver. Place a concrete block two to three feet away from the post. Position the point of the pry bar under the attached 2-by-4 and over the concrete block for leverage. Push down on the end of the pry bar to apply upward pressure on the fence post for removal.
- 7). Dig metal fence posts that are difficult to remove and other posts that are secured in the ground with concrete. Use a shovel, pick and pry bar to remove dirt from around the post and concrete. Use the pry bar to help leverage the concrete and post out of the hole for removal.
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