So earlier this week I decided to get rid of the basketball hoop. Little did I know that the above ground stuff would be the easiest part. Originally I just took the top off and used a come-along to convince the pole to snap about 1' up from the concrete thanks to a nearby beech tree. Feeling quite proud of myself I then retired for the night flush with success. Skip forward to today, after having lunch at Cheeseburger in Paradise, we were both full and feeling guilty for not doing anything productive today. So we decide to dig the concrete base out of the ground. I mean afterall the old mailpost only had like two teaspoons of concrete around it...how hard could this be? This is how hard it could be....2 1/2 feet of freakin' concrete....basically you could use this to tie down a large boat. I'm sure i've seen deck posts with less concrete in them than this. Perhaps the child who lived here was amazingly fat and athletic, and so to brace for his girth on the pole they poured this all. Kind of like a guy trying to capture a shark using a tiny little fishing pole. And the after picture of the hole......
so between winching, using the come-along, and leveraging using the old pole we managed to get it out. btw, word of advice....after 6 inches everything else is ROCK HARD CLAY!!!!!