To remove the fence post and concrete base where the actual fence post had rotted and broken, I tried the following options, depending on how rotten the remaining posts wood in concrete was.
As below, using the scissor jack, I attached a Ring eye plate to the top of the post stump and lifted concrete base from the ground using strong nylon rope.
If this failed, and it often did, then I resorted to digging out one side of the concrete post to full depth of concrete and about 150mm in width so that I can then lever behind concrete base with my 5ft crow bar and gentle wiggle out concrete post which was then lifted out.
After a few posts removed in this manner, I got it to a fine art in that very little extra soil was removed and this saved on extra (unnecessary) PostCrete being used etc.
Concrete base with rotten post replacement used approximately 2 x (20Kg) bags of PostCrete per post.
Note: I did find, wetting the mud/clay around the concrete base before I tried to move it did help.
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