Clothesline Pole
Has anybody had a clothesline pole that is set in the cement in the back yard removed? Ours is unsightly and we don’t use it. I would love to hear recommendations and what people paid. Thanks
Has anybody had a clothesline pole that is set in the cement in the back yard removed? Ours is unsightly and we don’t use it. I would love to hear recommendations and what people paid.
Thanks
if your back yard is long enough for it to fall straight back. just get a saw and have someone tie a rope and pull in the direction of the long yard.
i did it with my brother for my back yard.
i forget what that type of saw is called. it uses those cut off wheel things.
anyway its not that hard. just becareful. i think they shouldn’t charge more than like a few hundred bucks for it. cause people take away the metal for free.
10:51 here again- the crazy $3K lady. I spoke to my husband and I misspoke about our price. We had an iron worker take down the clothes line & the rickety fire escapes on the back of our house for $3K. Still, this seems high and I’ve been told the price of scrap metal has increased. Anyway, we still probably got ripped off but maybe not as badly as I thought.
Good luck OP!
I removed one of these myself. I started with a sawzall but halfway through I started to rock it back and forth for some reason. I found that the metal was very soft, I think it may have been lead and by by rocking it I was able to weaken the bottom and it actually just snapped off. After that I dug a hole around the base and was able to break it up a bit with a sledgehammer. It was actually a bunch of bricks and other debris held together with some cement so it wasn’t that hard a job. I was then able to dig the larger pieces out and fill in the hole.
Kind of a hack job but the whole thing only took me an hour or so and it wasn’t too difficult. If you’re not up for it I’m sure you could find a handyman who can do it for you.
If the pole was built right, the foundation should go down to the frost line (3.5 to 4 feet). You may not really need to remove the full depth — if you just want to re-pave the area or plant grass you only need to take out the top 8-12″. It shouldn’t be a very big job; in fact, it’s probably too small a job to interest most contractors, which might explain the crazy pricing above ($3k?!?).
The fully DIY method of dealing with this is to rent a small jackhammer from HD or Lowes and break up the concrete yourself, bag it up in small, light loads in contractor bags and put it out with your household trash, a few bags at a time until it’s all gone. Substitute craigslist person, day laborer, rubbish removal person, or full-service contractor for any/all of the above steps and you’ll pay more, accordingly.
If I were in your shoes, I would choose DIY or wait until I had a more substantial scope of work for a contrator to price — maybe there are other things you would like to have demolished, built, or re-done around the yard/house?
OK be serious, you really think the polar ice caps are melting because of clothes driers? I don’t drive an SUV, I use compact florescent lights, I recycle, etc. etc. If I am opening myself up to abuse because I don’t want to hang my clothes on a line I guess I will take my chances. 3K does seem a little steep to me though so maybe I will just keep it there.
Aren’t we all supposed to USE the clothesline pole to DRY our CLOTHES on a LINE attached to the POLE to prevent the ice-caps from melting?
If successful in your endeavor I hope you have the fortitude to stand up to the criticism for being politically incorrect.
Hell for $3k I’ll happily chop it down and leave the big ugly concrete base behind.
Guest at 10:51 got taken.
10:51 – So, they just cut off the pole from the base? For 3K? Wow…I’ve been wanting to get rid of it from my yard too, but wondering how deep that thing goes underground…has anyone done it himself/herself?
We had ours removed a couple of years ago by an iron works company. I think it cost $3K. In retrospect, we probably got ripped off!
Unfortunately, that didn’t include the destruction of the big concrete hump it was sitting on-just the removal of the clothes line itself.