berkeley you concrete!

So I had this huge ball of cement/concrete that held a basketball hoop pole in place. The previous owner of my house put it there and it is as if he used an entire 3 yard cement truck to secure it in place. He even filled the pole with cement; hurricane proof?

I had been hitting it with a 16lb sledge hammer for a bout two months. I hadn't made much progress so it was time to get serious. I rented a 30 lb electric jack hammer:

In about an hour and a half I reduced it to a pile of rubble and two bigger halves, freeing the pole.

I know what I want for Christmas! No one is a man until they have handled on of these babies!!

And I also fixed the horn on my jeep, but that is another story for another time.

Patching day at Rantoul is May 8. You get to use one for free, and you get a free lunch! Be there!

Bonus points if you used the jackhammer to fix the Jeep. 8)

LOL

Hammer drills are the shiznit. I own 3.

I spent two days using one of those on a ladder.

You don't get over something like that.

I was waiting for Margie to come in and post, but I guess this is about destroying concrete, not putting in

In my back yard are now 2 concrete slabs. A few months ago the bigger one was the "floor" for a garage...for a SMALL car. The smaller of the 2 is smack dab in the middle of the yard, and has been there long enough that in a few more years it will be below the surface of the ground...just barely. Plans are to put a shed on the former garage slab, but the smaller one? I figure I'll have to break it up...just haven't decided what to do with the concrete chunks.

@integraguy:

There are places that will take broken concrete to recycle it into fill for road projects and such, but typically you will have to take it to them. Broken concrete works well for retaining wall backfill as well.

I bought a basketball pole setup at my first house and it was required to fill the pole with concrete too as it was just a thin walled tubing that would easily bend. so the manufacturer tells you to fill it with concrete.

In reply to 4cylndrfury:

This concrete "pad" is in Fl. so no use for a retaining wall. I figure I will probably break it into smallish chunks that can be used as a sort of inner border to my cedar fence.

Sort of along the same lines, I just remembered my driveway is a mass of crumbled concrete chunks (i don't live where my house is, it's being rented out) and someday that will have to be dealt with. My neighbor's tree has roots that lifted the driveway on their way to my property's water line.

just haven't decided what to do with the concrete chunks.

Local DNC office? (I joke, I keed.)