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Check out the old sign! it was lose so I figured we would have it out the ground in like an hour or less..

Now check out the old footings! GD.. :bitchin: :wtf: .... 2) 1/4"x6 steel with rebar in concrete... :wtf: were they trying to do hold up a frick'n bridge... it took us about 2.5 hours to :construction::jackhammer: jack hammer all the crap up and bend the rebar back into the ground..

Now check out the New Sign.... Sweet! it looks way better then I thought it would. :beer-1:

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:wtf: .... 2) 1/4"x6 steel with rebar in concrete... :wtf: were they trying to do hold up a frick'n bridge...

Old school thinking (which definitely has its merits in today's "only interested in bottom line profits" business mentality these days) of making it to last as long as possible. Personally I see nothing wrong with that approach and thought process. If more U.S. corporations still thought that way we would still be exporting more than we are importing instead of the other way around.

Very nice replacement sign you did though. :thumbs:

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Yeah it was a very well made footing... it just sucks pulling it out when someone does such a good job installing it. I'm sure some one is going to bitch when they have to pull out my 4.5" pipe in a 12" wide x 28' deep with an anti spin flange welded at the bottom...

Thanks for the complement too

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Yeah it was a very well made footing... it just sucks pulling it out when someone does such a good job installing it. I'm sure some one is going to bitch when they have to pull out my 4.5" pipe in a 12" wide x 28' deep with an anti spin flange welded at the bottom...

Thanks for the complement too

Cool! Yeah, they'll bitch. But that's a compliment too :thumbs:

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I'm sure some one is going to bitch when they have to pull out my 4.5" pipe in a 12" wide x 28' deep with an anti spin flange welded at the bottom...

Down here you would never see a footer like that. Most footers don't go more then 48" deep.

I have seen some monster footers pulled out of the ground with motor cranes. The company I work for now always seems to want to pull old footers. Back hoes digging around the footer and 50 ton cranes pulling at critical lift weights and they can't get them out.

We had one that the guys were gonna install and they hit an old footer. I told them to dig to the edges and then get me the depth. The footer was like 25' across and 25' wide and like 5' deep or what ever. This was a little monument like the one shown and my boss didn't want to use the existing footer!

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