RECENTLY BOUGHT A HOME AND WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN OUTDOOR TRASH CAN THAT IS MADE OF STONE AND CEMENTED INTO THE GROUND. HOW WOULD I BE ABLE TO REMOVE IT AND HOW FAR IN WOULD IT BE IN THE GROUND. IS THIS COMMON FOR 1950S BUILT HOUSE.
First: Next to the letter A key on your keyboard, there's a key called Caps lock. Tap it once so that the light called Caps Lock goes off. 98% of the people on the entire internet do not like when you type with all capital letters. Now, on to the trash can issue. If it was me I would take these steps: 1. Revisit whether or not to actually remove the can. Weigh benefits and costs of keeping it there. Since I don't know your main plan, I can't help here. 2. You'll need these tools: Chisel (cold?coal?), sledge hammer, lots of energy, and a bad attitude. 3. Use the sledge hammer to knock the snot of the concrete. Haul away the chips. Repeat.
Hello It depends on its location the 50's not all areas had proper drainage or water supplies so maybe a well for water supply or a soak away for drainage as regards removal if want to remove intact you will need to break up the surrounding cement best way to do this to avoid damage would be to hire or borrow a Kango style demolition Hammer SDS Plus, they are relatively light weight and with the high vibration impacting movement you are less likely to damage the stone artifact, once surrounding cement removed you can try levering up with some scaffold poles or set up an A frame over the top and use a block and tackle to lift out, if however you want to just break up and remove take a 14 lb sledge hammer to it and cement over. Good Luck Regards Alan
just plant something in it.
The only thing I can imagine it would be for is as a rain barrel. - Is it situated under the eaves of the house? I would think it would only be sitting on the surface of the earth. - Maybe sunk down a few inches over the years. You will need a long handled sledgehammer ...and a good rest afterward. Pay no attention to jerks that go scorning and berating people for using upper case. - I use upper case as just part of my personality. YEAH!
May have been a fire pit, or even a well since you don't know how deep it is. No tellin how deep it would be without finding the bottom. Either break it up with a sledge hammer or jack hammer, or bury it, or dig it out with a tractor, or with a bunch of guys with shovels. Last method requires a lot of beers. Definitely a custom addition not something common to many homes, unless its some regional thing.
