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How to remove old utility pole?

I am trying to clean up a piece of property i recently acquired and there are three old utility poles on it that used to be for meter boxes for some mobile homes that were on the property.i have already been told by the power company that they are my poles and my problem.They are probably six to ten feet shorter than standard power and telephone poles.Two of them are 4x6 and one is round,Not sure how deep they are.I do not have access to bucket trucks,cranes,tractors or anything like that.Short of digging out around them with a shovel is there an easy way i can remove them? Thanks.

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Tungsten is a hard steel-grey metal that is often brittle and hard to workIf made very pure, tungsten retains its hardness and becomes malleable enough that it can be worked easilyIt is very dense so it is used in place of lead for some weights and in bullets/artillery slugsIt is also a common material layer in semiconductors and other electronics, sometimes as an alloySome tools are made of it because it doesn't react with other particular materials.
Utility poles for temporary power services are useful to contractorsI would place a take for free ad in your local Craigslist under the materials category and the free categoryPost a couple of photos of the poles and offer them to anybody who has the equipment to take them, with your phone number to contactA contractor with an auger or boom truck could pull them out and re-use them if you want to remove them yourself and the soil is not too dense, soak it with a hose so it is soft and muddy (or wait until after a heavy rain - if you are on the east coast that will be everywhere this week) and then back a truck bumper up against the poles and push them repeatedly on one side and then anotherOften this loosens them enough that you can drag them out of the groundIt's a technique my service crews used to use to get temporary poles out at construction sites when we had to remove them.

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