Rural Gardening: Homestead High Tunnel, 1 by Jayryunen

Jayryunen wrote:
Through a miscommunication, one post managed to get driven in too far. Naturally it was set in that clay corner, and nothing was budging it. We yanked and kicked, pryed, bent nails and broke bolts. Nothing. As darkness fell last night, we dug half way down, filled the hole with water, and went inside.

As soon as it was light enough to see (because the transit had to go back to the rental place first thing) we got out there and tried again. I bolted a board to it, put one end on a flat rock and a car jack under the other and slowly we cranked the jack up. And it WORKED! Nice and easy. Here's the set-up, if anyone ever needs to pry a stubborn something out. This picture also shows the hammers we used to drive the posts in... a #3 sledge and a maul.