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your not alone Dave !

Did the guy with the fence post at the end of his drive, that kept being knocked down, ever replace it with a lookalike steel one filled with concrete?

Given the number of diy injuries per year, chances are all the above posters are still in hospital from their attempts.

ISTR Andy heated up the drill bit to shatter the stone to pull it out, and as he pulled, no less than 3.4m of drill bit came out. Apparently the heat softened it enough for the metal to draw, and the tip only became free once it had shrunk down to about 2.8mm. He now has a softened 3.4m 2.8mm bit, which should be useful for drilling through very very very deep loft insulation to run cables. Thin cables, for bells. But not much else.

NT

Yep. After I cut a new (different) thread onto the slide hammer stop, the engineer went back. It was the work of just a couple of minutes to get the drill out.

So very many thanks for all the suggestions.

I have mailed him to get an answer for you David. :¬)