Patent ID: 8734075

Claim:
A pole butt extraction tool comprises an unconventionally threaded shaft and a hub, said unconventionally threaded shaft having a minor diameter, a major diameter, a hub end and a terminal end, said terminal end provided with a conical point, said shaft having a length from said conical point to said hub end of at least 24 inches, said conical point adapted to center said shaft into a hole previously drilled into a pole butt, said minor diameter approximately equal to said hole drilled into said pole butt buried in an earth hole, said major diameter defining a thread upon said minor diameter of said shaft, said major diameter as a ratio to said minor diameter greater than a major diameter/minor diameter ratio of Unified Coarse Thread Series (UNC), said hub comprising means for attachment to said hub end of said unconventionally threaded shaft and means for attachment to a Kelly bar of a pole hole digging unit wherein said unconventionally threaded shaft of said pole butt removal tool is threadedly driven into said hole drilled into said pole butt by said pole hole digging unit, said thread rapidly cutting threads into said pole butt for rapid removal of said pole butt from said earth hole.