Recent high winds blew the gate at the side of my house such that it broke the top hinge pin away from the post on which it was mounted, taking part of the post with it.

I have removed the damaged post and found that there are three anchor bolts still in the wall, presumably from a previous post as they were too short to extend through the removed post and were accommodated in clearance holes.

I dont want to do that with the new post so would like to cut them off as near to the wall surface as possible. I can't get a hacksaw near enough to the wall, even with the blade rotated through 90° to the normal position.

Anyone have any ideas how I can accomplish this without investing in more tooling?

Cut them reasonably short then you can just hammer the rest back into the wall and fill over the top with mortar

Btw

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Hmmm, that sounds reasonable, if they can be driven further in.

I shall have to apply a few experimental clouts with the club hammer.

If you think about it that's how they work. When you tighten them up the threaded section pulls out and expands the sleeve.

You're just bashing it back in

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They don't always knock in further, but hopefully you will be lucky.

Bit long winded, but take the blade out, put some tape round it to create a handle, it will be flexible enough to cut flush then.
Might want to put something against the wall to stop the blade rubbing it.

You can get handle things for this purpose, only a couple of quid for a cheap one.
Like this-
http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Hand%20 ... d70/p17394

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Thank you both for the help.

I've had 66.6% success. I sorted two of them out as Razor suggested , then got sidetracked. The third one is rather further into the brick and is stuck quite fast but I shall cut it off anyway and see if it will comply with the hammer's instructions.