Railroad Spike Remover

A portable apparatus for removing a railroad spike from a rail tie, the apparatus comprising:

• a main housing that includes an upper housing and a lower housing, wherein the upper housing includes a bearing housing that contains one or more bearings;
• a drive shaft connected to the main housing and a mounting flange, the drive shaft extending through the one or more bearings and an opening in the bearing housing;
• a T-handle assembly connected to the main housing and configured to hold a battery-operated drill-type tool that connects to and rotates the drive shaft, wherein the T-handle assembly includes one or more fastening straps configured to secure the battery-operated drill-type tool to the apparatus;
• and
• a claw assembly extractor connected to the drive shaft via the mounting flange, wherein the claw assembly extractor includes a pair of jaw members that are pivotally connected to each other by a pivoting pin and a rotating pin, and further wherein each jaw member includes a lower end configured to contact and secure a railroad spike and a pair of upper members interlocked with each other,
• wherein when the drive shaft is rotated, the claw assembly extractor and the mounting flange moves inside the main housing in a vertical direction to extract the railroad spike from the rail tie.