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Technique for picking stones

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Case450

04-17-2007 17:55:13




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I had some ditching done last fall on the road to my house. I noticed the material the guys were digging up had a lot of fair size stones in it. The stones average about four feet across in size and around two feet thick. I had them dump the ditching material onto a corner of my property with the idea of picking the large stone out later and using the leftover for the road to help firm it up.
I have a massey 470 wheel loader w/ a 1.25 yard bucket (not a heavy machine by any standards) and a case 450 crawler loader (obviously) AND a homemade backhoe (a backhoe thats been modified to mount on my tractor).
Armed with these weapons (lol) what would be the best method of picking out these larger stones out of the rubble? I was thinking of using the bulldozer and walking around the pile and pushing out the choice stones to where the loader can pick them up and then bulldozing the leftover into a bit of a stockpile.
What would you old school operators recommend?

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Lee Bradley

04-18-2007 13:55:42




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 Re: Technique for picking stones in reply to Case450, 04-17-2007 17:55:13  
I would just start cutting from one side of the pile, with the dozer, and moving material toward the stockpile. The big rocks will roll up on top of the material your pushing and you can kick them off to the side for later collection.



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Case450

04-18-2007 15:56:55




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 Re: Technique for picking stones in reply to Lee Bradley, 04-18-2007 13:55:42  
I was at 'er tonight and wow, is that hard on the machine. Those stones really push the machine around. I think I spent more time tiptoeing around the rocks then I did actually moving anything. I had to stop early because all that vibration has broken my very brittle and welded three times muffler. The muffler tip fell over as I was lowering the boom and she got bent pretty near shut. I tried cutting the piles (about fifty dumptruck piles) or rather the edge of the collection of piles and found she's still frozen solid underneath. I ended up using the bucket to pull out the free stones and then pushing those off to the side. This is definitely not my cup of tea. Contemplating hiring an excavator to rock pick.

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