Last of the rocks (PIC)

oldtanker · Sep 19, 2013

Finished up at the BIL's today. This was the big one. I did these ith my old and very used JCB 3CIII. The guy in the photo is my nephew who is working toward taking over the farm.

Had to dig deep beside it, roll it in and put about 4 feet of dirt over it.

Rick

Frank 41 · Sep 19, 2013

You should have rolled it out and put it your front yard.

Gene Dotson · Sep 19, 2013

Rick;

Several years ago I rented the farm on the road behind me. I had a Cat D-4 at the time. Was cleaning some brush and fence rows. I finished that and the owner asked me to dig out a large rock that was a problem. I dug all around the rock as deep as I could go. Still hadn't found the bottom. Owner was ready to give up. Was no way the D-4 would push it out of the hole. Finally dug down beside it and rolled it into the hole. Like you, I covered it with 4 feet of dirt and leveled it out. Always wondered if it has found its way back to the surface.

Gene

Dick2 · Sep 19, 2013

We had some larger ones. Dozed the dirt off the top and discovered that the HD7 could sit on top of the rock, which rock out beyond all sides of the HD7. Had to get a D8 to come in; he couldn't push it so he just kept flipping it until he got it out of the field.

fixerupper · Sep 19, 2013

You found quite a nugget there. We don't have many that size in my neck of the woods. About twenty miles from here there's a rock that looks like a haystack in a field about 1/4 mile from the road. The old timers say it's always been there and the part of the rock above ground is the small part of it. Jim

SweetFeet · Sep 19, 2013

I think you unearthed a small mountain.

donjr · Sep 19, 2013

Texas doorstop....

Royse · Sep 19, 2013

This too will pass, unless it's a kidney stone! LOL

NCWayne · Sep 19, 2013

Had a neighbor years ago that had one like that sitting in his field. He had an excavator in for something else and asked the guy to dig it out for him while he was there. They dug as deep as the thing would dig, but the rock kept getting broader and broader as they went down, and they never did reach the bottom. Now that was one massive rock.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 20, 2013

You might have been able to sell it for up to $1000!
I moved a rock from a vacant field for a customer
and they said to buy a similar sized rock from the
landscape supply would have cost 6-$700 and it was
about 1/3 the size of that one. I couldn't pick it
up with the skid steer but could flip it over to get
it on my trailer. That would be a nice rock to stand
on edge with maybe a name or address on it. There is
another place here that all they do is sell and
place big rocks.

oldtanker · Sep 20, 2013

(quoted from post at 22:13:27 09/19/13) You might have been able to sell it for up to $1000!
I moved a rock from a vacant field for a customer
and they said to buy a similar sized rock from the
landscape supply would have cost 6-$700 and it was
about 1/3 the size of that one. I couldn't pick it
up with the skid steer but could flip it over to get
it on my trailer. That would be a nice rock to stand
on edge with maybe a name or address on it. There is
another place here that all they do is sell and
place big rocks.

LOL there was a guy near here that started doing that in the 90's. He dug some rock out for a farmer and was supposed to haul them off. So he pushed them to the side of the field by a road so they would be easy to load. While he was loading them a woman stops and ask how much to have one delivered to her lake shore home and placed on the lawn. The guy told her 1500 delivered and placed thinking she would go away. Added another facet to his small business. Use to love to listen to him tell that story.

Rick

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