Getting 'stoned' In My Backyard

[TommyD]

This was my first attempt at getting a rather large Boulder into my fel, it didn't go as planned. It was too big and heavy to scoop up so I wrapped a chain around the back of it and hope by lifting it up and tilting the bucked back it would slide right in.....hoped. It caught on the lip of the bucket and cutting edge and just stayed there. I set it back down and the next try was a success. The front tires were none too happy and it took a bunch of two armed tugging on the steering wheel to try and negotiate a couple of gentle corners with no luck. Set it back down, turned the Ford around and pushed it with the backhoe into it's final resting place in my discard rock pile. We here have more rocks than I have ever had in any of my properties,I have walls, benches and patios all over the property.

 

[Billh50]

I have a couple neighbors that actually went out and got big rocks put in their front yard.

 

[Scruffy]

I have sold big rocks to people.
Thanks ron

 

[GK1918]

What I do is bury them deeper right where they are.

 

[ogberi]

Tannerite...

 

[FOMOGO]

I see you have the little brother to my machine (755). If you extent the hoe all the way out it will help a lot with steering. Also make sure your front tires are inflated to max allowable psi. You will get better at getting them in the bucket with a little practice. Looks like you will have plenty of opportunity.
Yes, people pay big money for large landscaping rocks, my buddy gets $800-1000 a truck load for them. Personally I love rocks, and from time to time make a trip down the county road with the hoe and grab some from the county right of way, that are obscured by bushes, or I decide won't be missed ascetically on my walks up the canyon (no houses there). Cheers, Mike

 

[brino]

I have sold big rocks to people.

Cash and carry only!
-brino

 

[chips&more]

Yes, extend the hoe and also put a rock(s) in it as well.

 

[Terrywerm]

Years back I worked in a landfill here in Minnesota. We sold one boulder to a marina that put it at the end of their driveway as an address marker. Estimated weight of that boulder was just shy of 60000 pounds. We had to lift it with two 988 Cat loaders facing each other. We lifted it up, then backed a lowboy trailer underneath it and set it down on the deck. Don't know how they unloaded and placed it at its destination.