Need a gantry crane for a one time use.

[MikeInOr]

Or something to cause this.

Stupid electric truck driver trying to get a free charge!

 

[stupoty]

Stupid electric truck driver trying to get a free charge!

Blimey . when they say "rigid body" they aren't kidding ay ?

I wouldn't even have thought it possible without it snapping or massively bending.

Stu

 

[Flyinfool]

I did find a really cool rock over the weekend.
It is black granite, with veins of white and pink running thru it.
It has one very flat side that will be the bottom. That bottom is oval shaped and about 30 x 55 inches.
The whole thing tapers up to a point that will be around 60 inches high. All of the veining will be vertical. The sides are as fractured out of a wall of granite, nice and jagged with razor sharp edges. The guy at the quarry estimated it at around 7,000 lbs. I will pay them to deliver and set it. No way I can or want to handle that much weight. Of course the one I picked is in the middle of a big mountain of other black granite boulders where this is one of the smaller ones. They have to dig it out and weigh it to be able to et me a price on the rock and the delivery. I will still have the option to decline if the cost is to high. I also have no idea what the other side looks like. It might be butt ugly on the side I can not see.

Being 5 feet tall it will not disappear from view as a car gets close to it.

I did take some pics of it in the pile but pics are very hard to see what it really looks like. You will have to wait to see it in place if I end up getting it.

I do have a second choice at a different quarry but it is not nearly as pretty.

The quarry did hove one big chunk of pink granite that they would sell me real cheap just to make it go away. But it is around 10 TONs, ie 20,000 Lbs. I would have to hire a crane to load it on a lowboy semi and then another crane to unload and place in my yard. That one will stop almost anything that can make it down the alley.

 

[pontiac428]

I dunno, EVs are durn heavy. Does the boulder outweigh a cybertruck?

 

[rwm]

Awesome!

 

[WobblyHand]

I dunno, EVs are durn heavy. Does the boulder outweigh a cybertruck?

Needs a bigger rock. Thinking the 10T is in the future. Pink granite is nice, I've heard.

 

[Boswell]

It has one very flat side that will be the bottom. That bottom is oval shaped and about 30 x 55 inches.
The whole thing tapers up to a point that will be around 60 inches high. All of the veining will be vertical. The sides are as fractured out of a wall of granite, nice and jagged with razor sharp edges. The guy at the quarry estimated it at around 7,000 lbs. I will pay them to deliver and set it.

Now that sounds like a solution that will work.
1. Will be effective
2. Will look nice
3. You don't have to move it
4. will be visible to drivers