He thought it was a rock

jsr8011

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While at the farm this weekend where we hunt (Litchfield MI) the property owner asked one of the guys o take the back hoe and remove a rock. turned out to be a little bigger than a rock.
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thats a whopper!! my neighbor was out v-ripping a couple years ago, i saw him limping down the road on the 7060 allis dragging the ripper. snapped one of the lower lift arms on the 3 point, pretzeled the top link and tore up two shanks on the ripper. hadda ask...."ja hitta rock??" yeah, musta he said. his dad would hit something now and then moldboard plowing in the same spot. i took my backhoe up in the field and dug a little smaller rock than you got. funny how a stone like that can stop ya dead in yer tracks!!
 
Nice little stone. I dig up a few like that every year. Some of those big bruisers just show above ground but when you start to remove them you find that they are hugh and quite deep. It must have been a lot of work to remove them in the old days with just some horses and a few pry bars.
 
There's a rock in one of the fields at the home place that we've known about for years. We've moldboard ploughed over it, and disced over it many times. So we know where it is, but darned if we could ever find an edge to lift it. So, we just leave it be. It had to be 15 feet across. Frost hasn't moved it in over 40 years, so it can stay there.
 
(quoted from post at 16:28:13 04/13/15) Nice little stone. I dig up a few like that every year. Some of those big bruisers just show above ground but when you start to remove them you find that they are hugh and quite deep. It must have been a lot of work to remove them in the old days with just some horses and a few pry bars.
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The Michigan farm I grew up on, in Branch Co, also had several rocks, just under the survice. Would often disconnect the Farmall plow ! As a teen I learned to feel the little bump of the front wheel go over some of them and could lift the plow. One rock I started to dig up (hand shovel) and it got bigger & bigger. Gave up when I could not find the outer edge. It was quite blue in color. Probably worth a fortune ! LOL A few years after we no longer lived there, I saw it out on top of the ground. At least the size of a Volkswagon Beetle.
 
Dig large, deep hole right beside the rock. Roll rock into it. Push dirt back over rock. You're done, move on to the next project.
 


My mother, who would be 101 if she were still alive, told how her father would drill holes in huge boulders with a hammer driven star drill, and then put dynamite and a fuse in it, then light it and run very fast. She also told how much her mother disliked her father doing it. I have tried to dig a few rocks that became very big, and I took care of them with the very large hole bi side it method.
 
Nice find! I would take the boulder and put it in my yard. Have the name of your farm, or address put on it.
 
A guy I work with used to be an equipment operator at a coal mine back in the 80's. One day they started to unearth a large rock and the deeper they dug the bigger it got. They called the boss to see what he wanted to do with it. He said DIG IT OUT!! So they proceeded to dig and dig and dig and the deeper they dug, the bigger the rock got (around 30 feet across).Hours later the boss checked up and saw the huge rock (and it was still getting bigger as they went deeper) and, not realizing how big it was going to get, told them to cover it up and move on.
 
Take it to a local quarry or tombstone/counter top business that saws granite.
Have them cut a nice flat top on it so you have an outdoor table to work on.
Set it just outside your shop door. And yes, they can easily engrave your family or farm name on it.
I would even pour some cement under and/or around it so you don't get your boots muddy when working, just to make it a bit more practical to use.
 
Not really all that big, there is one In the field by my house that sticks up about 2 feet, but the one end of it is a bluff over 1/4 mile away. :lol: Not sure where the other end is.
 
I dug one out just a little larger than that years ago. When I finally budged it out of the ground I found I couldn't lift it with the loader. I laughed to myself and said "Now what..." So I ended up rolling it down the hill little by little to the waterway. Was a long afternoon lol.
 
(quoted from post at 12:45:53 04/13/15) While at the farm this weekend where we hunt (Litchfield MI) the property owner asked one of the guys o take the back hoe and remove a rock. turned out to be a little bigger than a rock.
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think in Texas they call it just a pebble :lol:
 
30 years ago when I had the lumber yard drill holes for a new pole barn, the last hole drilled found a rock like that. All the operator could do was to dig enough around it to move the rock a foot sideways into the inside of the barn. We had to build the barn around the rock with it setting in the corner for about 20 yrs. A few years back I had bought a Mpls Moline G-VI to play with, so one spring day I decided to move the rock out of the barn. I wrapped a chain around it, moved it out of the corner then repositioned the chain and the tractor just slid to rock into my pasture as if it wasn't hooked behind.
The fellow that had drilled the hole used a 3020 JD with loader to move it slightly for the hole, but couldn't budge it out of the way for the building.
Nice shaped rock for a lawn ornament. Last big one I'd dug I used for a driveway marker, had my last name and a deer engraved on it.
 

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