How to move a boulder the size of a VW Bug

Gene

Take an iron crowbar and drive it down into the ground in several places, close to the stone and all the way around it. Then take a handful of cracked corn and dump it into each hole. Next, put a small fence around the stone a few feet out from it, and pen up a couple of pigs inside.

The pigs will root out around the stone to get at the cracked corn. If you need to get deeper, drive more holes with the crowbar and add more cracked corn until you get the depth you need.

Once you do this, the stone will no longer be half-buried, and you can get a chain on it or do whatever it is you plan on doing next. . .

For me, the next task would be finding equipment big enough to move something of that size and weight -- I'd strongly consider splitting that stone in half at least once before trying to move it; it's awfully easy to break equipment and bend things when dealing with this kind of super-heavy stuff.

-- Maine Fordson

The feathers and wedges are reusable and not terribly expensive. I bought a set of 3/4" ones off of the internet. I would recommend an SDS rotary hammer to drill the holes, however.

Cliff (VA)

The grouts are a lot less "fun" than various high-explosives, but one of them should break those boulders into more manageable pieces. You can buy such products over the counter, and use them without worry about "National Security Letters" and the like.

One example is this stuff:

http://www.cessco.us/dexpan.html