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Philip d

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We're plowing a small pasture and putting corn in it. The top of this rock was sticking up for longer than I've been around. Just for curiosity sakes I moved some clay around it to see if by any luck it's actually not that big and I can twitch it out. NOPE! It is indeed a big one. A friend/neighbour is coming over tomorrow with a Volvo loader and root rake to see if he can flip it out of there.
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Philip now that will make a beautifull rock sign for the end of the driveway or up by the house with your name or the name of the farm engraved in it. don't dump it or bury somewhere, people will pay big money for a rock that size.
 
There you go, I learned something new today. I didn?t think you had any leverites on the Island. In case you need some more I would be happy to donate all of mine. You?ll have to collect them though. Sam
 
I'll see how big it actually is and what shape it has,he doesn't have a grapple on the bucket so I'm not sure if he can transport it or not but if possibly I'd put it on the lawn in front of the barn if it looks nice
 
Haha we do have the odd one left from the ice age and continental drift but they're fairly rare around here,
 
I have dug a lot of those out of my farm ground. I use a big excavator , big tractors [note the plural] chains and a lot of cussing but they can be moved.
 
I dug this one out a few years ago drilled a hole through it and put a pump under it. Now it is a fountain beside our patio.
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We get those around here. Last one I dealt with was in one of the fields my farmer friend owned. He had a 3150 JD with a loader, after a few attempts, I gave up knowing it's just going to break something. Luckily I had permission to use the '02 JD 450 dozer that was on this land to push off fill going into a ravine. In about a 1/2 hour after angling the blade and digging around it, I was able to pop it out of the ground and push off to the side. Was a big one that stood 5'-0" high. One forgets how strong hydraulics are on heavy equipment, it made short work of the task, whereas the tractor would have likely broke something in the process.
 
Fellow around here had a bunch of rocks like that sticking up in his hay field ,this winter he had a track hoe with a jack hammer head on it bust em up. Hauled em to the creek with a front loader. Wouldn't be any good in plowed field.....
 
A guy just off 4th Avenue on the east side of Moline, Ill had a garage right off the bottom of the hill where the street went up on top of the river bluff. One night he hears a BIG crash and somebody coming down the hill didn't make the jog into the alley or the turn onto the street at the bottom of the hill. He parked his car in the guys already occupied 2-stall garage. BIG mess. About a week later a rock about the size of a full size mid-1960's family car was setting in front of the garage diverting traffic.

There is a market for those big rocks!
 
Down here in rockless Florida you can make good money hauling in big field stones from points north.

The "yard art" types sell for almost the same as a big anvil or at least tractor wheel weights.
 
That's what we did. When I was a teenager, my dad borrowed a backhoe from his brother in law and let me get rid of rocks we had farmed around for years. Just dug a deep a hole as I could next to the boulder and rolled them in. A lot of fun for a teenager.
 
I remember my dad saying when he first started farming, he went to uncover a rock like that. by the time he got the top cleared off, he said he could put the farmall H with the farmall loader laid down on the rock and room to spare. Back then it was dynamite that broke it up. Maybe that is why I spent every year picking rock LOL
 
Hammer drill and a long masonry bit. Drilled from top and bottom only took 2 tries to get it to line up.
 
One similar on the farm we used to own, but a crawler could not shake it. We think it is part of a limestone shelf that extends out to form a 50 foot high bluff about 1/4 mile away
 

Nobody pays for any rocks around here unless they are crushed to a uniform size and delivered to the right spot. When I get one that is too big to pull out with my machine I dig down deep decide it and push it in.
 
For fortyeight years we kept hitting two rocks in one field , then one day my old age and short temper i had enough and got the skid steer and put the tooth bucket on it and went at it . Like you the deeper i dug the bigger it got . but that puppy was coming out . By the time i was to the bottom of it i was past eye level with ground level and it was as big if not bigger the the skid steer . I could wiggle it and some what lift it a bit and moved it to the far side of the hole . So i dug a ramp and worked it up the ramp and rolled it about 300 feet to the gully and rold it down the hill taking out several small trees as it went . Filled in that hole and went after it's brother on the east side of the field. same thing had a good start for low income housing basements going when i got that one out . Both took imported dirt to top off the holes . Back when ya could go down to the Hardware store and get large FIRE CRACKERS we took one huge rock and made small gravel out of it , Might have used 10 sticks to many on that one . Made BIG BOOM and rained gravel a long way from where it started.
 
We don't get rocks like that in the Driftless region in Southwestern Wisconsin. When you hit rock, you have a quarry. The last glaciers 12,000 years ago didn't push the granite into big pretty stones around here. We get limestone blocks that can be 5 feet across, but they'll only be 4 inches thick. Make buggers for drilling postholes. I bought a Skidpro posthole digger over the winter and got to use it for the first time yesterday. I could dig as deep as I'd want in one spot, and absolutely couldn't dig deeper than 3 feet in the next. I've drilled 13 holes and already broke the wing tip on the bit...
 
I'm guessing either a 4 foot hammer drill bit, or a compressed air roto screw.(rotary jackhammer with a carbide bit)
 
Glenn, I googled the wrong spelling of the word, and came up with "A Hebrew custom of an obligation to marry your brother's widow." Hopefully, that's the old text!
 
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