Posted by Hal/Eastern WA on June 01, 2012 at 17:09:32 from (97.119.244.50):
In Reply to: MOVING BIG ROCKS posted by Detmurds on May 31, 2012 at 18:42:42:
Big rocks in the front yard are a pain to mow around, but are effective at keeping people from driving across your yard, intentionally or not. Or else you find out who is victimizing you because their car ends up sitting high centered and stuck in your yard.
If you already have the big rocks loose from where they were, and can roll them over, it wouldn"t be much of a trick to roll them over onto a junk car hood or something you made as a sled with 2x6 or wider planks bolted together. When I was a kid, we removed hundreds of tons of rocks from our fields with a stone boat my Dad made. It had metal runners on the long boards that touched the ground and I think it had a metal hitch. At any rate, we could pull it with our VAC Case and handled some rocks that were probably weighed more than 1000 lbs by using long bars as levers to roll the rocks onto the stone boat. Later we got a Ford with a loader and found that it was a whole lot easier to unload that trip bucket than it was to roll or throw rocks off the stone boat. But for only moving a few rocks, an improvised stone boat is probably the easiest and cheapest way to go.
It is not all that easy to keep a chain around a rock to try to drag it. I have used chains to help me pull some large rocks out of the ground after I had dug around them, but couldn"t get them to lever loose. But pulling a rock any distance has meant resetting the chain over and over. Annoying and slow, but a way to move some large rocks that are too big for the loader to handle. But hopefully not too far.
I wouldn"t worry much about liability from having large rocks displayed in your front yard. It is not like you are putting chunks of metal pipe sticking out of the ground a foot and then painting them green to camouflage them in the grass. If the idiots cannot see the large rocks that are well off the road right-of-way, they shouldn"t be driving, and certainly shouldn"t be driving on your property.
I know a guy in the Spokane Valley who lives right where a long straight section of road stops and the arterial goes 90 degrees. Over the years his house was hit twice by errant drivers. So this guy built a rock garden between his house and the road, with some really big rocks included. Drunks have hit the big rocks a couple of times, but the house has remained safe since he put in his "rock garden". Something to think about...
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