Re: another rock...........

Posted by The tractor vet on May 31, 2014 at 07:59:59 from (75.19.114.155):

In Reply to: another rock........... posted by Kow Farmer on May 30, 2014 at 18:14:14:

Couple years ago while i was deep ripping i found two that took three shear bolts out on the deep till ripper at the same time , So i decided that enough was enough and went after them with the skid steer . Put the bucket on with the digging teeth and started digging on the first one thinking this won't take long. Yea wright , you could have built a small house in the hole on the first one and what i found was a rock the size of the skid steer . I had to dig a ramp to get it up and out , i could lift it to roll it and that was about all i could do with it . I had to roll it about three hundred feet to the edge of the field and over the edge down into the ravine , next one was no smaller and it went to the other end of the field . That leaves one more to get maybe this year . Rocks are not in short supply around here . A few years back while leveling a new barn site for my one friend i found a heart shaped pink rock that when i first hit it it about threw me out of the seat of the dozer . Nah we ain't bouncing over this rock it has got to go . I started working on it and what i found was this PINK heart shaped rock that was as big a a 750 J John Deere dozer and it was all that that dozer wanted to handle as i could not just push it i had to roll it and heart shaped rocks don't roll well. I got it out of the way of the work site and the local Vet saw it and wanted it . Vernon told him he could have it for free if he could figure out how to load and haul it . I figure that rock has to weigh about thirty ton or better. The Vet thought that w could just use two skid steers and set it on his little trailer . The rock is still setting where i pushed it . The biggest rock i have found in my life time was about 40 some years ago while i was working stripping coal . I was running a 992 Cat loader and we were going after the coal that was under old spoil and it had about sixty feet of org cover over that . We were putting the old spoil back into the old open pit and there was lots of rocks of all sizes . We had two D9's pushing and a D8 and a 988 Cat also working . I was the one that found this one and worked for hours digging around it . To move it it took both loaders and both D9's to move it the 100 or so feet into the old cut . The sad part of this is that the OLD shovel that put that rock there some sixty years before did it by it's self as we were told by the old farmer that was a boy when the farm was first stripped . That rock was wide enough that all four machines were side by side and it was taller then the cab on the 992 .

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