Re: Now comes the hard part

Posted by the tractor vet on December 19, 2021 at 09:00:18 from (108.220.145.239):

In Reply to: Now comes the hard part posted by crooked rows on December 19, 2021 at 06:46:08:

A few yeas back a friend asked me to come and run dozer to make the pad for there new composting barn . He rented a New John Deere 750 J . The pad was to be around 350 long and 300 wide and at the one end due to ground slope would be around 12 foot deep with a fill on the east end of around the same . he had bids from excavators upwards of 14 K to do this and they all went on and on how many pieces of equipment and man power needed . Vernon asked me what all was needed to do this and i told him one dozer and me . Not much different then the oil field locations i built back in the mid seventys into the early eightys . I was down around 7 feet on the west side pushen east when we hit something , HUMMMMM ROCK . It's got to go , i started digging around it and found a Bright PINK rock the more i dug the bigger it got and the more the shape of the rock came into view it was a perfect hart shape and was bigger then the 750 and went down below final grade by three feet . To get it out it took Vernon's 2255 oil all over the 1950, the 1855, his brothers 1066 , my 806 and a 706 plus the 750 and that was after i cut a ramp. we had just got it out of the way and setting off the work area when his vet came in to check the cows and he went all gooooofffffy over this PINK Heat shaped rock and asked if he could have it . Vernon told him knock your socks off if you can move it it is yours N/C . HE footed the bill for the fifty ton crane and it was really all it wanted and they set it on a fifty ton lowboy and put A good sag in the beams and made the tires sag. When they pulled out the lane onto the hyway they had a sight hill to go up and that 425hp Mack had all it wanted . Good thing was they only had two and a half mile to go. , The next big rock i found was baqck in the early 70's while running a Cat 992 loader stripping coal , This little pebble once uncovered was twice as large as the 992 and just as tall . It was setting about thirty feet away from the old cut and it had to go . with the 992 , 2 D9's 1 D 8 and a 988 loader and half a day to move it and roll it into the old cut . Dug two out the size of a new holland LX665 couple years aqo

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