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Posted: 12/17/2020 12:10:46 AM EDT

I recently got 40 acres at my place with 8 wooded that’s loaded with huge boulders. Without renting equipment or hiring it out do any of you have any genius ideas how to move them? I’m thinking of building a stone boat to use behind my truck. I’m thinking if we get a couple inches of snow the sled with the Boulder may move easier. Looking to get a Boulder down about 200 yards out of the woods and down a gravel driveway.

Sorry I’m poor and hate paying others for things I can do even if it takes me 10x longer.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:12:40 AM EDT

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A lever. Sometimes a long lever.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:14:37 AM EDT

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First post Archimedes it.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:14:50 AM EDT

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Oxen

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:15:26 AM EDT

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Ask the ancient Egyptians.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:15:38 AM EDT

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I feel like you need to watch some how they might have built the Egyptian pyramids or moved Easter Island statues on YouTube

On flat hard ground you can roll heavy safes on pipes, but in this case doubt that will work.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:17:08 AM EDT

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Yep. Tree trunks make great levers. Cut down tree, cut off limbs, THEN the work starts. Bring friends.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:17:58 AM EDT

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Maybe make them smaller with a jackhammer first.
Eta. -or dynamite.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:18:35 AM EDT

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When in doubt...... C4
Just make some anfo and party.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:19:04 AM EDT

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Step 1: Gather a bunch of slaves
Step 2: ???????
Step 3: Profit/pyramid!

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:19:10 AM EDT

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Best method - a check

Most expensive method - a check

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:22:11 AM EDT

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Heavy equipment. Farmers used to plough around the big boulders until dozers came along. I’ve seen a few glacier dropped boulders the size of sheds and small houses that are still right where God wanted them even in an age where D-11s exist.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:23:41 AM EDT

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Posted: 12/17/2020 12:26:06 AM EDT

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How heavy? Do you have a truck? Put chains or cables around it and drag it. You have trees? Cut some down and make a sled.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:28:24 AM EDT

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Can you get a truck to it?

Place a car hood next to the rock. Wrap a chain around the rock and pull it onto the car hood. Drag the hood/rock combo with the truck to where you want it.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:28:38 AM EDT

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stone boat can move a stupid amount of weight if the surface you are dragging it across is flat enough.

define boulder....

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:35:59 AM EDT

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Want to break them up? With this stuff you can drill a few holes in the rocks, add the clay, add water and it will fracture the rocks in a non-expolsive way that is easy and cheap

Works quite well

https://www.dexpan.com/

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:40:25 AM EDT

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Slaves

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:41:31 AM EDT

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Well sure that'll work but explosives would be way more fun

Got any dimensions or anything on this so-called boulder?

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:43:24 AM EDT

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Drill holes, fill with tannerite. Size of holes will depend on your aim.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:44:43 AM EDT

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get heavy equipment

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:45:11 AM EDT

[#21]

Hire some Icelanders.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:50:19 AM EDT

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Learn to love boulders where they lie.

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:52:13 AM EDT

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Jedi

Posted: 12/17/2020 12:52:14 AM EDT

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Posted: 12/17/2020 12:52:31 AM EDT

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Tell your local crackheads that there is copper pipe under it.

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:08:02 AM EDT

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Need a better idea of just how big we are talking.

One method is to excavate around the boulder to allow you to place a sled/trailer/logs under one side. Then use gravity and some levers to help you roll the boulder onto what you are going to use to move it. The down side is you run the risk of the boulder shifting and rolling on top of you. Worked well when you had extra slaves and didn't have worker comp claims.

At some point you have to weigh the cost to hire someone with the equipment vs. what a serious injury will run you.

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:09:04 AM EDT

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Sound. Don't ask me how.

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:10:03 AM EDT

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You mean the Jews?

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:20:25 AM EDT

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Turn one big rock into more smaller rocks.

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:26:20 AM EDT

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A few thousand Jewish slaves...

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:27:42 AM EDT

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Go to home depot and get some 'messicans.

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:29:29 AM EDT

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^^^ this.

We made a rock gurney out of a sheet of 1” plywood with 3 4x4’s as handles. Each end and middle.
Room for 2 “workers” on each handle section sticking out past the edge of the plywood.

The guys could lift and move about #600 max. Had them carry out of the bush to the road for pick up with a trailer. We did get them to set in place one that was roughly #1400 but they had to use logs, rope and an A frame. Most of the rocks were under #300.

Things become exponentially problematic over #1000.

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:30:37 AM EDT

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You think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:32:45 AM EDT

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Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe.

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:41:27 AM EDT

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Blow them the fuck up and make smaller rocks

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:42:43 AM EDT

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Lol they get the warfare now. No Home Depot messicans here.

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:45:45 AM EDT

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Posted: 12/17/2020 1:47:29 AM EDT

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All great suggestions.

But you bought 40 acres and your biggest concern is moving rocks around?
What are your plans for the acreage?
Why not get a small tractor with a loader...
Are you going to maintain pasture in the summer?
What's the plan to handle managing 40 acres in anything other than native growth without some measure of equipment?

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:48:52 AM EDT

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Hitch a team of Mexicans to pull it

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:49:04 AM EDT

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Tell the fatf that you buried some 80% buy build shoot kits and pistol braces underneath them.

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:49:45 AM EDT

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Golden gauntlets

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:52:11 AM EDT

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Sorry I’m poor and hate paying others for things I can do even if it takes me 10x longer.

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No shame. Contrary to popular belief, most of us here have more time than money. A lot more time than money.

Sounds like you need a truck, a few 2X8's, and tow strap. Pics would be nice BTW.

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:52:54 AM EDT

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https://idealblasting.com/microblaster/

Posted: 12/17/2020 1:54:46 AM EDT

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Clint Eastwood got Jaws to smash one with a sledgehammer

Posted: 12/17/2020 2:02:44 AM EDT

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Look up the flip flop rope winch. Perfect situation to use it.

Posted: 12/17/2020 2:06:32 AM EDT

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Trinitrotoluene

Posted: 12/17/2020 2:26:54 AM EDT

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I moved a couple of 36" boulders with my pickup and a tow strap. If I had to move several, I'd rent a trac-loader w/forks. My local equipment rental place delivers and picks-up their equipment.
Land maintenance can be hard, expensive work. Sometimes the necessary tools and equipment can cost more that the land did, not to mention the time and labor. I'm thinking of hiring a "forest mulcher" to clean up some land that I own.