Rock is too big

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This is a job at my daughter's house that was going well until I hit this rock which was just a little bitty thing when a tooth scraped into it. I had to dig around the rock to budge it. No matter how I tried, the bucket would not even curl this thing. I am doubting if anyone makes a tractor in the 25-32 hp range that would of picked up his stone. If granite weighs 200# per cu. ft. I estimate this stone at 1400-1600 Ibs. If I didn't roll it , it was going no where.
The last picture shows the completed job that without teeth, wasn't happening.

 

[EX3200]

I guess the other option would have been to dig next to it & try to bury it.

I was looking at the pictures & thinking that it looks a lot like my native Rhode Island.

 

[ragkar]

You can bury it or roll it somewhere and paint it white.

 

[Rara Avis]

Push it around to the front of the property and put your house number on it...

 

[Egon]

My toy tractor would have been able to dig around it but there it would have stayed. There is one just like it in the access road to the play farm. I got it dug out but that was all and had to bury it again. It's now about 2 inches out of the ground and does not present a problem.

My other option would have been the impact hammer drill followed by feathers and wedges.

Those are nice looking chains on your tractor. It's appears you leave them on year round?

 

[wkpoor]

Looks like your digging in sand.
That would have made a nice load for my root grapple on the 5400.
I need to do one of those handy walls myself sometime this summer. Looks like you have your work cut out there. LOLOLOL

 

[tuolumne]

Next time try whipping together a rock boat to drag the stone instead of rolling it. This would likely incur less damage on the lawn. An old piece of metal roofing works great.

 

[crk133]

you could use some forks on th 3pt that would probably get it out of there....

 

[dillo99]

Rock boats are great - and you can move very large rocks. I use an old car hood.

 

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This rock was so heavy, unless the sledge or boat had wheels, this thing prevented my tractor from going anywhere unless I rolled it. When I got a bite on it and attempted to push it, I'd go 3 ft and stop, wheels spinning. Forks on the 3 pt seems like an interesting notion. I do wonder if even this method would of worked. I have to look up the capacity of this tractors 3 pt. This job had an interesting strata of clay, gravel and then sand with about 1000 other rocks ranging from bushel size to softball size. I wish I had the 5400 for even 15 minutes. I'm sure it would of made this job alot easier. The teeth worked great for picking out all of these stones. If I didn't reinforce the cheap JD materials bucket, this job would of ripped the bucket to pieces