vtsnowedin
Elite Member
I'm disappointed in all of you. This is a tractor forum and we have to find a way to move that rock using a tractor.
I suppose you could mount your drill on you FEL bucket and let the tractor provide the down pressure but I expect that would be hard on the drill. Probably better to just find the biggest headache ball your tractor can lift with either the loader or the backhoe if you have one and repeatedly drop it on the rock until it breaks into pieces you can load out. An iron ball is best but a river cobble that is sounder then the rock your breaking will do.
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Just kidding actually. Lots of good advice up thread. If I could drive to it to build a road or to move the finished step away from it's parent rock I'd rent a compressor and both a sinker drill and an 80 lb. jack hammer and whittle it away in short order. The job I was on last night had a Cat 330 excavator with a demo hammer sporting a six inch diameter point to break up some blue ledge high bottom in a drainage trench and to bust up some old bridge concrete columns that are in the way. A bit much for what we are talking here but the right tool for that job. There is a lot of difference between one rock and the next. Granite though hard has a fine grain and will split on planes if the force is applied along the plane. Other rocks like West Lebanon NH blue ledge just sits there and taunts you until you apply enough force to break it into small cubes. My father was a stone polisher in Barre VT and could see the grain in a piece of granite. I never learned that trick but I've seen every method described above used successfully so it's a matter of your circumstances and budget. You might just wale away at it with a twenty pound sledge but you'd get awful tired before your done.
