Backhoe Kubota BX25 Rock Pile (just for fun)
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Artisan
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NICE ! Now go find where that quartz came from and look for the gold vein! :dollarsign::greedy:
It's amazing what these little tractors can do given a little time... I know mine continually amazes me on what it can do! :thumbsup:
Looks like the start of nice fire ring, or natural stools for the fire ring, rock fence... Hmmm, lots of ideas here!
Looks like the start of nice fire ring, or natural stools for the fire ring, rock fence... Hmmm, lots of ideas here!
Artisan
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Do you have a thumb on that BH?
CompactTractorFan
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See the picture of my rock pile I created with my BX25. The white rock on top is quartz that I wrangled out of the bush.
Haha, my quartz is bigger than yours! :laughing:
Bob77064
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Good job, I like that quartz.
CHDinCT
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Well then, those definitely aren't close up's of some pebbles - nice pic. :laughing: Is that a lake or large pond in the background I see? Nice looking area. Any particular design or purpose to the rock pile, or were you just relocating them to someplace out of the way?
creekbend
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It's the lake in the background at my cottage. The rock pile just kind of happened as I needed a quick place to dump them after digging them up from the "back 40". Quartz come out of the bush and I've been trying to get it for over 10 years, finally got it this year.
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Haha, my quartz is bigger than yours! :laughing:
When we lived in Maine I spent the better part of a long day digging out a chunk of quartz about half--3/4 the size of an old Volkswagen. Took all that I had in equipment and my 95 HP loader tractor to get it up to the house. Why, I'm not sure but it was a nice spring day. Just as I dumped it in the yard my wife yelled "get it out of here" but the ground was so soft--and the rock so heavy--that it stayed there until we left.
To my wife's disbelief, I sold it for pretty good money. I told the buyer to bring a heavy trailer but he showed up with a snowmobile trailer. I didn't want to load it but he insisted. As he was inching down the road we could see the back wheels start to splay out from the axle bending.
The quartz was great and I brought a couple 200 to 300 lb pieces of milky quartz with us when we moved just for the memories.
Proletarian
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very nice compilation. I plan to run a gas line to my back yard and build a similar structure for grilling and congregating.
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In Maine we had a big rock--size of maybe a Volkswagon or two--that sat in the middle of a field and made moldboard plowing difficult. Darned glacial till.
Anyway, I tried for 10 years to get someone with a D-9 out to move it but no one would stop. Finally, a guy down the road was blasting a basement and I asked if he could "crack it into a couple of pieces". Not sure what happened but think of the Butch Cassisdy and Sundance movie clip where they used too much dynamite to blow the safe. He for sure used way too much and I found many hundreds of pieces of rock within the blast crater. But, the rock was gone. Picked rock for two days.
Anyway, I tried for 10 years to get someone with a D-9 out to move it but no one would stop. Finally, a guy down the road was blasting a basement and I asked if he could "crack it into a couple of pieces". Not sure what happened but think of the Butch Cassisdy and Sundance movie clip where they used too much dynamite to blow the safe. He for sure used way too much and I found many hundreds of pieces of rock within the blast crater. But, the rock was gone. Picked rock for two days.
radioman
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its better in tiny pieces instead of struggling with 2 halves ... :laughing:
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RaydaKub
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Heck you can go way beyond that. At a minor electronics firm nick named Big Blue (where I work), they sold off some 200 acres of land. Then they used some of that money to fancy up the site and courtyards in between some of the buildings. They look great! But the landscape company came in and formed the rocks out of chicken wire. They are basically painted paper mache! You wouldn't know it to look at them. Until the mower threw something through the side of one and there was this big dark hole in the side of the "rock"...
