Need ideas to build a "stone boat"

   / Need ideas to build a "stone boat" #51  
"Any place the wind blows much.........." Look at the last picture I posted. It shows the cleared meadow. Click to enlarge. See the T-133 fence posts for my barbed wire fence. They all lean to the left ( towards the NE ). The prevailing wind, which is almost constant and can be very strong and even violent comes out of the SW. I thought, for the longest time, that it had something to do with the neighbors cows. That was until I saw many of the barbed wire fences on adjoining properties. They lean toward the NE also.

Canadian thistle( tumble weeds ) will pile against the fence until it's almost invisible. Then it will REALLY blow and over the fence they go. On their way back to Canada.

Canada Thistle isn't a tumble weed...that's Russian Thistle.

Canada Thistle:
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Russian Thistle:
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   / Need ideas to build a "stone boat" #52  
Thanks Mace. I know it can blow HARD here but - rip out Canadian Thistle - I think not. Yea - it's Russian Thistle. I have a small amount of the Canadian Thistle here and there on the 80. The Russian Thistle - not a bit. It blows in from somewhere down SW. Strange - the Russian Thistle has never taken hold here on the 80.
 
   / Need ideas to build a "stone boat" #53  
Rock Boat!!?? I don't need no stinkin' rock boat!!

This rock weighs over 3,000 pounds (guess), my 2,500 pound capacity loader would not lift it until I dropped the bucket,,,

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This one is sitting next to a 14" car tire for size comparison,,,
It probably weighs ~2,000 pounds,,,

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I moved those, and about a dozen 400-600 pound rocks earlier this week,,
they were "poking" up where the flail mower could find them,,
When it stops raining, I will fill the holes, and seed the spots,,
 
   / Need ideas to build a "stone boat" #54  
That rock in the top picture - almost perfect shape for chained pick up. But I've heard that like a rotary mower - those rocks just sharpen the blades on a flail. If that "bottom" rock is truly round and was around these parts - better part of 4000 pounds. Too much for my grapple - if 4K# - I'd have to "rope" it and drag.

You grow some healthy rocks there in VA - CADplans.
 
   / Need ideas to build a "stone boat" #55  
You grow some healthy rocks there in VA - CADplans.

Those two are tiny compared to the rock at my driveway entrance,,

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(yes, that is a real backhoe bucket,,)

A Kobelco excavator dug that one out of my driveway a year ago,,

It has a nice "flat bottom" that made it easy to set,,

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The Kobelco just picked it up with the bucket and thumb,, and walked it down to the entrance,,

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   / Need ideas to build a "stone boat" #56  
I have ONE rock - in my high meadow - that would match yours. Otherwise - big here, is basketball size. Top picture - below the "5" - lying there on the rock. Some kind of container - what is it?? That beautiful big rock behind the "65" - sandstone??
 
   / Need ideas to build a "stone boat" #57  
I have ONE rock - in my high meadow - that would match yours. Otherwise - big here, is basketball size. Top picture - below the "5" - lying there on the rock. Some kind of container - what is it?? That beautiful big rock behind the "65" - sandstone??

Yea, probably,, we have some other type of stone it is like a hard chalk,, snow white,, I have a bunch of that,, but, most are too big to move.
I have LOTS of limestone, also,, there is a cement plant just down the road a ways,,,
 
   / Need ideas to build a "stone boat" #58  
below the "5" - lying there on the rock. Some kind of container - what is it??

That is a solar light,, charges during the day, shines all night 'til morning,,
 
   / Need ideas to build a "stone boat" #59  
Had a old stone boat back in the 60’s that my grandpa had made out of 4x4 runners and mill cut 2x6’s, it hauled a lot of dirt, rock in its day, we also used to stand on it and surf..Imagination..A piece of equipment that also served as a form of entertainment for us kids.



Jim.
 
   / Need ideas to build a "stone boat" #60  
How do you use a stone boat,, when the rock weighs over 7,500 pounds,, and it is in a hole,,??

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That stone is over 5X5 feet square,, and 28 to 34 inches thick.
 

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