How Hard Can a Tractor Pull?

[wolc123]

Come-alongs are very very slow to use!

Try getting some pulleys, you can then double/quadruple etc your pulling power very easily. (If you have a strong nearby tree to use as the fixed point).

That is what I do when I need to pull something real heavy with my largest tractor (JD 4120 with loaded R1 tires). One snatch block, a big tree, and some 1/2” wire rope can work wonders.

I resently pulled down a big old timber framed barn, that my great great grandad built in 1883,

like it was made of toothpicks and those are 9” and 11” square hand-hewn beams.

 

[tacticalturnip]

No comment without a pic of the rock and how you were pulling on the rock. Suspect you didn't know how, and my clue is in the subject line.

So instead of offering any actual advice, you just politely call OP an idiot and called it a day?

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

No comment without a pic of the rock and how you were pulling on the rock. Suspect you didn't know how, and my clue is in the subject line.

That's a comment, and a pretty useless one.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

You should take some hi-rez pics of that "rock" and correspond with a local University Geology Professor. Maybe send a sample. That rock doesn't look like anything normal for Florida. It might be a mineral replacement, fossil, of some sort of large organic original. To me, this does look organic in shape.

In my area, these rocks are all over. If you look at them closely, part appears to be limestone, and part seems more like flint. The flinty parts chip like glass. I think these rocks are called chert, but that's a guess based on Googling.

 

[arrow]

Man I used to sculpt in marble and limestone. That piece already has the look of a prone leopard in my mind. Would just have to remove all the stone that doesn't look like a leopard.

 

[Moxie 15]

for Florida that is a huge rock, for New Hampshire it is a stone. 2 ton Comalongs will be nearly useless. Easiest way I have found to move large rocks without a backhoe is a rock sledge, or some say sled.
Get an old pick up hood, using bars, chains, whatever you may have, roll the rock on the hood and pull the hood with your tractor.

 

[Raul-02]

I tried to pull a big rock out of my yard with my Kubota L3710 and got nowhere. Today it occurred to me that I should think about getting a come-along.

If you have the room, and a fulcrum (a nearby big tree?), and a long oak beam and some chain or steel cable can multiply your power enormously.
Alternately if you can lift a corner you can maybe put a roller under it and lessen the friction.
Mud also lessens friction.
you can crack it into pieces with a hammer drill ( a real one you might have to rent it) and some steel wedges and a 5 pound mallet

 

[Egon]

In my area, these rocks are all over. If you look at them closely, part appears to be limestone, and part seems more like flint. The flinty parts chip like glass. I think these rocks are called chert, but that's a guess based on Googling.

Maybe calcite deposited in the limestone.

 

[Egon]

That's a comment, and a pretty useless one.

It’s actually a very good reply based on original information given.

 

[Bsavulis]

If you have the room, and a fulcrum (a nearby big tree?), and a long oak beam and some chain or steel cable can multiply your power enormously.
Alternately if you can lift a corner you can maybe put a roller under it and lessen the friction.
Mud also lessens friction.
you can crack it into pieces with a hammer drill ( a real one you might have to rent it) and some steel wedges and a 5 pound mallet

I have moved a number of rocks that size and much larger with an old 3/8 winch cable, a couple of chains, and snatch blocks from harbor freight. By running the cable through a number of the pulley blocks, you multiply your pulling power.
Check out this video

Also I use my feathers and wedges on the monsters I need to make more manageable. They work sweet.