Decided to dig up some rocks

[B7800mike]

Dug up this small rock today. Had to move it for the pool. Also put some pics of my tractor. The rock took about 3 to 4 hrs to get out. Now to fill and level to put the pool in. Got to love the tractor

 

[The Saint]

Nice!

How did you get the rock out of the hole? Drag it along with the BH? I have the same BH as you on a B3030. One of the first tasks when I got the tractor this spring was to remove some rocks from the yard that had been bothering me for years. Living in the SE part of the state, there is no shortage of them...

Jim

 

[RayCo]

My father-in-law has a Case 580, and he recently built a rock wall with rocks that appear to be about that size. He was not able to lift the largest rocks with his loader and was only able to move them by chaining them up to the backhoe and filling the loader with counterweight. And even then, it was a struggle. So, to ask the same question as The Saint, how the heck did you actually extract the thing? Is there a crane behind the camera?

 

[B7800mike]

I dig the hole and sloped one side and pulled with the backhoe up the slope little at a time. The mud gave me some issues. The backhoe could not lift it at all but could turn it . No crane but i wish i had one

 

[m7040]

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/94181-big-rock.html

Here is a link to the rock that I dug up with the loader on the M7040

 

[ChuckinNH]

That is some good work with your B7800 Mike! We sure do have plenty of those non melting icebergs around here! I found that if I could turn a rock, but not lift it, sometimes I could turn it, put some dirt where it was, turn it back, and repeat with the other side of the rock until it was sitting on the surface. That seemed to place little stress on my tractor, and usually worked. Trouble is that sometimes I could get rocks on the surface that I couldn't move, or even roll that way...... Duh!

 

[Ranger Rick]

I found that if I could turn a rock, but not lift it, sometimes I could turn it, put some dirt where it was, turn it back, and repeat with the other side of the rock until it was sitting on the surface. That seemed to place little stress on my tractor, and usually worked. Trouble is that sometimes I could get rocks on the surface that I couldn't move, or even roll that way...... Duh!

When you get enough large rocks to the surface you can then go to your CFO and say you need a larger tractor to get rid of all of the rocks you dug up.
Just a thought.
Ranger Rick

 

[ChuckinNH]

Well, I don't have a CFO, but the BX is gone, and I have looked at larger tractors.

 

[bandit67]

Yeah, but probably not large enough.

 

[ChuckinNH]

Why just Sunday I was sitting on an L2800, an L3400, a B3030, and a B7800. Good view from up there.