Dentist needed

[getut]

I have a new invention idea... a FEL with shock absorbers. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

I spent 4-5 hours digging around my horse barn yesterday trying redo some drainage. I kept meeting up with a huge immovable rock with the FEL. I never hit it with very much speed, never more than 1/4 pedal on the hydro in low range, but man did that knock me loopy when I did hit it. I probed around with the FEL and never did find the edge of the huge rock. I probed about 12 ft in diameter and never quite got to an "edge" it just got deeper than I needed to worry about for my drainage issue. Part of that diameter is actually inside the barn. The rock was very coarse... very hard if hit just right, but I once I discovered that the rock had a "grain" to it, I was able to splinter enough chunks of it off to get the area took down at least close to what I was planning for when I started. Man is my back tore up today though.

I had taken Monday-Wednesday off for vacation, glad to be back at work to rest my back. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[LarryD]

My neighbor had a similar situation. A rock in the middle of the yard that was just high enough to interfer with his mowing. We started digging and at about the 5' diameter exposed, the thing continued in a lateral direction /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif.
That thing was like an iceberg, he just jackhammered 6" off the top and called her good.

 

[MadDog]

I had one of those, too. A ridge about 14" long by 3" wide was protruding about 3-4": just high enough to interfere with mowing. So I figured I'd dig it out with the FEL (w/toothbar). ... Probed around it from every angle and couldn't get any suggestion of it budging. Moreover, it seemed to get larger in every direction immediately below ground level. At that point, I figured I'd dig it out with the BH with no difficulty.

...After about 1 1/2 hours of BH work I did get it out, at last; it was about 5' long x (on average) 2'x3'. What was sticking out of the lawn wasn't even the "tip of the iceberg" it was more like the penguin chick standing on top of that! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif At times I wondered whether I had exposed an edge of the North American tectonic plate! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Must have weighed well over 1000#. I know because my FEL could only raise it about 3" while I lugged it off to another resting place.

....just goes to show, predicting the size of partially exposed rocks is like figuring out what SWMBO means when you tell her you want to go to a Redsox game with your bowling buddies and she says "It's okay; I don't mind."

....you'll find out, but it will be too late!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif