Got Rocks.....

[Junkman]

close up view of the area including a better look at the size of the rocks.

 

[Junkman]

This is a picture of the beginning of the road. Believe it or not, there is pavement under all that dirt that covers the road. The sweeper will be getting a work out this weekend..

 

[hennydamule]

Nice job Junkman, hopefully you'll have some really nice quartz veins in that ledge rock when it clears.

I've got a recipe for growing moss if you ever want to speed up the "aging" process on the rock.

 

[Junkman]

This rock is 9' high out of the ground and there is about 3' of it in the ground. I haven't decided if I will put a plaque on it with our name or just the house number. Something for the wife to think about what she wants.

 

[Junkman]

I sure can use any help that I can get. Please post the recipe for moss growing here. That way, I won't loose it and others might also benefit from it. This all started out as a small project because the wife wanted some flower crab apple trees along the side of the road. Once they were planted, they looked out of place with all the pines and hemlocks in the back round. What we did find when removing a lot of the hemlock trees, is that they were already diseased and dying. I tried to keep as many of the oaks as possible, but the land had been logged before we purchased it and all of the big ones were gone... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[JayC]

Those were some pretty big rocks! I see you had a supervisor with you in a couple of those pics. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Junkman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Looks like that loader may be lifting more than it is supposed to be capable of. I'm impressed...

Then again...knowing the poster...could be that it is hollow inside or a prop from the local film company... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

That is a true rock. I was able to get it into the bucket, but it wouldn't raise. Luckily, when I scooped it, there was a few inches under the bucket already. As I was traveling down the road, I tried to lift it and to my amazement, the bucket started to come up. I got it up a few more inches, but didn't want to go flying over the steering wheel if gravity took over. The excavator that was being used had a 56" bucket and some of the rocks would barely fit into it. There was one that was so large, that we just decided that it will stay where it was place a couple of thousand years ago. Most, if not all of the rocks in the picture, probably outweigh the BX. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[hennydamule]

It's a pretty simple recipe, but it's at home, so I'll post tonight or tomorrow.

Love the Stonehenge rock pic.!!! Hope to have a sundial like that in my yard some day. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[BillG_in_TX]

We've Got Rocks in Texas, too. This is where we hope to build our house, but a few rocks may need moving first. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Mogombus]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It's a pretty simple recipe)</font>

Here in the NW we just let something sit outside for a couple months during our wet season (from Jan 1-Dec 31) and it's guaranteed to have moss growing on it!
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