Holly cow....

[YanmarFever]

I told you all that METEOR was coming !!!

Maybe next time you'll listen /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[ByronBob]

I'm loading the 2230 up today. I'll be out there by Saturday to give them a hand with that pebble.

 

[LBrown59]

I've got to many other project scheduled for mine so I'm having to let little ones like this ride for now.

 

[bky]

Wow!
Looks like it might be easier to move the train tracks and the road... <font color="red"> </font> <font color="red"> </font>




also move the wires in the road /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[DKinWA]

Anyone want to hazard a guess what this baby weighs?? I know when they were working on the westport jetty, they were hauling single rocks on lowboys and they weren't near this big. It wouldn't surprise if that boulder weighs 200,000 pounds. Public works will probably have to blast it into smaller pieces just so they can move it. I'm glad to see it didn't become a hood ornament in the process.

 

[Taylortractornut]

I had one about that size on a job to chip away in Alabama. We called a blaster but his drill wasnt intown so I put thehoeram on the 300 Komatsu excavator and dug at it. I had a WA250 IT Toolcarrier loader made by Komatsu with a 3 yard bucketand a set of forks there to clean up the chips. Talk about fun. Id hammer off at the big edges till I could get them all broken doen in sharp corners. THen take the loader and get all my spoil and ramp it up and walk the excavator up it a few feet higher. Then chhip goind down. I chipped them up intoroughly 4x5 blocks to handle with the loader. About 8 hours I had it all hauled off. The best thing to do in that rocks situation is to take a rock drill and drill a few holes in it on a diagonal angle and try to spilt it with explosives where a hoe ram would be able to reach it at ground level.

 

[riptides]

I saw some engineers explode it last night. Looked like on big rock and a gazillion little ones after. So I don't know if they tried again. I would assume they did, because it sure looked pretty big, but with a huge pile of rubble next to it.

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[sassafraspete]

When I moved my daughter out to lake tahoe 2 yrs ago after new yrs day, there was a story in the paper about a big boulder that came down onto highway 50 and crushed a small car , killing the driver. The guy lived in Reno and commuted to south lake tahoe and worked there as a butcher for a grocery store. He had been on extended sick leave, and was back to work his first day.....then traveling home that night gets killed by this boulder. That one freaked me out.

 

[GRUB]

25 foot diameter = radius 12.5 feet
Volume sphere (4/3)(pie)(r)3
or 12.5 x 12.5 x 12.5 x 3.1415... x 4/3 = 8,181 cubic feet
@ 150 Lbs/ Cubic feet = 1,227,148 lbs

 

[Junkman]

8,181 cubic feet divided by 27 = 303 cubic yards of material. Just enough for me to make another road into my place. My BX could handle all that in just a little over 400 hours.
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