I love a challenge................

[metalcaster]

I like your canopy, is that a Mahindra option?

 

[oldpilgrim]

I like your canopy, is that a Mahindra option?

negative.... RhinoHide Tractor & Mower canopies

well made and tough as ****....oops, make that heck.

 

[oldpilgrim]

Quote Originally Posted by Billrog View Post
Wrap a chain around it and roll it out by pulling with your tractor then you may be able to push it around.


You're talking about the barn, right?

yeah, I've got just a good a chance of moving the barn...probably weight about the same.

 

[RedNeckRacin]

Get r done! Im curious how much jack hammering that rock is going to take though! Any idea what type it is?

 

[oldpilgrim]

nope have no idea what kind...other than the heavy hard kind.

 

[pohorsky]

I was recalling, out here PG&E (local utility company) drills holes and use expanding grout. Might be easier on the old pilgrim body.

 

[Garandman]

NES rock shoot? :laughing:

Here's a New England joke. A tourist pulls up and sees a farmer stacking rocks on a wall.

"How'd all those rocks get there?"
"Glacier brought 'em."
"Oh - really? Then where's the glacier now?"
"Went back to get more rocks."

 

[oldpilgrim]

I was thinking drilling some holes and stuffing some blackpowder in them !

 

[Billrog]

When I was building here there were a few rocks like that in the middle of the drive way and bed rock where I wanted to pour footings. I hired a dynamite guy and we had fun for 3 days drilling holes and blowing things up.

 

[oldpilgrim]

Well, the challenge is over... I sorta won the battle but lost the war.

I rented a jackhammer today and my brother and I went at it for about 6 hours. It was all the two of us could handle in the 80+ temp... and me being 69 and him 67, it took a quite a bit out of these tired old bodies.

We discovered that the rock is granite, and VERY hard. We managed to chip about 8 inches off the top before we called it quits. My brother wanted to continue, saying we can do it if we just keep trying...and take enough time. Being 2 years younger than me he hasn't fully grasped the concept of gaining wisdom with age and enough is enough. Oh, to be young again. And he wasn't paying the $75/day rent for the hammer either.

This gets the rock so that it's just below the surface of the drive way and basically satisfies my needs.

I filled in the hole and the ramp I made, but someone must have snuck in over night and stolen about a truckload of dirt as there isn't enough to fill everything back up to the levels it was before.

I never heard the truck or the loader, though.

So I won the battle. Maybe if I'd done it 20 years ago when I was a bit younger, I'd have won the war.