Let's ROCK..[Where is the rock capital?]

johnk · Aug 26, 2004

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And another Tooth bar or D12 dozer won't help you here...........

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fishman · Aug 27, 2004

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That's it, I give up, you win! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

johnk · Aug 27, 2004

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You gave up too easy. Heres another. I tried the box scraper but the front tires came off the ground.......................Don't understand it>>>>>>>>>>

wroughtn_harv · Aug 28, 2004

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The limestone is a bugger bear for putting in fence posts. But I've got an eight inch auger that treats it like a good auger treats hard clay, nothing but a thing. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The way we set posts in country like Johnk's is we use a diesel air compressor and a rock drill. We drill a hole a little bigger in diameter than the post one and a half times the diameter in depth. We set the post with a hydraulic cement like QuikRok.

But the absolute worst conditions for setting fence posts is sand and pebbles in combination. We found this at the foothills in southern Califiornia at the edge of the valleys.

A conventional posthole auger will bounce around and out of line. If you do get it to go down the walls cave in.

So the way it worked then, thirty years ago, and I don't see how it could have changed much, was posthole diggers and water. Water to pack the sand and the hand diggers to pick out the stones one at a time. It was a bugger bear only a bugger bear mother could love. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Bird · Aug 28, 2004

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( Water to pack the sand )

Harv, when I was doing gas leakage surveys, we used a 5/8" steel rod, slide hammer type gadget to punch holes in the ground, sometimes through asphalt paving, then a fiberglass tube connected with rubber tubing to a combustible gas indicator. You draw, or pump the gas through the instrument with a squeeze bulb, and in sand, as you said, the sides cave in and you'll just suck sand into that fiberglass tube. So the small amounts of water to pack the sand is what you do in that case. I got a bit of experience with it in West Texas. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

wroughtn_harv · Aug 28, 2004

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I don't know if you've ever been to a place like Palm Springs California. It's sugar sand. So to dig holes you carry a five gallon bucket of water and wet the hole as you go down. And you don't wait too long before setting the post and you almost tip toe around the hole until the concrete is in. Used to love working there. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

txdon · Oct 31, 2004

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 "..so let's see pics of those rocks!"


I'm only 2 months late. Here is my rock it was sticking one foot out of the sugar sand so I dug around it. took me a couple of months.

txdon · Oct 31, 2004

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Yep, there is a tractor behind that rock. Can't move it. Guess I'll cover it up. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Tdog · Oct 31, 2004

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I'm in the same boat as OkeeDon, except around here it is clay, not sand. I was raised in central Texas & when I bought my 1st house in New Orleans after I was married, I remember going out to the back yard to find some rocks to put in the bottom of a potted plant. Surprise - - Nada. No rocks here at all. Guess that's the result of the way the Mississippi delta was formed.