Need Advice to Retrieve Rocks from Bottom of Hill

mrcaptainbob · Sep 5, 2004

It was a bit of a project, but I made a 3'x3' perimeter for the chain 'bag'. The smaller squares were spaced every 6". So there were 10 left and right, 10 top/bottom. The center two were longer than the perimeters by a foot, while the rest were longer by 6". Attached to the four corners are 4' lengths of chain. So the whole thing looks like a basket. Just scoop one side on the far bottom of the rock/boulder, attach all four corner lengths to a common chain loop and haul away. The basket scootches under the rock and no amount of rolling will let it out. Also makes for a great sling to dangle from the BH.

RCannon · Sep 9, 2004

Don't know if this will help...

Wife decided she "needed" some boulders for landscaping. Some 100 lbs and up!!
The farmer across the road gave me an old piece of tin siding about 10 feet long with a 4X4 bolted on the one end and one side. At the front was a metal bar attached to the siding and a hole cut out with a chain looped through the hole. Hooked it up to the Yamaha and rolled the boulders on the "stone boat!" and slid them across the lawn... have since moved balled trees, larger boulders and even did a little surfing !! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
The 4X4's stop the rocks from rolling off.