Need to move an 800+ pound concrete slab.

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I think I'd start by taking a hand shovel and easing the ground on the side where you want to pull towards so the slab isn't bound up by the dirt. You could probably get a long 4 or 5' metal pry bar under it to help get it freed up. Then set the 2x4s to skid on.

Then I'd try wrapping a chain around the edge to see if I could drag it with the drawbar. I don't know how strong a metal cable you have, but I wouldn't want it to snap on you.

The difficulty of getting the slab sliding depends on how relatively flat the bottom of the slab is and how much it has settled in the ground.

If you go at it with the FEL, you might snap a corner off the slab.

I did this, and I was very very proud of myself that I did it all by myself, and that it worked.
I have a terrible memory I thought I did this absolutely in the middle of winter when the ground was frozen. I thought I dragged the slabs a across completely frozen ground, apparently I’m wrong! I can’t even remember if I used the bucket to lift them! I thought The hydraulic squealed when I tried to pick One side of the slab up with the bucket, I thought that I used a bottle jack to lift it up to get the chain under it so I could drag it. I know for sure I used a bottle jack to lift them up high enough to get them over the edge of the asphalt because I remember one time it fell and it’s very surprisingly huge puff of air came out from under the slab when it went landed. I’m pretty sure I slid them along a pipe that I laid perpendicular to the slab so that it wouldn’t gouge the asphalt. I might’ve used pipes to roll them across the asphalt so I wouldn’t gouge the asphalt. I think I must’ve lifted one edge with the bucket with the chains that are in the photo and drag them about 250 feet to a new location where I thought I could use them instead of smashing them up and hauling them off and then I neatly arranged them as they were but I never got around to finishing that project. I know I can push them with the tractor and the bucket but I can’t remember if I can pick them up. I mean I know for sure I can’t pick them up outright, they are way too heavy for me to pick them up with the B 2150 that I have. I made a set of forklift forks for the three point hitch but I don’t think that’s strong enough I’m almost positive that is not strong enough to even start to budge these. I removed a sidewalk and I needed a diamond saw to saw the 34 wide side walk into about maximum 6 foot length and even then my three-point hitch was squealing when I picked them up.
I would say absolutely hundred percent move them and place them as you have planned even if it doesn’t work out perfectly.
My concept was to make a like a volcanic cone of gravel and then deposit the slab and wiggle the slab from side to side to make the cone flatten and accommodate the rough under surface of the slab and try as best I could to get it to sit nice and even and fully supported.
Good luck to you! It’s a blast when you could pull off a difficult project successfully that you’ve conceived from beginning to end.

 

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I did this, and I was very very proud of myself that I did it all by myself, and that it worked.
I have a terrible memory I thought I did this absolutely in the middle of winter when the ground was frozen. I thought I dragged the slabs a across completely frozen ground, apparently I’m wrong! I can’t even remember if I used the bucket to lift them! I thought The hydraulic squealed when I tried to pick One side of the slab up with the bucket, I thought that I used a bottle jack to lift it up to get the chain under it so I could drag it. I know for sure I used a bottle jack to lift them up high enough to get them over the edge of the asphalt because I remember one time it fell and it’s very surprisingly huge puff of air came out from under the slab when it went landed. I’m pretty sure I slid them along a pipe that I laid perpendicular to the slab so that it wouldn’t gouge the asphalt. I might’ve used pipes to roll them across the asphalt so I wouldn’t gouge the asphalt. I think I must’ve lifted one edge with the bucket with the chains that are in the photo and drag them about 250 feet to a new location where I thought I could use them instead of smashing them up and hauling them off and then I neatly arranged them as they were but I never got around to finishing that project. I know I can push them with the tractor and the bucket but I can’t remember if I can pick them up. I mean I know for sure I can’t pick them up outright, they are way too heavy for me to pick them up with the B 2150 that I have. I made a set of forklift forks for the three point hitch but I don’t think that’s strong enough I’m almost positive that is not strong enough to even start to budge these. I removed a sidewalk and I needed a diamond saw to saw the 34 wide side walk into about maximum 6 foot length and even then my three-point hitch was squealing when I picked them up.
I would say absolutely hundred percent move them and place them as you have planned even if it doesn’t work out perfectly.
My concept was to make a like a volcanic cone of gravel and then deposit the slab and wiggle the slab from side to side to make the cone flatten and accommodate the rough under surface of the slab and try as best I could to get it to sit nice and even and fully supported.
Good luck to you! It’s a blast when you could pull off a difficult project successfully that you’ve conceived from beginning to end.

Sorry for such a long reply! I forgot to say I wanted to say my brother poured that skirt and it subsided about 6 inches (I had to make a tiny little ramps out of laminated treated wedges for my mother to get her car in and out of the garage) and I thought rather than mess around trying to pour a wedge of concrete on top of it, and rather than try to lift it with foam which I didn’t wanna pay some guy to do and I think you need a lot of finesse to do it right I thought it would be easiest to remove the slab and pour a new slab after filling and compacting gravel. I didn’t want to dispose of the slabs that I thought that I could use somewhere else on the property.