Rock Harvesting

[Jibber]

Yeah, I thought about that too!

Neighbors of my in-laws in Ohio paid a fortune for a "decorative" rock about 3 feet in diameter. Shoot, I could make a fortune with the rocks I have around here. I have some that will never go anywhere, one the size of a BUS in the woods behind the house.

My property is criss-crossed with rock walls built by Dutch farmers in the 1600's. I also have a stone chamber on my property that was apparently used as a root cellar (although there are those who think these things were some sort of Druid ceremonial chambers). You can stand up inside of it, like a huge rock igloo built into the hillside. I constantly wonder how these people managed to farm this land and move all these rocks around.

Strong backs and an OX if you could get one!

 

[SPIKER]

Ya, here in Ohio, there are lots of rocks to buy. most of them are not cheap either, we have lots of dirt clay and such but mostly the rock is sand stone shale type stuff that is not good for walls or such. lots of small fist sized stuff too but it is had to build a wall with them. I have some nice big bolders in my creek bed have bene removbing moving them but it takes a lot ot digging & pushing for most of them as there are pretty big, maybe 2 per pickup and no more other wise a 1/2 ton would be over loaded ... anyhow got to get soem rose of sharron bushes that my mom had, my bro dug them up today... moving them to my farm. most of them are family plantings and can be traced bakc 50~ plus years.

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[rockquarry]

I have hundreds of limestone rocks that size in my rock pile that were excavated from where my house now sits.

for those of you that are curious I found this one the web, it list the weight of just about anything by cubic foot (limestone, granite, gravel ect) so now you can judge how much that rock weighs by measuring it and looking it up on the list. If you know what kind of rock that is.

http://www.reade.com/Particle_Briefings/spec_gra2.html

 

[JDgreen227]

Thanks for the information, I did a lot of fieldstone moving with my JD loader during the weekend, I was getting curious about how much some of them weighed. We have thousands of fieldstones of all sizes on our property, the people who originally farmed the land piled them up in the lane and when we had a new basement for an addition excavated in mid-2001---guess what was underground? The fieldstone foundation of a huge old two story house that burnt down in late 1948. It's a good thing I like rocks.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Jibber]

Wow, great site.

well, I guess I'm glad I got the bigger loader and backhoe for the Kubota!

 

[raynman]

rockquarry,

Thanks for the info, JDGreen227 and I were talking about finding a site like this just the other day.

Thanks /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif