Trees, Rocks, and a BX22

[GerardC]

<font color="blue"> .....the bucket might not lift them to put them into my dump truck for the trip the "rock hole". </font>

Any chance of trying to drag them to their final resting place? G

 

[Egon]

Danny:

I've got lots for free. Just come and pick.

Egon

 

[DougM]

Place rocks at the start of the drive way...
Paint them burnt orange and paint ur name on them
this way every one will know where ur at. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

DougM

 

[tennis]

WONDERFUL!!!! Gives me hope it can handle rocks from the "GRANITE STATE" as well!!!!

 

[johnw]

Danny, I also have a pile of rocks that you can have. It is as big as my truck. that's why they call New Hampshire the granite state. Not the best top soil in the world but plenty of rocks.

 

[Poppa]

So, I 've heard the term a few times here at TBN and it has me baffled. Since I am trained geologist, I am finding this a little more than embarrassing. The only thing that makes me feel better is that when I see the term, it is usually from some easterner and I have never been east of Shiner TX.

What is "Ledge" ?

Whatever it is, it appears to be extremely hard and capable of making a grown man and his tractor cry. Not to mention change the plans they had.

Mike

 

[JerryG]

Junkman,
Use the rocks in your landscaping.

 

[Jim_Becker]

Junkman, I agree with you. While you can't necessarily lift large things, with a little thought, you can move them. For many of us, the BX has everything we need Think the process through and in most cases, you can do the job. In the odd chance that it's truely more than the small machine can handle...you can rent something bigger since you already know how to drive the thang!

Thanks for the pictorial. It was very useful.

 

[Junkman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( What is "Ledge" ?

Whatever it is, it appears to be extremely hard and capable of making a grown man and his tractor cry. Not to mention change the plans they had.

Mike )</font>

Ledge is large outcroppings of rocks that are so huge and so big that it is impossible to move them in one piece with any piece of equipment known to modern man. When road builders encounter it, they drill and blast to move it. It doesn't move at the base when it is blasted. I don't know of anyone that has ever been able to get to the base of "ledge", because it is like a iceberg. What you see on the top is only a small fraction of the total. When I built my home, there was a small pinnacle of ledge that stood 4' high and was about 12" round at the base. A D-11 bulldozer was unable to break it off! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif We moved the location of the house to get around it.
You are correct that it isn't the proper geological term for it, but I have no idea what a geologist would call it either. Around here, we just call ledge a problem....
In this first picture, I will call this the "face" of the ledge. Many of the rocks that I have dug out, appear to be pieces of "ledge" that have been broken off possibly when the glaciers moved through this area millions of years ago.

 

[Junkman]

Here is a side view of the same piece..