digging rocks at The C Farm

[21incher]

Good luck with your rock removal project. I had a friend that had a field like that he just got a guy with a backhoe to take a couple of scoops next to each one and rolled them in the hole and put the dirt back on top so they were a couple of feet down. You can get rid of some big ones like that with no lifting.

[thecfarm]

21incher.yea right. His field is not like mine.lucky him.    Some of mine are 3 feet across. Need a five foot hole to bury it 2 feet below grade. Guess what I would fine digging? more boulders.  :  That is also why I don't dig the stumps out. All that I would find is more rocks and boulders.

[Ljohnsaw]

My property has a few rocks, too.  I had to move some "peeker" out of the way only to find some monsters...


 
The biggest being about 6' x 5' x 4'...


 
Not sure what I'm going to do with them, maybe just roll them down the hill...

[beenthere]

ljohn
Those look like they came from my yard... sure you were not doing some midnight requisitioning?   ;D

I started putting mine in a rock wall. Not easy with just a bucket and some to large to lift.

[thecfarm]

I am building a road across a bog. The bigger the better.  ;D  The road has been there long before I was thought of. There use to be fields across the bog.  But my bigger is not all that big with just a 40hp tractor and one rock,boulder at a time. Than I take some smaller ones and fill in between the big ones. If I can't pick  them up,than I take out the smaller ones out of the wall and make room for the bigger one.

[pineywoods]

Ray, if you just keep on digging out rocks, leaving the hole and piling the rocks, sooner or later you will have one of them highly valuable mountain lake front properties  ;D

[thecfarm]

I all ready have the pond. The pond is where I've been digging to fill in the rock holes.  :

[21incher]

Around here I have seen where they sandblast your house number in large rocks and set them in the corner of your driveway for about $500.00. They may be more valuable then slabs  8)

[thecfarm]

Bring on the sandblasters.  ;D

[Magicman]

I feel for you guys.  No rocks here and a 15' deep creek  has a clay bottom.  There is not even gravel in the bottom.

[thecfarm]

Don't feel too bad. I have many soft spots up in the woods that are not soft anymore.  ;D  A few bucket full of rocks will tighten up any wet hole. Well more than a few sometimes.  ;D

[thecfarm]

2 rocks,boulders and an old yard stick.



 



 

These are both gone. I did find a couple more too.  :

[Mooseherder]

Rock mining has been good to you!