Getting ones rocks off....

[LandyAndy]

....The Road.
We are widening and sealing a 5km section of road,its always had rocks in it that we have kept having to put gravel over.
Today we started removing them.
We got several out this size,and many more half the size,plenty more to come.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2016/03/655.jpg (http://s113.photobucket.com/user/LandyAndy_2006/media/003_zpsjobvgt6s.jpg.html)

And the toy we got in for the job,its strugling,we have to dig around the rocks with our excavator and help loosen.Awesome to watch.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2016/03/659.jpg (http://s113.photobucket.com/user/LandyAndy_2006/media/002_zpsrzfiuxyp.jpg.html)

A few more days yet.
Andrew

[Rok_Dr]

That's a nice bit of granite!

It would look good behind the woolshed and also slow the traffic down :D:D:D:D

Cheers

Steve

[Mick_Marsh]

Take them home and build a rockery.

[LandyAndy]

You wouldnt belive how much the D9 struggled to move it,wouldnt have happened without Spots efforts on the digga.
Roughly what would that rock weigh Steve????? Its at least the size of 2 family cars stacked up????
Andrew

[LandyAndy]

Take them home and build a rockery.

I was going to send it to Coops via Aussie post COD:twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted:
Andrew

[V8Ian]

D9 struggling, must be a fair lump of rock. :o

[LandyAndy]

D9 struggling, must be a fair lump of rock. :o

Thats why I asked The Rock Doc for an approx weight,the dozer driver just said ****ing heavy!!!!
He snapped 2 ripper boots doing it his way,I told him Spot is very good at digging them out just needs the grunt to shift them.Contractor wanting all the honey.We are doing it my way now,Spot digs them out then they go from there.I bet ripper boots for a D9 are expensive,2 destroyed in 1 hour;);););)
Andrew

[Rok_Dr]

Let me guess....

Eyeballing the pic I reckon 3x1x1.5m wouldn't be wide of the mark, size wise. So make that 4.5 cubic m. Average specific gravity (sg) of granite is 2.6-2.7, so therefore somewhere around 12t.

Cheers

Steve

[cjc_td5]

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https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2016/03/655.jpg (http://s113.photobucket.com/user/LandyAndy_2006/media/003_zpsjobvgt6s.jpg.html)



Look at that nice little rock with the cute tonka toy behind it :D:D:D:D:D:D:p:p:p:p:p:p

The rock makes your grader look small, not the other way around :angel::angel::angel::angel:.

Got sick of hooking the grader blade on it every time you did a maintenance grade Andrew???:):):):):)

[V8Ian]

The hole will take some compacting.

[LandyAndy]

Got to build a road train rated road over them Chris,the Shire got funding to re-build and seal seal the road due to the truck movement numbers.There is a huge feedlot at the end of the job,so poo cows coming and going every day and the feed for them too.
They allowed a day for the dozer,I rekon he is here until friday,its slow going work.
Andrew

[LandyAndy]

Let me guess....

Eyeballing the pic I reckon 3x1x1.5m wouldn't be wide of the mark, size wise. So make that 4.5 cubic m. Average specific gravity (sg) of granite is 2.6-2.7, so therefore somewhere around 12t.

Cheers

Steve

Its as deep as it is long,photo dont show that;););)
I would go 3x3x2m so more like 46 tonne,no wonder it took them 3 hours to move it.
Andrew

[JDNSW]

Probably not practical, but would have been a lot easier to move with a hole drilled in it an half a kilo of something suitable put in and detonated.

John

[DAMINK]

Do a mythbusters on em.
See how much explosive it takes to move said rock without pelting everything around with small rocks.

That would get my rocks off.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

shouldnt do things halfarsed Andy,,

D11T.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2016/03/653.jpg

[V8Ian]

They're council employees Pedro, by the time they'd climbed up to the cab, it'd be smoko. Come down and start all over again. ;)

[Rok_Dr]

Probably not practical, but would have been a lot easier to move with a hole drilled in it an half a kilo of something suitable put in and detonated.

John

At an estimated 42t my thoughts exactly. Let Dr Nobel's magic expanding bait tackle the problem :twisted::twisted::twisted:

Cheers

Steve

[cuppabillytea]

Good idea and the bonus would be a couple of truck loads of gravel already on sight.........or there abouts. :D

[Pedro_The_Swift]

This place sometimes see's Dr Nobels product in use...:rolleyes:

[BMKal]

Hey Andrew, if you want to turn those big rocks into little rocks, I've got access to a spare one of these that isn't doing anything at the moment .................. :p

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2016/03/639.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2016/03/640.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2016/03/641.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

Or there's a couple of these parked up next to it, also doing nothing at the moment - you could just leave the big rocks where they are and simply grind the top off them. :D:D:D

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2016/03/642.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

[LandyAndy]

We just got the bluemetal delivered Brian,1300 tonnes worth.Could have crunched them up.
Andrew