Getting ones rocks off....

**LandyAndy** · 8th March 2016, 10:17 PM

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** · 8th March 2016, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by 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

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** · 9th March 2016, 06:17 AM

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 · 9th March 2016, 06:54 AM

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** · 9th March 2016, 06:59 AM

shouldnt do things halfarsed Andy,,

D11T.

**V8Ian** · 9th March 2016, 10:01 AM

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** · 9th March 2016, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by 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

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

Cheers

Steve

**cuppabillytea** · 9th March 2016, 10:37 AM

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

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 9th March 2016, 12:30 PM

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

**BMKal** · 9th March 2016, 05:47 PM

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 ..................

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.

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