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  1. 8th March 2016, 09:26 PM #1
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    Getting ones rocks off....

    ....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.


    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.


    A few more days yet.
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    That's a nice bit of granite!

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

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    Take them home and build a rockery.
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    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????
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh View Post
    Take them home and build a rockery.
    I was going to send it to Coops via Aussie post COD
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    D9 struggling, must be a fair lump of rock.
    If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    D9 struggling, must be a fair lump of rock.
    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
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LandyAndy View Post
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    Look at that nice little rock with the cute tonka toy behind it

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

    Got sick of hooking the grader blade on it every time you did a maintenance grade Andrew???
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    The hole will take some compacting.
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