I want this rock

[RjCorazza]

Renting sounds like a good idea, particularly if you have other work to do with a big machine.
I recently moved a 40' shipping container maybe 100' with log rollers and my tractor, and it took all day (and tore up a lot of grass).
When ready to move it to its final position I rented an off road 6k forklift to move it (8k lbs with wheels on one end). Less than an hour later it was moved 100' and rotated 90 degrees. Easy peasy.

 

[Tinhack]

I used my little dozer to move two rocks like that. Couldn't just push them or pull them. I had to work them half at a time. I'd lift and push on one side then the other to sort of walk them the ~100' I had to go. It was slow going and took a while. That also messed up the yard pretty good.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

I'd wait for winter and drag it over the snow.

I realize that's not an option for you.

 

[groundcover]

Can't believe we're on a tractor site and no one told you to go by a big loader ! We're slacking ! Oh yeah, go by a big loader !

 

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Can't believe we're on a tractor site and no one told you to go by a big loader ! We're slacking ! Oh yeah, go by a big loader !

well I did put it in "community forums | rural living" for a reason... figured it's tractor-adjacent only at this point, though I do mention the likelihood of getting the tractor at least peripherally involved!

But yeah, I'll just go buy a big loader, great idea! brb

 

[zzvyb6]

Break it up into Little Rocks and glue it back together at the preferred site. If you don't like the results, take it to Arkansas...

 

[groundcover]

Handy for so many things ! Taking out the trash , planting bulbs, sky's the limit !

 

[oldnslo]

How are you going to dig the hole to place it in and hold it in place while filling said hole. I have had very little luck trying to set smaller rocks on the first try and typically have reposition once or twice to satisfy the job boss aka wife..

Good luck with this project

 

[Xfaxman]

Worst case, I figure, I have a job for a telehandler coming up in the next couple of years;

I hope you mean a compact telehandler. Mine would pick it up easily: Compact telehandler

 

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How are you going to dig the hole to place it in and hold it in place while filling said hole. I have had very little luck trying to set smaller rocks on the first try and typically have reposition once or twice to satisfy the job boss aka wife..

Good luck with this project

Well, this sort of question is part of what makes me guess a telehandler rental is in the future.

I'm planning to build my driveway a new gate along with an "arch" structure (current gate was placed IMO too far up the drive and new fence has pushed the yard further out; also old gate is only 12' wide which given a non-straight driveway immediately after the gate makes more interesting to back trailers and I've actually seen people refuse to back a car down the driveway but that has more to do with their lack of ... never mind); given that the arch structure will need to provide fire trucks full clearance it's going to be tall and it would be easiest for me to assemble it on the ground and place it in one shot with a TH, and then I can use the TH to grab the rock and drop it into a hole.

One daydream involves picking it up in a perfect position and lowering it into a hole and then dump a bunch of gravel into the hole around it. Or set it into concrete so it doesn't have to be perfectly balanced as long as there's enough of the base in the concrete to hold onto it (hmm drill hole into bottom of it and set pipe... nah dang that sounds hard)