How do I get this boulder out of this hole?
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What would be the approximate weight of an egg-shaped granite boulder about 8 feet long and 6 feet in diameter?
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The egg-shaped granite boulder would weigh approximately 26,400 pounds (about 13.2 tons).
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Bruce
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The egg-shaped granite boulder would weigh approximately 26,400 pounds (about 13.2 tons).
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Bruce
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Something tells me the OP would have a more difficult time rounding up 18 people equipped with hundreds of feet of rope than calling a local to come dig it out in 2 hours.
That's the way to do it. Get down in there, carve that rock into an Easter Island statue, dig the ground out flat to daylight, get a couple dozen people and move that rock!
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We have big equipment now. They still argue how the Egyptians did it. But it was a lot of manpower and moving flat faces on rollers and sand. Just need to hire someone with a bigger track-hoe.
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That's the way to do it. Get down in there, carve that rock into an Easter Island statue, dig the ground out flat to daylight, get a couple dozen people and move that rock!
Let’s have a TBN rally at the OP’s property and maybe we can see who’s got the most “farm boy” strength!
Don’t forget to pack your 100’ rope along with some clean tight-whiteys!
Have to be quite the hoe to get that out of there whole, especially if he wants it to go anywhere else in the yard. He mentioned using it as a "focal piece in landscaping. That rock probably weighs a good 10+ tons. Biggest excavator I've run was a 40 ton machine and it would have struggled with that, even if there was a good way to grab it. It's possible, with the right machines, but it very likely is going to be really expensive. Gonna depend how badly he wants that particular "focal piece".
