JCB vs Boulder...pictures attached

[GaryInWA]

I am currently clearing a site for my garage and encountered a rather large boulder. I have moved some pretty good sized rocks with my JCB 1400B but this was the biggest yet. I had to remove it as it was in the way of the concrete slab, I was able to build a ramp and pull it out with the backhoe, boy am I glad I own a fullsize backhoe

I attached some pictures of me attacking the boulder and getting it out of the way.

PS: The rear tire of my backhoe is 4 feet tall and my backhoe bucket is 24" wide to add some perspective

 

[sr160009]

Looks like th JBC won!!!!!

 

[whodat90]

Heck man, if you had the thumb on you could have just picked it up!

 

[MarkV]

That’s a rock alright! Not sure my little Kubota would have made that happen.

MarkV

 

[Richard]

Horsepower sure is fun huh?

I've got a 1550-B

 

[Nat]

Yeah, a thumb and 5 others hoes. I bet that rock weighs 20,000 lbs. Once you get under it they don't move too bad but it sure is a lot of work to get under it in the 1st place. Nice job of removing it. later, Nat

 

[6sunset6]

For sure it's nice to have a full size hoe. I have one also. When I was a kid my father and I used to move rocks , probably not that big but pretty big ,with pinch bars and smaller rocks and it took days when we had nothing else to do. Sort of miss those days.

 

[diyDave]

That'd be a good one to put your mailbox on to keep the vandals away!

 

[john_bud]

Yeah, a thumb and 5 others hoes. I bet that rock weighs 20,000 lbs. Once you get under it they don't move too bad but it sure is a lot of work to get under it in the 1st place. Nice job of removing it. later, Nat

Nat, I read your reply and thought -- Nawwww. Then started thinking. It's about cube 5' on a side. That makes it 125 cu ft of volume. Granite is about 125#/cu ft, so the rough estimate is 15,625#. Hey, that's a BIG rock! And a good estimate by you!

jb

 

[EddieWalker]

Congrats on a getting it out. Now what do you do with it?

I've had stumps in that size range, but never anything as heavy as that boulder. Those stumps are almost as hard to get to the burn pile as getting them out. I don't even want to think what it took to move that thing around.

Thanks for the pics, they are allot of fun.

Eddie