John Deere And Big Rock

rusty6 · Jul 11, 2019

I was using the JD 2140 to push some dead trees off the fields yesterday and took this picture. That is the biggest rock on the farm in the foreground, Dug out of the field 30 some years ago and pushed off to the edge by a big old Cat. Some of my patchy canola blooming in the background.

showcrop · Jul 12, 2019

Rusty, I'll bet that now that you have said that, the next time you drop a shank in the ground it will lift up and over another even bigger rock that is just short of breaking through into daylight, LOL.

rusty6 · Jul 12, 2019

(quoted from post at 04:57:48 07/12/19)

Rusty, I'll bet that now that you have said that, the next time you drop a shank in the ground it will lift up and over another even bigger rock that is just short of breaking through into daylight, LOL.

Now that you mention it, there is another rock that is big enough to show on google earth. We tried digging it out but were unable to pull it out of the ground with the biggest tractor I had at the time (2090 Case). So I work around it.

SweetFeet · Jul 12, 2019

Yeppers, that's a BIG rock. Neat pic.

55 50 Ron · Jul 12, 2019

Thanks for another nice photo. Which way from your farm site do we need to look on Google to find the BIG rock?

Donald Lehman · Jul 12, 2019

Anybody in your area with a dynamite license? Break it into pieces your equipment can handle?

showcrop · Jul 12, 2019

(quoted from post at 07:08:07 07/12/19) Anybody in your area with a dynamite license? Break it into pieces your equipment can handle?

My mother used to tell how her father used to break up big rocks on the farm with a star drill and dynamite, and how nervous her mother would get.

rusty6 · Jul 12, 2019

I got into enough trouble with firecrackers as a kid that I wouldn't want anything to do with dynamite. This is a screen grab of the
big one still in the ground.

kcm.MN · Jul 12, 2019

You could break up your big rocks using something like [b:00baa29aea]Dexpan[/b:00baa29aea]. It's even available at Home Depot:
https://www.homedepot.com/b/Building-Materials/Dexpan/N-5yc1vZaqnsZcwz

There are other brands as well, but this was the only one I'd heard of before. Couple of others are [b:00baa29aea]Rockfrac[/b:00baa29aea] and [b:00baa29aea]Ecobust[/b:00baa29aea].

You'd also need some way of making holes in the rocks -- cordless hammer drill, but more likely a portable generator powering an electric hammer drill, or something larger.

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