How to Remove a Boulder | This Old House
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shares his secrets for busting up big boulders. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping List for How to Remove a Boulder:
- a big rock that's in the way
Tools for How to Remove a Boulder:
- pointed shovel [amzn.to/2ZPBjJB], used to dig around rock
- electric rotary hammer [amzn.to/2UtK2Ab] and 1/2-inch-diameter masonry bit [amzn.to/2LoGWdU], used to drive screws and drill screw holes
- bulb-type syringe [amzn.to/2ZRRwOg], for blowing dust out of holes
- feathers and wedges [amzn.to/2PQozTp], used to split the rock
- 3-pound sledgehammer [amzn.to/2LmAAvp], for pounding in the wedges
- long-handled pry bar [amzn.to/2zTGnlN], used to break off split pieces of rock
- diesel-powered air compressor [amzn.to/2LuBx3A] and rotary rock hammer [amzn.to/2ZOKZny], for drilling and splitting large rocks
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How to Remove a Boulder | This Old House
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Did anybody notice at the end when they declared "The rock's gone!!!!" , did you happen to notice that the rock wasn't gone? It takes a keen eye, but if you look closely, you can see that that BIG boulder is still there and all they removed was the tip. And using a little verbal queue's they led their audience to think the rock was gone, when it wasn't. Very good programming.
TollfreeNumber.ORG damn you got a good eye I didn’t notice It doubt they did either
I see what you did there 😏.
Dang it took me three times to even notice that boulder !! wow 😮
Actually, junior...if you watched the entire episode from the beginning, they only need to removed the portion that was exposed because it was blocking the area where they were trying to do construction. But nice little story you told anyway....next time get your facts straight.
jpatrick1967 what facts dipshit this video said they were gonna remove a boulder and they stated rocks gone ...
whats wrong with calling out the obvious..maybe then they should rename it how to take off the tip of a boulder..
Awesome video. AND convinced me if i am ever in this situation I will simply change project location. Tremendous amount of work on that boulder!
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Finally! A video on removing a rock from the landscape!
My entire yard has one big rock under it and it is poking through the ground. I want to bring the rock down and plant more grass. This gives me a starting point.
Thank you
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There were not enough explosives in this video for my taste.
Not for me either, but usually the towns and the US Army get pissed off when you use over 10 lb of C4.
Charles Damery
Why not thermite? just melt that bad boy out of there...
Quentin F
Thermite reaches 4,000 degrees. Volcanos are around 2000 degrees and melt everything but metamorphic rock which is crystalized by extreme heat. Thermite will indeed melt sedimentary rock and igneous rock..
Quentin F lpg weed burner cold water would fracture it in to little shards - chips
why didnt they just tie the bolder to a car and pulled it out lol
Go get the bah from tha cah so we can split this rock ovah heeyah. That Boston accent....
I thought they had a speech impediment.. lmao glad you told me
Oh no, my khakis got stained, and my car keys got busted up.
go get the bah from the cah then ill rip ya round tha yad
A Boston accent IS a speech impediment.
Talonious X lmfao i was thinking the same thing ....his accent is as thick as chowdah
No respiratory protection? I do love the sound of respiratory irritation and silicosis in the morning.
....especially as I'm feeling the night stand for my cigarettes.
Darth Vader.
This guy loves his feathers and wedges
Rock is not gone silly
He does more damage to the spoken English language than the boulder. "R"! IT'S A LETTER! SAY IT, MUSHMOUTH!
@@smithnameman5588 you're probably not familiar with a Boston accent lol
LMAO
It's ok Rocky. You can move when you want.
Good video. The guy at the tool rental store suggested I try this approach rather than my original plan to use a hammer drill with a 1 ½" bit and Dexpan. This worked good on my concrete steps but he thought it would take a lot longer on the harder rock and could potentially ruin the $180 bit and drill.
I broke up a granite boulder much larger than this one using Dexpan and it worked great. To save time I drilled 1-1/4" holes using a rented SDS-Max rotary hammer. Took about 20 minutes per hole. I got the bit off amazon for $65. To get rid of all the granite pieces I put an ad on craigslist and several people picked it up for free.
Come to southern Wisconsin and try that on the one of a trillion blue granite boulders twice that size here.
My technique has always been to just dig a deeper hole next to it and push it in and bury it. Not much else you can do.
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The landscaping guy is the "Fredo" of This Old House
Back in my day, to break rocks, we used our fists.
Back in your day your fists got
broken
back in my day, to break our fists, we used rocks
Wreck-it-Ralph, is that you?
Chuck Norris approves.
We used to use c3
Personally, I would've rented a bobcat, dug it up and re-purposed it as landscape material, maybe put it in the center of a garden bed with flowers surrounding it.
kman 4443. It's kinda heavy and there may not of been a location for the piece. Bobcats tear up yaads,also.
No. Get a wheel machine, not the track. You can also put plywood in your yard for the machine. also, i had seen bobcats taking even bigger rocks than the one of the video.
kman 4443 not sure a bobcat would have done it that thing was low and very large
@@patty109109Skit steer, no. Probably a mini excavator.
Father dug out his own basement under the house in the 1930's. He had no practical way to remove a huge boulder he encountered. So he dug a deep pit directly under where a load bearing support was needed in the middle of the room. It took a lot of work to move the boulder into the pit to use it as a support footing.
It stuck out of the pit too far and had to be broken down by hand. He finally gave up and poured the floor over the top of the boulder. the floor now had a high spot directly under where the pole was placed. All of this was done with just friends and little money.....The old school way.
"Alright, the rocks gone!"....lol, yeah right.
I’m their defense, 3 years later, they probably needed clearance for something lol
Cool! I have a few large boulders I would like to get rid of.
I Love This Old House
After all these years, I thought that I'm the only guy in the world that runs into this type of stuff when I'm digging?
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Seeing comments about Rogers accent always makes me laugh because he talks normal to me then again I'm from Boston
Say car and parked! 🙃
That's a nice Boulder
"We got a good crack, right there" lol
Cliff Carlo. Giggity!
Why did you need to split it three different times and the last set of wedges were a bit over the top the first set were plenty man enough if they were put in the right place
More drama/demonstration...
Weight reduction. Personally I would have just rented a backhoe or something of that effect.
Andy ball exactly. Makes for better TV I guess.
Agreed no need to rent all that heavy equipment but I’m pretty sure that’s part of the advertising the show has to do with certain tools like the air compressor or drill but I’m doing this in yard with just a hammer drill 3 feather and wedges a sledge hammer and pry bar. Yes it’s the slow method but it’s just to remove certain parts of big boulders sticking out in my yard that are way too big n deep to try and fully move. Basically reducing them enough so they are no longer tripping hazards and out of the way
I need to go to Bahston to get a hamah and a bah.
very cool, but they poorly edited the footage of the woman running the jackhammer. We should have seen a really good slo-mo view of that
Now imagine you are Gutzon Borglum suspended hundreds of feet in the air doing this for a couple decades to shape Mt Rushmore. Art appreciation!
Fill it with TNT...
Not next to a bunch of residential houses.
Yea I wamt to see Roger go to his local garden center for some TNT.lol
why dont you use dynimite
We live along the columbia river gorge. We have alot of large rocks in the yard and my friend has bolders in his yard and basement. Back whne the Missoula glacier melted thousands of years ago rocks the size of volkswagens tore through the gorge like pebbles
Yeah! I have all those things just lying around the house.
That's a lot of nice looking stone.
Aye it's me, Mr construction guy. Imma hit this rock with a hamma
Some Rock solid advice
For the price of that diesel compressor and all the tools you can rent an excavator with a grapple for cheaper and faster
What about the pioneer's ?
Now that was some information I can use thank you ...
i would have rented an excavator for the same price and have me a nice decorative boulder for my 'gahden'
Same price as what
Marvin Marvin as all the equipment rental, and time?
@@marvinmarvin6672 cost of renting a diesel air compressor, jack hammer, and rock drill?
I just don't see how this much time and effort is worth it over hiring a backhoe to show up for ten minutes and just dig it out.
It 's a rock ledge, it runs out under the street.
If that is the case, why does the title of this video use the word "boulder"?
To add on to Charles' comment.... In the full episode they mentioned that the rock ledge was really close to the natural gas main for the the house.
Do we have to worry about damaging the house when its that close? Otherwise you could just drop some weak explosive in it.
Rent a backhoe or bobcat from home depot $250 a day and use a chain or strap to move it once youve dug around it
A sierra blaster have it done in 1/2 hour
In other words, hire someone/company that has the equipment!
Where are those large feathers and wedges sold?
Am i the only one who hears Elmer Fudd every time this dude is saying "Wedges and feathers" ?
If i am renting that compressor and jack hamer why would i use feathers and wedges?
Take a shot every time he says "feathers and a wedge"
If only the pyramid building slaves in Giza has access to these diesel powered compressed air driven tools. The pyramids would have been twice as big.
Rock: am I a joke to you
I wouldve just used a skid Steer.. works everytime
Well we finally found out what Mahk does when he’s not making Chevy Commercials
Oh god lol
“When life puts you in touchy situations, don’t say “Why Me?” Just say “Try Me.”” - The Rock
In those tough guy movies they sometimes say "you ain't got the stones..." show them that rock
Expanding clay method is probably easier and more efficient but not as fun. ;)
No need to mess around with those wedges. Just hire out a hydraulic breaker
Masonry* as opposed to masonary
So that's where George Castanza lives.
C4.. instant Boulder removal!
real success would have been to take the rock out intact and put on the front lawn
That's great, wonderful!
Wait a minute, wait a minute....get me the BAAAH
that was a bit overkill for such a small rock
We just make a good fire on the rock, and when it is utterly hot we pour cold water on it. That's pretty enough to get it entirely cracked.
Lula França use a pickaxes and throw it off the roof lol
Looks like fun !!!
Would probably use firecrackers to blow cracks in the stones after making holes
I had to remove a boulder in my front yard. I rented an electric jack hammer and turned the boulder into rocks. No drill, no wedges just chip away.
we'll get a baar!
Did sat Hammer oh hamma ??
Homeowner: "Hey Roger, what are those wedges made of?"
Roger: "Well, haha... been ah dahh finna wa, is canna binna mah. Simma mah fingah?"
Can you list all the tools you used?
Still rock left needed to dig sole away then get rid of the rock
He makes it seam like the first set of feather and wedges wouldnt have split that sized boulder. But, I've seen 3rd world videos of people people splitting car sized boulders with hand driven feathers and wedges.
Silica. Enough said
BRO I'LL SPILT THAT STONE WITH SPIT!!! ⛏
What a beautiful rock
dynamite spirngs to mind, also wouldent it of been much cheaper, couldent you of used a truck and a strap round the rock, use a pressure washer to under mine it and pull?
Just put a *baaah* in *heeyah*
why didn't they just use a jackhammer in the first place.
+ chris firpo - it's an instructional TV show. They show different ways to accomplish the same task since not everyone has the same budget.
maybe to show the people that dont have access to a jack hammer
lex luther lol rote my comment then see u rote more or less the same thing oh and i preffer clark
I think to show you how to do it if you don't have the 10,000$ jack hammer and 20,000 diesel powered air compressor
How i find these steel things you put in the holes ? I have a huge rock in my yard 3feet tall
kx1988 order them online
kiriakos1988 just use a mini ex and take it out
Even with the jack hammer it's 2 or 3 days work.
I miss Rodger
Takes one inch oh wow
Wasted a very nice landscape boulder. Wasted time and energy too. With just that jackhammer alone I could have had that rock busted up in less time than it took to drill those holes. Or I would have used a circular saw to cut across it using a diamond blade a couple times, then bust it off with the bar. Lastly, use water when drilling. The dust is harmful to the lungs and saves wear on the bits.
That boulder would have cost THOUSANDS of dollars down here. Seeing it get destroyed is killing me.
Ryan Lee Waldron come to my construction yard I literally have 750,000+ rocks just like that I crush on a weekly basis
Not worth anything if you can't move it, store it and sell it. The first two are hard because its bloody heavy and I don't have any contacts to sell it.
So a guy like you might be able to make money off that rock but how would a layman?
where are you from because id be a millionaire if i could sell boulders like that for thousands...
Why not just rent a bobcat and take the rock out?
hmm, a diesel powered ear compressor??
Calle 'Regino' Esping ear or air compressor?
Richard van Pukkem haha :)
Anyone know what happened to his finger?
Next week, Roger shows homeowners how to keep pesky water from flooding a mineshaft.
I always drilled a hole and use some back powder but I live in the middle of nowhere
Feathers & Wedges sounds like a indie folk-rock band name
watch Demolition Dave drilling and blasting on RUclips
There is a way to do everything
Feathers and wedges?!
What is this...1895?!
Where's the backhoe, or excavator?!
It's instructional. Also it's a ledge, the bedrock extends much farther out and down.
Jack hammer?
Haha i have had bigger boulders than that and me and my dad have just broke them up with hammers, coal chisels, sledges and pry bars :D
SgtAMYNTAS. We all aren't that lucky to have sandstone where we live.
Aren't they called 'cold' chisels?
Slow clap
....in a year.
I would rented a chain lift and heavy steel lift frame and lifted it out in two pieces
No masks or eye protection...seriously?
Aloha Miller he had the eye protection on top of his head
Who gives a crap about that stuff you pansy
CHADE
Who cares? The people who care will still have their eyes when they're older.
That's the Merican way!
safty kills
Chris Redfield take care of it real quick
"Boy, if i were back on the chain gang...we'd shoa 'em."
masonry, not masonary.
How to talk three days to dig out a rock should be the name of this
THE ROCK ISNT GONE
Me: """see's boulder"""
Boulder: haha muda fuka
Me: *get the explosives*
hamma