How To Haul Big Rocks
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- How to haul big rocks, out in the woods, off the grid.
So, we needed a few rocks to complete landscaping and access to & around the gazebo, sauna, bath house combo building.
The flat rocks were sitting on the beach, begging to be hauled up and assembled in to something useful, in human terms. No rocks were harmed in this process. No cement or mortar was used to hold the rocks in place - only natural placement and the weight of the stones were employed during this exercise. It was wonderful to use only human power and natural materials to form our human environment. When we are long gone (and generations that succeed us) these materials will return to threir native place,
Music: Traveling Souls, bought from jewelbeat.com and used under licence.
Love the winch! Terrific video-- thank you.
ROCKS! I've been driving my family crazy moving huge rocks around my property from the woods. Thank you for the ideas! Great channel!!!
that's one cool looking machine I really love old broken machinery that is given some TLC an out to work again! Great video brother.
Another great video sir. That is an awesome winch. Gonna look around and see what i can find here. Thanks again.
Thanks for watching John!
Cheers,
M
Simply Brilliant!!!
Just pry the stone up with some kind of lever - a 2X4 or large crow bar - and slip the log rollers underneath. Sorry I didn't make that clear.
Thanks for watching!
M
Very impressed. And A beautiful setting.
Great content 👍
I built an 185' stone henge fence in 1 week. boulders averaging 400lbs. I used a 4' round pry bar with pointy tips. There is a superb dolly for moving rocks over terrain called JobSmart Boss Hoss from Tractor Supply. 15" wheels, zerk fittings, bearings, 3/4 axle 62" tall. much bigger then other dollies. I paid $111 with tax.
This fence enclosure was filled with mulch for 10 fruit trees. It will last for millennia and I now have plenty of benches to sit on. The fence is endlessly changing as light hits it. No man made fence can remotely compare. it also preserves ground moisture. Aesthetically stunning and I have improved value of property probably 10k.
I moved rocks up to about 650lbs averaging 250' each, up to 600' with that dolly, by myself. (With 2 people, thjob is vastly easier.)
Hey, thanks for watching.
It would be more work without the winch & pulleys. on the other hand, I'm glad we're not building a pyramid or Machu Picchu :-)
M
Yeh, a sauna with (smaller) hot rocks :-)
Thanks for watching!
Hi no problem just in australia we have much tighter regulations. apparantly we can take sand but not rocks i like your project thanks
W e have regulations, but people like this don't think laws apply to him.
Once again good video sir! Excellent demonstration and practices of Mechanical advantage! I wish i could find one of those NON electric models of that cable hoist you have. GOOD TOOL!! I also like the motivating background music. Well done!
Thanks again Sean - always trying to keep the fans happy!
M
your welcome sir!
...yes Dr. Hola!
I'm taking it easy today FYI. Enjoying perpetual summer up here. I'm back at it tomorrow continuing with a concrete deck/porch project out front of the house - stay tuned. The Canuck Stonhenge project may have to wait ;-)
Cool video
Yeh, we're all washed up, I guess ;-)
Thanks for watching!
M
ohh my, the winch @3:20 ! i see one for sale on the side of the road just beside me.
This is very helpful. I know how to move the rock once I get it to my yard. My challenge remains how to load the rock onto the back of a pickup truck to get it here!!!
Hi there,
Incline + rollers - just like the Egyptians :-)
Glad you found it useful and thanks for commenting.
Cheers,
M
Grateful. Thank you.
good!
interesting...
Thanks for watching, Allan. I love to shape my environment with the materials at hand :-)
nice job. Subscribed
Haha.. .great video Markerbuoy! Like to see the use of local materials
Hey Marker, I see you like Taylor Swift too, Love the intro and outro song, " Our Song" its off her 2006-2008 album Taylor Swift. , her first album out.
Thanks for the heads up.
I thought the music was Traveling Souls which I bought from jewelbeat.com, as I mention in the credits and in the description above.
Gotta love Taylor Swift :-)
M
Nice video of your big rocks! Seems like an awful lot of work, though. Do you get to have a sauna after you're done?
nice video you could cheat a little and hook up an impact to one side of the crank
I miss seeing how did you managed to place the logs under the stone.
Where do you get the rocks?
are you allowed to remove rocks from the beach ?
A rock here and there is not an issue when I checked with Federal Fisheries. However, wholesale modification of a beach is a whole other issue - definitely not what I'm doing here.
It looks like he has been stealing a lot of rocks from public beach.
I would move the rocks at the beach into a sitting area. Or steps. Nice flat rocks you have there yes sir your a rock hound
Leave no trace. It means leave things where they are for others to enjoy
So the video is on the rocks?
Are you stealing the rocks?
He stole a lot of rocks from public beach.
Love your techniques. The Lord God who made the seas and loves you shaped that rock for you.
CokemanChatt :-)
Hey markerbuoy, (try to get Apple to spell that one) I have fallen in love with your winch and can’t find anything even remotely similar. How heavy do you think those rocks are? I can get a 13,000 pound rated winch, do you think that would move rocks of that size? Thanks. You’re the bomb.
Ha, a 13,000 pounder should move a mountain. If you have sufficient pulley reduction, you could even haul rocks like this by hand. It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it :-) I used that winch, as it was given to me by a neighbour. In recent years I have had a lot of use out of this little portable unit www.portablewinch.com/ca_en/winches/gas-winches/pcw5000/. Thanks for watching & reaching out!
Is that Roberts creek area?
Gulf Islands - across the water from Roberts Creek.
Interesting video. I think your single block attached to the stone gives you no mechanical advantage.It merely returns the rope to the winch. Imagine the setup as vertical and your rock weighed a hundred pounds , it would take a one hundred pound force to lift.Google pulleys. your winch is doing all the work.
So good job I had a decent winch!
You're quite right - thanks for watching & pointing that out :-)
M
I don't agree.
A pulley at the rock will halve the effort and every foot the cable is pulled, the rock will only move 1/2 a foot.
George Gibson Hi George. Thanks for chiming in :-) Mechanical advantage or not, the rocks are off the beach & they're not going back! Thanks again for the sub...
Best regards,
M
Well you're wrong, Roman. It halved the effort.
Imagine the set-up as vertical and your rock weighing a hundred pounds, with the pulley mounted on the weight beneath and the wires' end returning to the point of force (winch) above. As the wire is doubled at the point of weight by the pulley, the wire must be reeled in 2 feet for each foot the weight is moved. This is a 2:1 ratio, this therefore halves the force required to lift the weight, you would only require 50lbs of force to lift the rock.
For your assumption to be correct, the pulley would have been mounted above (stationary) and both the weight and force beneath.
Ha, the debate continues...
The fact is, it's a very large rock which used to sit on the beach. Now that rock has been "retrieved" an is re-purposed as part of my landscape. Love it :-)
Are you originally Scottish?
Lancashire. A long time ago.
Thanks for watching 👍
What the heo you stole rocks and boulders from public beach? The rocks sitting on the beach does not mean that you could haul to your house and build thing. SMH
Long ago, I informed the local authorities of my work, after protests from some neighbors.
Officially, there is no problem; only in the mind of some individuals.
Thank-you for your concern.
Cheers,
M