Tip: Build yourself a rock moving pallet.Get a 2X10 and cut it into (2) 3ft planks and (2) 2ft planks. Make a simple dolly like the one you have except get some pneumatic wheels/casters from Harbor freight. Get the large ones (maybe 8-10" wheels). I have 2 straight and 2 Omni directional casters. That cart will hold anything you can throw at it. It will roll through gravel, dirt, etc.I use a prybar (the long ones) and blocks to raise the rock on the dolly. Or sometimes I use my engine puller. Either way once it's loaded it's a breeze to move it where you want it.
WOW!!! THANK YOU, VERY MUCH, FOR POSTING THIS!!! I WANT TO COME UP WITH A WAY TO DO THIS, AS WELL, WITH MINIMUM "DIFFICULTY", AND "RISK OF INJURY"!!! I WAS THINKING ABOUT KEEPING THE "RAIL" CLOSER TO THE GROUND, AND POSSIBLY CONSIDERING SOMETHING LIKE A "RAILROAD TRACK" USING RIGID PIPE,... [GREAT JOB!!! LOOKS AWESOME!!!]
You did good. Always other ways, don't worry about naysayers. One caution. When things go bad they do it QUICKLY. Secure the ends of your I beam to the jack. Level side to side. Momentum could pull the beam right off to the side. Good to keep hands clear but feet are slower to move. Falling beams hurt. All in all, pretty good job.
There is an easier way to do it....Archimedes.....a long pole for leverage and cut poles, using plywood as a sandwich, the bottom being the runway the top plywood resting on just big enough cut poles...like the Egyptians. it will be slow but afterward you can use every piece of wood you cut, minimal cost...moved heavy weight before across grass, had a winch and rope to push
If you want to minimize equipment, I think you could have used a plywood board to hold the rock and to roll it over several small pipes to act as wheels. A hand winch would be tied to the rock or board to pull it to the garden. To get the rock on the board would require using a wooden 4x4 as a lever with a wedge cut at the tip to allow it to get underneath the rock to slowly nudge the rock onto the board. To position the rock upright, you would use the 4x4 lever to move the rock and hold the position with wooden block wedges.
This is basically how we do it in cemeteries. Use a tripod and a chain hoist to lift the rock, set it down on a 3/4” piece of plywood with several sections of oak dowels under it, and use a 5’ slate bar to move it along, moving the dowels from the back to the front as you move along. Easy peasy. The trick is to go slow and communicate, communicate, communicate.
There is a solution you may consider that I have used in the past . Get 2 or maybe 3 , 10 foot PVC pipe. 4 Inch wide. The thicker gage. cut it into segments of 3 or 4 feet .Use them as rollers like the Egyptians. Ask a buddy to give you a hand. Use a couple of 2 X 4s to use as pulleys. This would cost you less than$30. And it would even roll on grass. Works real well.
I have a sort of idea but it's probably dumb. Build a simplistic flat Square steel base with side skirts on it, and maybe put grease on the underside but also a bunch of large steel ball bearings, and basically you push it around.
I moved one today almost the same size after failing do move it more than a foot in a half hour with a pry bar I used a come along anchored to a tree at one end and with a snow tire chain wrapped around the stone horizontally to keep it from sliding off or rolling
I bought a boulder strewn property. my 185' stone fence would have cost u $13,875. I think 2 average people could have moved your rock with $100 dolly. U only require a pry bar. I built my fence over rough terrain. U have cement. I had to transport my stones 4.46 miles with no helper off mostly rough terrain. Just loading one rock was sometimes like playing chess with 2 world champions. I built an 185' stone henge fence in 1 week. boulders averaging 350lbs. I used a 4' round pry bar with pointy tips. There is a superb 1,000lb 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.)
That's amazing! Wow, you just work out! Seriously, that's an amazing accomplishment. The pneumatic tires on that hand truck must have helped more than I realized. Today the JobSmart truck is $169 but if it works as well as yours did, I may have to invest in one.
Oh yes but they did it in 20 years just took a lot of man power an log rollers an no pullies an copper tools..........hahahaha 🤔🤔🤔 such BS they have been feeding us since we was kids.
Easy way would have been fashinon sone 2x2 boards into round shape maybe 10 of them by 3' length, use prybar to push rock unto a 3x3' piece of plywood on rollers, push rock by hand, move rollers along. The vikings used to do this only with their ship and large trees.
Could you not have simply removed part of the fence where you wanted the stone placed and have the nursery drop the stone right there? In any event I liked your creative method even if a simpler method may have been easier.
Hmmm, jack stands over 2000lb $100 a piece ( cheap quality)....I beam trolley.. maybe $100 ( some low-cost one); 2000 lb chain hoist.... $100? or more like $200.. 6 ft of I beam...no idea, $1.00 per lb of steel.....125 lb of beam...$ 125.... extra chain is $50, and some dollies for $50 each....how much will my cost of stone move set up like this? ..$675 or more >>>still that rock will cost quite a bit like that ?! ( not counting all the time to get all that stuff, driving to my favorite hardware store, and putting all that together.... forgot the heavy-duty straps, those are not $10 item either...
I would say one of their cherry pickers would have worked better.I got a bunch of stones I got to place into a creek and that is the method I'm going to use hopefully but hopefully, the cherry picker will get them there.
Didnt the Egyptians use rollers? And keep putting one in front of another. Slow but would work. Open the fence to get it they instead of they gate and around
I had to stop after hearing that a guy paid for someone to buy a huge rock. If any you guys wanna buy rocks then contact me and I’ll load em and haul em in my dump truck to any idiot who want one in their yard. We try to remove em out of the yard here in the Smokey Mountains. People are crazy, n I can’t even imagine how he’s gonna go about this with his makeshift crap.
Near big cities there are places to buy gravel, stones and huge rocks like this. Their not cheap: maybe $500-700. for a pallet full. I priced them 15 years ago in Charlotte NC area and was shocked at the prices. He got one pretty cheap in my opinion. Very beautiful rock, by the way.
Tip: Build yourself a rock moving pallet.Get a 2X10 and cut it into (2) 3ft planks and (2) 2ft planks. Make a simple dolly like the one you have except get some pneumatic wheels/casters from Harbor freight. Get the large ones (maybe 8-10" wheels). I have 2 straight and 2 Omni directional casters. That cart will hold anything you can throw at it. It will roll through gravel, dirt, etc.I use a prybar (the long ones) and blocks to raise the rock on the dolly. Or sometimes I use my engine puller. Either way once it's loaded it's a breeze to move it where you want it.
WOW!!! THANK YOU, VERY MUCH, FOR POSTING THIS!!! I WANT TO COME UP WITH A WAY TO DO THIS, AS WELL, WITH MINIMUM "DIFFICULTY", AND "RISK OF INJURY"!!! I WAS THINKING ABOUT KEEPING THE "RAIL" CLOSER TO THE GROUND, AND POSSIBLY CONSIDERING SOMETHING LIKE A "RAILROAD TRACK" USING RIGID PIPE,... [GREAT JOB!!! LOOKS AWESOME!!!]
You did good. Always other ways, don't worry about naysayers. One caution. When things go bad they do it QUICKLY. Secure the ends of your I beam to the jack. Level side to side. Momentum could pull the beam right off to the side. Good to keep hands clear but feet are slower to move. Falling beams hurt. All in all, pretty good job.
Kudos to your rock moving adventure but sometimes we overthink things. A Burke bar is a very useful tool.
We call them a san angelo bar in my town. lol
This is excellent. Very effective and low budget. Thank you for sharing.
There is an easier way to do it....Archimedes.....a long pole for leverage and cut poles, using plywood as a sandwich, the bottom being the runway the top plywood resting on just big enough cut poles...like the Egyptians. it will be slow but afterward you can use every piece of wood you cut, minimal cost...moved heavy weight before across grass, had a winch and rope to push
Nice job. Ingenuity wins the day. And Harbor Freight.
If you had a buddy at an auto repair shop, it seems like you could have borrowed an engine hoist to do most of that work.
Thank you for sharing. Now I can see some solutions
Terrific job! I was only disappointed that we didn't actually get to see the rock moving. And falling on something (not you)!
More adventure that way!
😁👍
Thanks for taking the time to make this video !
Couldn't you just remove one fence panel and access, then replace the panel afterwards?
My first thought would be to find an anchor inside the fence, and use a winch to pull the rock.
If you want to minimize equipment, I think you could have used a plywood board to hold the rock and to roll it over several small pipes to act as wheels. A hand winch would be tied to the rock or board to pull it to the garden.
To get the rock on the board would require using a wooden 4x4 as a lever with a wedge cut at the tip to allow it to get underneath the rock to slowly nudge the rock onto the board.
To position the rock upright, you would use the 4x4 lever to move the rock and hold the position with wooden block wedges.
This is basically how we do it in cemeteries. Use a tripod and a chain hoist to lift the rock, set it down on a 3/4” piece of plywood with several sections of oak dowels under it, and use a 5’ slate bar to move it along, moving the dowels from the back to the front as you move along. Easy peasy. The trick is to go slow and communicate, communicate, communicate.
There is a solution you may consider that I have used in the past . Get 2 or maybe 3 , 10 foot PVC pipe. 4 Inch wide. The thicker gage. cut it into segments of 3 or 4 feet .Use them as rollers like the Egyptians. Ask a buddy to give you a hand. Use a couple of 2 X 4s to use as pulleys. This would cost you less than$30. And it would even roll on grass. Works real well.
HELL YEA! Get it done! Nice job, thanks for sharing
I have a sort of idea but it's probably dumb. Build a simplistic flat Square steel base with side skirts on it, and maybe put grease on the underside but also a bunch of large steel ball bearings, and basically you push it around.
It looked like a new world record in the making. Big guy big rock! Very moving.
I bet cell phones look tiny to you! Good stuff. Thanks.
well done! thanks for the info...
Good job Sir.
You had me when you said Harbor Freight!
I moved one today almost the same size after failing do move it more than a foot in a half hour with a pry bar I used a come along anchored to a tree at one end and with a snow tire chain wrapped around the stone horizontally to keep it from sliding off or rolling
You have an amazing yard and love the fence.
Nice work! Fun to be creative and save money!
you should have mounted the I beam stands on the dollys though :D
Nice solution; my first thought was to put it on the dolly then push it off on to a sled. Then use chain and pulley to pull it in place with the Jeep.
Rent a pallet jack or buy one for $200-500.
Hey guys I’m gonna show you how to move a rock by yourself first grab a 2000 lb trolly
gotta love youtube...who needs a zen garden when you can move rocks around ?
Thanks that was really helpful!!
Pallet jack. Buy from HF and return it!
American ingenuity
nice job
I bought a boulder strewn property. my 185' stone fence would have cost u $13,875.
I think 2 average people could have moved your rock with $100 dolly. U only require a pry bar. I built my fence over rough terrain. U have cement. I had to transport my stones 4.46 miles with no helper off mostly rough terrain. Just loading one rock was sometimes like playing chess with 2 world champions.
I built an 185' stone henge fence in 1 week. boulders averaging 350lbs. I used a 4' round pry bar with pointy tips. There is a superb 1,000lb 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.)
That's amazing! Wow, you just work out! Seriously, that's an amazing accomplishment. The pneumatic tires on that hand truck must have helped more than I realized. Today the JobSmart truck is $169 but if it works as well as yours did, I may have to invest in one.
That's a lot of work to move a rock! Can you imagine what it took for the Pyramids?
Oh yes but they did it in 20 years just took a lot of man power an log rollers an no pullies an copper tools..........hahahaha 🤔🤔🤔 such BS they have been feeding us since we was kids.
Easy way would have been fashinon sone 2x2 boards into round shape maybe 10 of them by 3' length, use prybar to push rock unto a 3x3' piece of plywood on rollers, push rock by hand, move rollers along.
The vikings used to do this only with their ship and large trees.
This would have also workee with marbles or small rubber balls, given that he has a hard flat surface!
Could you not have simply removed part of the fence where you wanted the stone placed and have the nursery drop the stone right there? In any event I liked your creative method even if a simpler method may have been easier.
break it into like 5-6 peices and then glue it back together again with some real cool adhesive thingy :)
Is that a smallest rock you can find? I think I will become a rock after I am done moving it.
Hmmm, jack stands over 2000lb $100 a piece ( cheap quality)....I beam trolley.. maybe $100 ( some low-cost one); 2000 lb chain hoist.... $100? or more like $200.. 6 ft of I beam...no idea, $1.00 per lb of steel.....125 lb of beam...$ 125.... extra chain is $50, and some dollies for $50 each....how much will my cost of stone move set up like this? ..$675 or more >>>still that rock will cost quite a bit like that ?! ( not counting all the time to get all that stuff, driving to my favorite hardware store, and putting all that together.... forgot the heavy-duty straps, those are not $10 item either...
I move stones that size+ By hand..
Maybe by playing it some good music! The Rock moves!
That's incredible. I can barely lift my own body weight.
to move that rock to me is a piece of cake I work in Masonry...is too easy.
Care to share a link to your video?
1000$ ??? Wow. That’s a NASA grade quote.
Don't mean to sound like a smart @**, but why didn't you use a 1000 lb dolly mover?
I would say one of their cherry pickers would have worked better.I got a bunch of stones I got to place into a creek and that is the method I'm going to use hopefully but hopefully, the cherry picker will get them there.
What is cost of all that you bought to move
use a plat jack
Good idea!
You paid over 100$ for rock. I guess price comes from rented equipment
Its a pet rock
Jesus the nervs on the salesman!
You are not showing the main parts...
I think I'll wear a shirt when I move my rocks.
Pallet jack
Are your ancestors from Egypt?
Or perhaps Peru?
Should've measured your gate dimension and the pallet first. Big mis-step there but congrats otherwise on your zen-scaping.
How to carry a stone on the hard way
She’s fine!
Didnt the Egyptians use rollers? And keep putting one in front of another. Slow but would work. Open the fence to get it they instead of they gate and around
No, they used slaves. Great lubrication, those.
Over thought and over engineered, large pinch bar and 4 or 5 lengths of round fence posts, a little time and a little effort and less than £10
You didn't show how you put it together
pallet jack very easy
follow the Egyptians way
I had to stop after hearing that a guy paid for someone to buy a huge rock. If any you guys wanna buy rocks then contact me and I’ll load em and haul em in my dump truck to any idiot who want one in their yard. We try to remove em out of the yard here in the Smokey Mountains. People are crazy, n I can’t even imagine how he’s gonna go about this with his makeshift crap.
As soon as I saw a guy shooting a video about moving a rock with his shirt off I knew it was gone be good
5:10
Just screwed yourself outta the $10 pallet deposit. 🤭
Mate, why are you buying a rock and how did someone get away with selling it to you? You can literally find hundreds
Near big cities there are places to buy gravel, stones and huge rocks like this. Their not cheap: maybe $500-700. for a pallet full. I priced them 15 years ago in Charlotte NC area and was shocked at the prices. He got one pretty cheap in my opinion. Very beautiful rock, by the way.
@@langjr0 I know man, it’s like the people that see soil, I’d just get these sort of things myself for free
Rocks are always cheap. It's getting it to his driveway that costs...
@@davidboreham ye, that makes sense.
These comments are full of horrible ideas 😂
i'll give you all the rocks you want for free lol
jajajaja look like he is not to smart