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.
@guloguloguy
4 жыл бұрын
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!!!]
@icanfix1
6 жыл бұрын
This is excellent. Very effective and low budget. Thank you for sharing.
@nf1708
4 жыл бұрын
Kudos to your rock moving adventure but sometimes we overthink things. A Burke bar is a very useful tool.
@jagboy69
2 ай бұрын
We call them a san angelo bar in my town. lol
@tombeals1062
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@camgreer
4 жыл бұрын
Nice job. Ingenuity wins the day. And Harbor Freight.
@wulfclaw4921
5 жыл бұрын
Couldn't you just remove one fence panel and access, then replace the panel afterwards?
@5537933
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing. Now I can see some solutions
@edeaglehouse2221
Жыл бұрын
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.
@SeattlePioneer
2 жыл бұрын
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!
@johnmatejcik2379
2 жыл бұрын
😁👍
@ChiefVPK
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to make this video !
@ducdaveduc
5 жыл бұрын
HELL YEA! Get it done! Nice job, thanks for sharing
@SoapySupreme
4 жыл бұрын
Hey guys I’m gonna show you how to move a rock by yourself first grab a 2000 lb trolly
@joekerby6330
Жыл бұрын
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
@paulpearson99
Жыл бұрын
My first thought would be to find an anchor inside the fence, and use a winch to pull the rock.
@ericschmuecker5573
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@leocantu3217
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@anthonywemigwans
3 жыл бұрын
well done! thanks for the info...
@Awesomes007
7 жыл бұрын
Nice work! Fun to be creative and save money!
@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@stonesandbones9331
5 жыл бұрын
Rent a pallet jack or buy one for $200-500.
@BurkenProductions
4 жыл бұрын
you should have mounted the I beam stands on the dollys though :D
@joedoe-sedoe7977
6 жыл бұрын
I moved one today almost the same size after failing do move it more than a foot in a half hour with a pry bar I used a come along anchored to a tree at one end and with a snow tire chain wrapped around the stone horizontally to keep it from sliding off or rolling
@RPRIMICI
6 жыл бұрын
If you want to minimize equipment, I think you could have used a plywood board to hold the rock and to roll it over several small pipes to act as wheels. A hand winch would be tied to the rock or board to pull it to the garden. To get the rock on the board would require using a wooden 4x4 as a lever with a wedge cut at the tip to allow it to get underneath the rock to slowly nudge the rock onto the board. To position the rock upright, you would use the 4x4 lever to move the rock and hold the position with wooden block wedges.
@kellydiver
2 жыл бұрын
This is basically how we do it in cemeteries. Use a tripod and a chain hoist to lift the rock, set it down on a 3/4” piece of plywood with several sections of oak dowels under it, and use a 5’ slate bar to move it along, moving the dowels from the back to the front as you move along. Easy peasy. The trick is to go slow and communicate, communicate, communicate.
@andrethomas2205
5 жыл бұрын
You had me when you said Harbor Freight!
@rijivit
7 жыл бұрын
gotta love youtube...who needs a zen garden when you can move rocks around ?
@Happy63funny
4 жыл бұрын
Nice solution; my first thought was to put it on the dolly then push it off on to a sled. Then use chain and pulley to pull it in place with the Jeep.
7 жыл бұрын
You have an amazing yard and love the fence.
@blueman9450
4 жыл бұрын
American ingenuity
@victorflores-kb3sp
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks that was really helpful!!
@suecelmer3951
4 жыл бұрын
Good job Sir.
@saeed6811
4 жыл бұрын
1000$ ??? Wow. That’s a NASA grade quote.
@emilywilson9632
4 жыл бұрын
I think I'll wear a shirt when I move my rocks.
@jagboy69
2 ай бұрын
Pallet jack. Buy from HF and return it!
@dougiesdigs
5 жыл бұрын
That's a lot of work to move a rock! Can you imagine what it took for the Pyramids?
@johnnycash7803
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@babyfrank66
3 жыл бұрын
to move that rock to me is a piece of cake I work in Masonry...is too easy.
@edeaglehouse2221
Жыл бұрын
Care to share a link to your video?
@CriticalElixer
6 жыл бұрын
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.)
@edeaglehouse2221
Жыл бұрын
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 $169 but if it works as well as yours did, I may have to invest in one.
@seasnakes6337
7 жыл бұрын
Is that a smallest rock you can find? I think I will become a rock after I am done moving it.
@BurkenProductions
4 жыл бұрын
break it into like 5-6 peices and then glue it back together again with some real cool adhesive thingy :)
@BonsaiZen
7 жыл бұрын
How to carry a stone on the hard way
@leef8063
3 жыл бұрын
nice job
@arthurfiorillo8591
6 жыл бұрын
use a plat jack
@fabehern5385
3 жыл бұрын
Don't mean to sound like a smart @**, but why didn't you use a 1000 lb dolly mover?
@iancraft7391
5 жыл бұрын
Could you not have simply removed part of the fence where you wanted the stone placed and have the nursery drop the stone right there? In any event I liked your creative method even if a simpler method may have been easier.
@johanzuk1
4 жыл бұрын
You paid over 100$ for rock. I guess price comes from rented equipment
@abdallahmanasrah2317
4 жыл бұрын
Its a pet rock Jesus the nervs on the salesman!
@scottphillips2420
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@yaneponil1470
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@yaneponil1470
4 жыл бұрын
This would have also workee with marbles or small rubber balls, given that he has a hard flat surface!
@SgtJoeSmith
5 жыл бұрын
Pallet jack
@rajeshwarsharma5766
6 жыл бұрын
You are not showing the main parts...
@bluejaystudio2029
Жыл бұрын
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...
@Kfjsb668
5 жыл бұрын
She’s fine!
@hauteswan2541
5 жыл бұрын
Good idea!
@oldowl4290
2 жыл бұрын
Should've measured your gate dimension and the pallet first. Big mis-step there but congrats otherwise on your zen-scaping.
@azraikezoe388
4 жыл бұрын
What is cost of all that you bought to move
@solismasonry1807
3 жыл бұрын
Are your ancestors from Egypt? Or perhaps Peru?
@2Ryled
4 жыл бұрын
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
@edeaglehouse2221
Жыл бұрын
No, they used slaves. Great lubrication, those.
@JoseRodriguez-dl2ic
3 жыл бұрын
pallet jack very easy
@andrewbratos6907
3 жыл бұрын
follow the Egyptians way
@traviscarr6536
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@yoyoitsKerry
5 жыл бұрын
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
@azraikezoe388
4 жыл бұрын
You didn't show how you put it together
@elliottalderson9349
4 жыл бұрын
5:10 Just screwed yourself outta the $10 pallet deposit. 🤭
@yawner1154
Жыл бұрын
These comments are full of horrible ideas 😂
@martynferguson4793
3 жыл бұрын
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
@dave12347507
6 жыл бұрын
i'll give you all the rocks you want for free lol
@thisone2540
5 жыл бұрын
Mate, why are you buying a rock and how did someone get away with selling it to you? You can literally find hundreds
@langjr0
3 жыл бұрын
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.
@thisone2540
3 жыл бұрын
@@langjr0 I know man, it’s like the people that see soil, I’d just get these sort of things myself for free
@davidboreham
2 жыл бұрын
Rocks are always cheap. It's getting it to his driveway that costs...
@thisone2540
2 жыл бұрын
@@davidboreham ye, that makes sense.
@JoseRodriguez-dl2ic
3 жыл бұрын
jajajaja look like he is not to smart
@cazzo53
6 жыл бұрын
I move stones that size+ By hand..
@ericschmuecker5573
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe by playing it some good music! The Rock moves!
@edeaglehouse2221
Жыл бұрын
That's incredible. I can barely lift my own body weight.
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