Rock Stacking...

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Back in the 70s, the local phone company trenched in landlines across the front of my property, pruning out some pretty big rocks. (1st pic)
They were right where our new fence was going to go, so I had the fence contractor use his (big) backhoe to move the largest five across our drainage water course, away from the fence line.
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Then I used the B7100 to move the smaller ones, and got the idea of stacking them on the bigger ones. IMG_0164.JPG IMG_0165.JPG IMG_0166.JPG IMG_0167.JPG IMG_0168.JPG
 
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Looks good, just make sure they're stable, young children are going to want to climb on them.
 
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It’s Biblical.
 
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I first thought you were talking about dry stacking a wall (kinda). I started one supporting a berm near my tractor shed last spring and developed a good technique/ rhythm to place - BTW They really hurt when they shift!

Nice touch on the bucket control resting them on each other. I tend to keep them to 2x in piles and try to place them where I won't have to move them again.

...Free rocks at my place if anyone wants them? :p
 
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I first thought you were talking about dry stacking a wall (kinda). I started one supporting a berm near my tractor shed last spring and developed a good technique/ rhythm to place - BTW They really hurt when they shift!

Nice touch on the bucket control resting them on each other. I tend to keep them to 2x in piles and try to place them where I won't have to move them again.

...Free rocks at my place if anyone wants them? :p
If you bring them to me (free) I'll take a bunch.
You are probably only about 400 miles away. ;)
Biggest rock I have is about the size of a quarter.
 
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These are ExWorks at my site - I'll load you though!
 

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Looks good, just make sure they're stable, young children are going to want to climb on them.
They are pretty solid, and the bigger ones cannot be moved without mechanical help, the smaller ones I can knock down by hand, but I doubt a kid could.
Besides. they will soon be fenced in.
 

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I first thought you were talking about dry stacking a wall (kinda). I started one supporting a berm near my tractor shed last spring and developed a good technique/ rhythm to place - BTW They really hurt when they shift!

Nice touch on the bucket control resting them on each other. I tend to keep them to 2x in piles and try to place them where I won't have to move them again.

...Free rocks at my place if anyone wants them? :p
I did a lot of that when I raised my driveway for a culvert.
Here is the full thread:
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These are ExWorks at my site - I'll load you though!
Don't wait up for me! :giggle:
They are pretty solid, and the bigger ones cannot be moved without mechanical help, the smaller ones I can knock down by hand, but I doubt a kid could.
Besides. they will soon be fenced in.
I had a contractor (Cat 320C) intermittently stack bigger (sculpture) rocks like that for me along, my 2000+ foot new build driveway, at my former Nova Scotia Summer home.
He suggested the idea, and my SO loved it.
Some locals thought it looked goofy, but we named each group.
 

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Nice touch on the bucket control resting them on each other.
Thanks!
Did a lot of preplanning, positioning them so that when I picked them up, the correct side would be down when placed. Some were wrestled out of the bucket as oriented into postion, others were rolled out and into position.
Only had one get away from me, and it did no damage, I just had to pick it up & place it twice.
 
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500 years from now those will drive archaeologists crazy. trying to figure who,when and why they were placed like that.
 
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500 years from now those will drive archaeologists crazy. trying to figure who,when and why they were placed like that.
…and WHy they were removed from only the top-floor of an Ancient Underground Temple….