| Name: |
rusty2
- 
|
|
| Subject: |
Boulder destruction/removal
|
|
Date:
|
8/7/2007 5:04:10 PM
|
Anyone have experience with a local company that can obliterate a boulder that is at the end of my boat ramp? It is completely out of the water at this point. I would like for it to be broken up and the pieces placed alongside the seawall. Any suggestions are appreciated! Thanks in advance!
|
| Name: |
Nutin Bitein
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Boulder destruction/removal
|
|
Date:
|
8/7/2007 5:32:06 PM
|
This stuff should do it. archerusa.com Yuo will need a drill to drill into the rock.
|
| Name: |
Osms
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Boulder destruction/removal
|
|
Date:
|
8/7/2007 7:12:37 PM
|
Lake Martin Dock is the only outfit on the lake with a track hoe on a barge. I'm sure they can do it---if they will!
|
| Name: |
John C
-
|
|
| Subject: |
ditto on LM Dock Company
|
|
Date:
|
8/7/2007 8:01:38 PM
|
- they are the ones to call that have the right equipment
|
| Name: |
LifeTime Laker
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Boulder destruction/removal
|
|
Date:
|
8/7/2007 8:29:44 PM
|
Why not just rent a mini ex from RSC on rubber tracks, drive dowm the ramp and dig it up youself? It will cost about $750 to rent the machine for a WEEK or about $150 a day. Very easy to operate, take about half a day to get comfortable on it. By the end of the day it will be fun.
|
| Name: |
rock
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Boulder destruction/removal
|
|
Date:
|
8/7/2007 8:49:08 PM
|
rent a machine and push it out from the ramp.
I wonder if it is at the end of ramp and that big how could you get the boat in even when the water just dropped a few feet.
|
I have seen many folks sink vehicles within 20 feet of the water line, even when the ground looked solid. I have a 4wd tractor and have been stuck more than once. My neighbor had a huge track hoe doing some work a few years ago and that got stuck too....they had to bring in a couple of dozers and several chains to pull it out.
Another thing to consider is the rock's size. A large boulder can weigh several tons and may be too large to move with conventional equipment (most rentals will move a couple thousand pounds at most, and that isn't much when talking boulders). Depending on boulder size, a track hoe on a barge may be the way to go (and I think other companies besides Lake Martin Dock have such equipment) or it may take high explosives for something very large (which sounds like more fun anyway).
|
| Name: |
Pontoonfisher
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Boulder destruction/removal
|
|
Date:
|
8/8/2007 7:09:30 AM
|
Rent a jack hammer
|
| Name: |
Tallyman
-
|
|
| Subject: |
C-4
|
|
Date:
|
8/8/2007 9:02:38 AM
|
Two pounds of C-4, some det cord, a cap and two feet of time fuse should do the trick. Dig a little hole under the boulder, insert the C-4, light the fuse, and have a beer. In 20 seconds your problem should be over.
|
| Name: |
Feb
-
|
|
| Subject: |
C-4
|
|
Date:
|
8/8/2007 9:16:22 AM
|
Don't sit on the boulder while sipping your beer.
|
| Name: |
Osms
-
|
|
| Subject: |
and, you can...
|
|
Date:
|
8/8/2007 10:14:15 AM
|
start building a new dock after the rock pieces and boards from your dock stop falling. LOL
|
| Name: |
BamaBob3
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Boulder destruction/removal
|
|
Date:
|
8/8/2007 4:37:19 PM
|
Take a different approach. In light of the fact that it is on dry land now, lobby for 150 foot piers. Then you could use it as a perch neck deep for drinking your beer....but don't P in the water. Only animals P in the water.
|
|
New Post
Search
Bankhead Lake Topics Forum
Reply
»
Alabama Lakes
»
Bankhead Lake
Login
|
Home
