How do I move this rock?

[PurpleTurtle]

What's the rock made of OP? Is it concrete? Is that why there is a metal bar running through it?

Can you not jus take a jackhammer to it and break it into smaller pieces, or are you wanting to keep it as some sort of decorative feature?

[wolfracesonic]

Do you know how to build a trebuchet, OP?

[Electronicpants]

[fouroaks]

Build a floating platform under rock and then flood the area?

[Dave_V6]

Get who ever put it where it is now to move it slightly.

[MrBig]

Surely you could do that with a jack, an engine hoist and a load pallets/blocks of wood/bricks? Lift a few inches at a time, blocks underneath rock or under the metal bar and just go up incrementally?

[Rayny]

Simply pop it into a lathe, round off all the edges- Then just roll it into the desired place.

[ChocolateFrog]

Any estimate on weight?

Looks like it could be granite and therefore very heavy, maybe 500/600kg?

I don't think I'd trust an engine hoist with that amount of weight.

[toasty]

Just lift it, you great Jessie!

[DodgyGeezer]

ChocolateFrog said:

Any estimate on weight?

Looks like it could be granite and therefore very heavy, maybe 500/600kg?

I don't think I'd trust an engine hoist with that amount of weight.

that'd make it about the same weight as a Big Block V8 so an engine hoist should be ok

[dxg]

Leave the rock where it is. Move everything else.

[Sporky]

I'm surprised that with all the talk if scaffold and scaffold boards, no-one's just pointed out that all you need is one scaffolder.

[DonkeyApple]

I certainly wouldn't be fannying about trying to lift it. Doubled up scaffold boards and drag it up with straps. And if the boards look like they're bowing too much just puts some bricks under to support.

[gotoPzero]

Yep. I would actually drag it forward first to get less of an angle on the boards.

[Fastpedeller]

A long aluminium ladder. One end of ladder in 'area of drop', ropes around rock and onto a ladder rung. Lift long end of ladder and get it near vertical then cut rope. The leverage may be such that you have to raise the long end 15 ft above the ground - that could be the failure of this idea

[DonkeyApple]

gotoPzero said:

Yep. I would actually drag it forward first to get less of an angle on the boards.

Yup. It was a good enough solution for the Egyptians and Romans. Although with the current weather it would be advisable to wear some trousers.

[Ledaig]

I take it that's a water feature type rock.

I've previously shifted something similar - but a little larger during a house move.
Some of the above suggestions are worth listening to.

I managed to move mine using a combination of a farm jack and long pieces of wood. With this method, I could move it anywhere I wanted with ease (needed to as I did it on my own), including over/onto a pond liner to it's final position.

The key difference you have is the height you need to lift it. One thing I did as it needed to move into storage for a while, was to construct a decent pallet, a standard pallet would not take the weight. Once on this and strapped down, you can move the pallet, not the rock as such. This makes it much more controllable and less risk of damage.

If you build a pallet and move the rock onto it (should be easy), you can then do whatever is necessary to incrementally lift it using chocks to the height to get it clear of the wall.
Moving it on from there with levers and a jack to its final position will be easy.

[Bluevanman]

https://www.wellerhire.co.uk/tool-hire/mini-excava...

[Sporky]

I showed my best beloved this, and she said "has anyone asked how it got there?"

[wolfracesonic]

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire…Neil Chambers.