How do I move this rock?

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rossyl

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1,210 posts

182 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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This rock, we had 4 builders, with straps around the bar, attempting to lift it and they could barely get it off the ground.

It needs to be moved from it's current position, to the bed directly above it.

So up, over the wall, and put in the bed.

Any ingenious ideas. This needs to be done by hand.

I was thinking an engine lift, but it would just tip forward.

Thanks






Gixer968CS

748 posts

103 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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I'd get down your local hire shop. You need some sort of block and tackle on a hefty frame. Something like this:

https://www.bigdug.co.uk/workshop-flooring-c348/wo...

Or, make a ramp and roll it up??

PurpleTurtle

8,178 posts

159 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Dynamite flames

Joking apart I am not sure but wish you luck.

PurpleTurtle

8,178 posts

159 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Actually, something like this perhaps?

https://youtu.be/5iTjDam45rw?si=PySrhUaua1IjfobG

Bonefish Blues

31,766 posts

238 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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What would Dave do?

randlemarcus

13,622 posts

246 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Lift and orient the rock so its the right way round, as turning it in the bed will be a PITA
Lift and slide a paver or similar underneath
Build a tower to a height that will allow you to slide the rock along to the flowerbed
Pop a scaff plank on there
Lift and slide a jack of some nature under . You may need to figure out a way of fixing the rock a foot high, and then moving the jack up and repeating
Get the rock to the plank, and lift and slide along

Rusty Old-Banger

5,722 posts

228 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Lower the wall, roll the rock on to the bed behind the lowered wall, then raise the wall thumbup

Otherwise you need 5 builders...

Radec

4,914 posts

62 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Give Eddie Hall a call.

JimM169

690 posts

137 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Farm jack under the bar to lift the rock, build up a platform as it's being raised and then slide onto the bed.

otolith

61,428 posts

219 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

Heathwood

2,844 posts

217 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Does it need to remain in 1 piece? If not, could you break it up into a few pieces then manually lift the pieces out?

Tango13

9,475 posts

191 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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'Give me a lever long enough and a pivot strong enough and I shall move the earth'

If the end of the bar nearest the wall is overlapping the wall the get the longest bit of scaffold pole you can find on the other end of the bar and you'll have plenty of leverage to lift the rock with the wall as the pivot. Every time you lift it slide a pallet underneath before going back for another lift and another pallet etc until it's level with the wall

Then you should be able to slide the rock off the pallets onto the flowerbed


Blib

45,970 posts

212 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Bonefish Blues said:
What would Dave do?
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pinchmeimdreamin

10,391 posts

233 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Lots of balloons and a bottle of helium wink

Bonefish Blues

31,766 posts

238 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Tango13 said:
'Give me a lever long enough and a pivot strong enough and I shall move the earth'

If the end of the bar nearest the wall is overlapping the wall the get the longest bit of scaffold pole you can find on the other end of the bar and you'll have plenty of leverage to lift the rock with the wall as the pivot. Every time you lift it slide a pallet underneath before going back for another lift and another pallet etc until it's level with the wall

Then you should be able to slide the rock off the pallets onto the flowerbed
Fat lad and a stepladder would usefully speed this process up

The Three D Mucketeer

6,501 posts

242 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Hire a Genie Lift ?
But try and calculate the weight based on it's volume , assuming density of say 3 grams / cubic centimetre .

Edited by The Three D Mucketeer on Thursday 30th May 17:33

Rusty Old-Banger

5,722 posts

228 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Do you want to keep the rock? If not, then dig underneath it and bury it.

Mr Pointy

12,527 posts

174 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Was this one of those cases where your wife changed her mind about where it should go?

OutInTheShed

11,255 posts

41 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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Chinook?

You can do anything with enough jacks, scaffold poles and stout bits of wood.

Lots of potential for damage and injury though.

Promised Land

5,111 posts

224 months

Thursday 30th May 2024
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JimM169 said:
Farm jack under the bar to lift the rock, build up a platform as it's being raised and then slide onto the bed.
Exactly how I’d do it, farm jack on A frames, lift it, slide planks under it and keep repeating to get it above the wall.

Alternative is build a scaffold frame with a block and tackle on it.