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Originally Posted by rainman
Know what you mean on the big rocks Bill I ve got some on my place you can't even get out with a dozer.  |
Yeah... I have one at the end of my driveway that is as big as a volkswagen. When the road was widened, they had a big excavator trying to dig the gutter along the side of the road. The excavator had to dig all around it, and then couldn't come close to lifting it to where he wanted to move it. All it could do was roll it, so I told them to just roll it downhill to along side my driveway. Looks pretty neat there. It's about 5'x6'x10' sort of egg shaped. My whole driveway is lined with rocks that average about 3' in diameter, and along the road, the property is bordered by 4-7' rocks. Where my dishes are, there's a big 5' diameter rock, and a bunch of smaller ones. Most of the big rocks are fairly rounded though, because they were deposited by glaciers, but the small rocks where I made my trench were all broken sharp rocks. The rocks up here are one of the reasons we bought the property. We have several back in the woods that are the size of the Volkswagen rock, or even bigger, plus some even bigger ones that are part of ledge/bedrock sticking out. Some stick up 12' or more above ground. Plus, many of the rocks up here are a type of pegmatite (?sp?) that have big chunks of quartz crystals, and interesting kinds of mica and feldspar, plus some granite with veins of igneous rock that flowed into cracks to form neat layers. Really wish I had taken some courses in geology when I was in school. My wife took a course, which is where all my info came from, as I don't know one from another, except for quartz and mica.
But I LIKE ROCKS!
Except when they cut through my coax.