BlancheTuttle
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So I was clearing an area to make some new growing beds and my rake made a weird scraping noise on the dirt. Oh crap, that's not dirt.
This could be a problem as my farm is too small to even have a tractor. I'm going to have to do this by hand. Crap.
Give me a lever long enough and I'll move the world, right? A 12 foot steel pipe ought to do it.
Slide something under it quick before it falls back in!
Almost there...
... almost there...
We did it! Bent a few steel pipes and pulled a couple muscles but now I can plant carrots tomorrow!
cptcr
Hey, do we not @TheBoulder anymore?
4thwalled
TheSoundAWhippedCreamCanMakes
Meandme2
my farm is too small to even have a tractor= Allotment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_(gardening)
teeptheteep
I was worried this was going to be an unexploded bomb or a septic tank. Good job!
BaltimorePolice
rhombusrightangle
Ive hand dug stumps bigger then that.
DamagedDingo
Look like iron root
LaCulpable
Next time light a fire around the rock to get it real hot then pour cold water on it. It will break and make it easier to remove.
ghiiiyref
That's not how gold works lol you'd be better off planting some vegetables like carrots or something.
JerBerDelux
You're supposed to just dig a deeper hole next to the stone and roll it into that hole... worry about it in 100 years when it works back up
houndofcullen
Every time I try to dig a hole in my yard. Every. Time.
VielSpass
https://i.imgflip.com/2k8pob.gif
mossdude8
Wizardstickz
OMG lol wtfff
Sissypool
I love you, you beautiful human you!
Neonbaron
Wtf is a treasure trail
ASuccessfulFailure
It's the hair that starts around your belly button and leads towards your pubes/junk.
DanOrtega
"The road of love", a girl friend of mine called it.
SleeperXib
I've only ever heard it called a happy trail.
DanOrtega
Well, different country, so... :)
elbowdeepinadictator
"Three things happen: I hit you, you hit the ground, I go and fuck your mom again."
RichHammond
"To be fair..."
BtownMountain
To be faaaaaaiiiirrrrr....
Dsharppe
To be faaaaaaaaaaair.
sykoticflaw
Toooo beeee faaaaaaaair.
GiggityGooJustForYou
Grandpa just used dynamite.
wonfungi8206
ZombieDK
Ah, the annual rock harvest. Looks like a blue ribbon winner!
AIComments
Trick for this if a stone is too heavy, just dig a hole next to it and push it in.
anubisfike
It would just pop back up in a few years again. Frost heaving.
Seorise
You shouldn't disturb hibernating boulders.
Sinus23
You're giving me flashbacks from Nam and I never been in Vietnam, a farm however...
Moosupian
Rocks alone in strange places need to be examined to rule out they are a meteorite. Could be a cash cow if so.
BlancheTuttle
It's not alone. New England is full of these from the last glaciers that came through. Early farmers made stone walls with them.
asmpsUnityDog
Could you have dug a much deeper hole next to it and rolled it in. Seems like a lot of work to drag it off somewhere.
AIComments
Fuck whoever poured these
Xenolith166
Better to remove the boulder than make it next year's problem.
whyexactly
But if you ever need to get deeper in the same spot you just made your life harder.
GoliathSkittles
Nah just dig an even deeper hole next to that one.
gandraw
I am simply wondering why explosives weren't involved!
MacClay
You can't just buy them at the general store any more.
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
The answer to that is always “Too much paperwork.”. ALWAYS!
BlancheTuttle
It's a residential neighborhood. Plus I didn't have any handy.
grimbor
Damnit!!
anubisfike
It would just pop back up in a couple of years again. Rocks are moved closer to the surface because of water/ice. Frost heaving.
HughDaHand
not if you bury them below the frost line
anubisfike
How would you accurately measure that and how deep would that be? It seems unreasonably deep.
HughDaHand
That all depends on where you live. Here in Michigan the frost like is 42" which isn't that bad at all.
anubisfike
So you'd dig a hole more than a meter into the ground to dump a rock in it and hope it works out? Rather than making sure it's gone forever?
asmpsUnityDog
Didn't know that, thanks.
UnitConversionBot
12 feet ≈ 3.66 m
the0dile
Nice waves!
TheMagicalUpvoteFearie
How many bananas is that?
Grievuuz
12. He just said?
TheMagicalUpvoteFearie
He said foot, a large banana is 8-9 inch, a foot is 12. Also the joke was https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/banana-for-scale
Grievuuz
r/woosh
XIIV13C100111
More than 7
TheYoungJaywalker
About 16-18
Orr22
In South East Asia, farmers and kids are still finding our cluster bombs so I'd consider myself lucky ?
ID1746
Same in Belgium (no clusterbombs usually, but toxic ones instead among the normal ones). WW1 leftovers (and yes, we still find them daily)
anubisfike
Germany, England, Belgium, France and other parts of Europe that were heavily bombed are, well, still filled with bombs. Berlin, London etc.
GuardsmanMiku
they had to evacuate my (british) uni twice a couple of months ago because they're building a new building and they keep finding bombs
anubisfike
It's really crazy how much of an issue it still is. War really, truly, is hell for everyone. It was 74 years ago! 101 years ago for WW1.
TheBurritoConfederacy
Needs a few good whacks with a sledgehammer.
BlancheTuttle
It's likely solid granite which would take a lot more than a few whacks. Believe me, I've tried on others like it.
SirChadwellHeath
dunewolf
drill hole.. fill hole with explosives.. BOOM goes the rock! (jk)
krugle
Could have slipped a ratchet strap around it and attached a rope to it and a truck, would have saved a lot of effort.
BlancheTuttle
Good thought, but I can't get a truck back there because of where the fence is and how the yard is sloped. And I don't have a truck.
NapoleonDynOmite
What country do you live that you have a farm but not a truck?
BlancheTuttle
Northeastern US. It's a very small farm. Just veggies, no livestock.
CeaselesslyJesting
Probably could have used a maul and broke it up, it's probably halfway to saprolite depending on where your at.
BlancheTuttle
In my area these are usually solid granite. They don't crack easily.
Gaehhn
How about splitting it using a stone drill, beech dowels and water?
BlancheTuttle
Not worth the effort and expense. It was just easier to wedge it out and roll it 10 feet to a pathway
ReginaKasteen
A henchman with a double-bladed lightsaber probably *would* make quick work of a rock.
ReginaKasteen
Unless the rock happens to be named Obi-wan, naturally.
narniasreal
Is there good money in being a farmer?
KillingTlme
Yes, if you can get the government paperwork signed for your bail out because of tariffs and natural disasters making your crops worthless.
BlancheTuttle
Or if you grow high value specialty veggies for sale locally. At the farmers market I get $3/bunch for carrots, beets, scallions, radishes..
BlancheTuttle
And $3/pint for cherry tomatoes, baby squash/zucchini
BlancheTuttle
There is if you do it right.
CeaselesslyJesting
Did you get your high tunnel cost shared through an Eqip contract?
BlancheTuttle
Not shared, completely covered through an NRCS grant. Made a HUGE difference in what I can do.
CeaselesslyJesting
Oh gotcha, it's nice to see people actually using their high tunnels like they are supposed to. You wouldn't believe the waste of those.
BlancheTuttle
Yeah, it drives me nuts when I see someone who puts 5 rows of tomatoes in a 30ft wide house for a few months and nothing else.
taroband
Don’t you wonder how such large rocks can end up in the middle of a dirt field? Like, ... how the heck did they end up there?
DoctorDerk
some are due to the ice age lifting up boulders and dropping them great distance far away.
Richter12x2
Bored Missouri teenagers get high and bury rocks in random fields just to be jerks.
404GravitassNotFound
Hyero
They come up to the surface over the winter due to ice forming under the rock and pushing them upwards.
rutarian
This. Grew up on a farm. My most hated chore every year was when we had to pick up rocks in the spring so they didn't damage the equipment.
rutarian
Basically had to walk every section of the fields behind a tractor and put them in a wagon. Most farms a pile or two of rocks somewhere.
rutarian
*have a pile somewhere where they dump the rocks
Ancientmariner52
There's a place in China where they leave all their unwanted rocks. The rocks slooowly sink out of sight, and then, years later ...
DeathLemons
I hear Detroit is rock city. So probs from there.
BlancheTuttle
NH is called the Granite State for a reason!
ArtemisFolly
As the ground freezes and thaws each year, the rocks get pushed up from deeper underground. That's why new ones appear each year.
tallquasi
Two words: Frost Heave
Amish0ctopus
A Pioneer must've forgotten where they parked.
HelloToe
Fargus57
Roaming herds of prehistoric trebuchets.
LokiShade
Wooly trebuchets.
BlancheTuttle
This is the most underrated comment on here
NickRivieraMD
On road trips with my dad when we used to pass fields with several very large rocks in em, he would tell me that glaciers deposited them.
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
Yes, & ground thrust brings up dozens each year on our acreage. We had to buy a backhoe for our tractor to deal with some the bigger ones.
NickRivieraMD
IS it true? Dunno.
boatymcboatfaceplant
Tis.
anubisfike
If you live in northern Europe or northern USA, Canada, north western Russia then yes, that's exactly it.
tuxedobob
He was probably right.
orNot
These are called erratics! They were deposited by huge ice sheets usually around 12,000 years ago (if in N. America at least)
GentlemanScientist
My guess is that it got left there when the last ice age ended.
teeptheteep
This rock was just mind its own buisness remember the good times in the Pleiocene and this person just digs it up.
teeptheteep
It's like that episode of Futurma "What was like being in that hole for a thousand years?" "I was enjoying it until you guys showed up!"