How to get rid of concrete block

[Mark W.]

take a piece of string wet it run it through some fine sand and with someone elses help pull it back and forth across the block like it was a cross cut saw. TYou will have to replace the fine sand and the string every so often but with a little persistence you can cut it in half. The start work on it 90 degree to that cut and soon you will have 4 pieces. Keep going until you can pickup a piece and toss it in a pickup.

Worked to build the Pyramids

 

[CombatMechanic]

take a piece of string wet it run it through some fine sand and with someone elses help pull it back and forth across the block like it was a cross cut saw. TYou will have to replace the fine sand and the string every so often but with a little persistence you can cut it in half. The start work on it 90 degree to that cut and soon you will have 4 pieces. Keep going until you can pickup a piece and toss it in a pickup.

Worked to build the Pyramids

Best answer.

 

[cigars]

name it "Hillary" because it won't freaking go away.

 

[ZigZagZeke]

I have no clue how much it weighs, from the picture it looks prettt big, but I imagine getting 4-6 young strong guys to lift into a truck then just push it out after would work. You're the one asking for ideas, so good luck...

Pulley systems were invented just for problems like this...

Don't do the pickup truck thing...

 

[CombatMechanic]

Don't do the pickup truck thing...

I wouldn't in a tiny truck like that. I also have no clue how much it's weighs. First it was 1000 then 2000 lbs, the picture is also really far off.

 

[slimmer13]

Ever seen Pale Rider? Remember the boulder in the stream?

 

[Oregonhunter5]

Saved by my neighbor. Old fella. His old old ford tractor and some handy thinking and we buried it!

 

[Member 34319]

I wasn't sure what to expect clicking to look at what this thread was about.

Glad to say I'm thoroughly happy with what I found!

On a serious note, I'd start digging a hole under it. Get it big enough on one side so when I finally gave it a nudge it would fall in.

 

[CHLChris]

And something I've been learning recently...get as big an excavator as you can rent!

 

[woody06]

Cured concrete weighs about 150 pounds per cubic foot. That will get you pretty close to the weight if you can measure and calculate the volume.

 

[partsed]

Get the State of Hawaii to come pick it up and drop it over the largest lava vent on the Big Island to plug the vent.

Save @bolus Save @bolus

 

[308]

old light pole base. Needs to go. My old dairy tractor won't budge it! Gotta be 1,000lbs.

Rebar. Rock. It's got it all.

How would you guys do it?

It old and hard hell!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been trying to be cheap. Jackhammer won't touch it.

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Paint it gold and charge people to see the largest gold nugget in the universe.

 

[SA Shooter]

They make a demolition expanding grout for jobs like this. You can get it at Home Depot.

You get a long mortar bit, drill some holes per the instructions, mix, pour and wait.

Dexpan 44 lb. Box Type 3 (23F-50F) Expansive Demolition Grout for Concrete Rock Breaking and Removal-DEXPAN44BOX3 - The Home Depot

 

[jbett98]

Plant a couple of bushes around it.

 

[Siglvr]

Do you have a rotohammer? Cause I have a cheapo method that involves drilling a few holes and using expanding cement that will easily do it if it's a rock. Ifn it's cement, maybe not.

Edit, SA shooter just posted the stuff right there.

 

[Camelfilter]

Errrr....I do believe OP is sorted....

Saved by my neighbor. Old fella. His old old ford tractor and some handy thinking and we buried it!

 

[EPS]

JUST CHOOT IT AND CHOOT IT AGAIN AND AGAIN LOL .


SHOOT IT

 

[Siglvr]

Doh, watched the video but it was Gold Rush. I understand that the thing got buried in a hole. Congrats. Done.

 

[CoastRange57]

We used to run into those erratics (rocks) from the Missoula floods when we were grading / trenching for golf courses or sports fields. My underground obstacle clause in our contracts gave us a change order to take care of it. Most of the time we cleared around it, dug a deep azz hole and then used a 150 hp excavator to push it in the hole. We hit a big one, one time that was about 2 feet down and the size of a VW bug.

Used the big excavator to dig a 12 foot deep hole, and it took that excavator and a D8 dozer to move that rock into the hole. When it hit bottom, probably set off the seismograph at OSU in Corvallis. I hit about 5 of them of various sizes over 25 years in the business.

 

[jbett98]

One question not answered, how did it get there?