I'll second that scrub, very nice line up! I wonder if they would notice if one went missing
Hi queenslander, it's kinda a long story. Bare with me lol. I brought the neighbouring farm off my cousin which has a hill with an old pit, say 20-30 years ago all the easy stuff on the top was removed. Once it got to hard going ( hd21 ) they moved through the fence into the neighbours ( boundary fence basically runs over the top of the hill ) and started again and this has been the local pit ever since. My mate owns the pit through the fence and has done for about 10 years, he isn't overly excited about selling gravel which has me beat? $$$ I think. Anyway when the shire used to use it they mainly blasted it and than had it crushed. Now where my problems start are.
1 there is also a road over the hill and just the other side of the road another mate of mine has just built a lovely new brick home ( about 350m away) , so without a bit more research I think I'm gonna be out of luck on the blasting front.
2 the rock isn't what I'd consider hard, probably fairly soft I think as rock goes. That lead me to thinking a big machine might do a pretty good job of smashing it up while ripping and pushing ( track rolling I guess ).
3 big tractors don't seem to bring half the asking price of smaller ones around here.
4 I have an old hd9 that would do the job if it was blasted, might take a while but
5 for some reason I'd rather buy my own machine and do it instead of paying someone else but this might not be viable. There is potential to sell a fair bit if I can dig it up, So I'm realy unsure at this point what to do.
I asked my mate about it he said walk the old allis up there and see what happens, he suggested that would give me a good indication what will happen. Ie if it can rip it and it pulls out chunks that won't break up that chances are that a big dozer is only going to do the same on a bigger scale, and looking in the neighbouring pit this is probably true. I'm unsure about that but he works for an earthmoving company so he should have some idea. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'll take some Pictures of both pits and the rock and mabe you and others mabe able to give some advice, thanks neil