So Who Knows The Answer To This Question?
#31
07-30-2007, 10:11 PM
Diesel Bomber
#32
07-30-2007, 11:07 PM
K, so that might get it done there Bow! Even if not, cool vid!
IF you don't want to rent teh equipment you need, take a lesson from the old school, like WAY old school.
Figure out where you want to fracture it. Snap a chalk line or use orange ground paint. Every 6-8 inches use a hammer drill and drill a hone about as deep as you can. Get some wood rod the same size as the hole. Drive teh rod into the holes all the way to the bottom. Now, you need to get the wood WET, like it needs to absorb alot if water. Maybe set a sprinkler up to spary on it for a few hours. The wood will swell and in theory, crack the rock. This is how the Egyptians used to break off slabs of rock. Might be a cool little science experiment to get the local kids into . . . . .
IF you don't want to rent teh equipment you need, take a lesson from the old school, like WAY old school.
Figure out where you want to fracture it. Snap a chalk line or use orange ground paint. Every 6-8 inches use a hammer drill and drill a hone about as deep as you can. Get some wood rod the same size as the hole. Drive teh rod into the holes all the way to the bottom. Now, you need to get the wood WET, like it needs to absorb alot if water. Maybe set a sprinkler up to spary on it for a few hours. The wood will swell and in theory, crack the rock. This is how the Egyptians used to break off slabs of rock. Might be a cool little science experiment to get the local kids into . . . . .
#33
07-31-2007, 02:03 AM
K, so that might get it done there Bow! Even if not, cool vid!
IF you don't want to rent teh equipment you need, take a lesson from the old school, like WAY old school.
Figure out where you want to fracture it. Snap a chalk line or use orange ground paint. Every 6-8 inches use a hammer drill and drill a hone about as deep as you can. Get some wood rod the same size as the hole. Drive teh rod into the holes all the way to the bottom. Now, you need to get the wood WET, like it needs to absorb alot if water. Maybe set a sprinkler up to spary on it for a few hours. The wood will swell and in theory, crack the rock. This is how the Egyptians used to break off slabs of rock. Might be a cool little science experiment to get the local kids into . . . . .
IF you don't want to rent teh equipment you need, take a lesson from the old school, like WAY old school.
Figure out where you want to fracture it. Snap a chalk line or use orange ground paint. Every 6-8 inches use a hammer drill and drill a hone about as deep as you can. Get some wood rod the same size as the hole. Drive teh rod into the holes all the way to the bottom. Now, you need to get the wood WET, like it needs to absorb alot if water. Maybe set a sprinkler up to spary on it for a few hours. The wood will swell and in theory, crack the rock. This is how the Egyptians used to break off slabs of rock. Might be a cool little science experiment to get the local kids into . . . . .
Where the hell did the ancient Egyptians come up with a chalk line, orange paint and a hammer drill. You been test drivin trucks in a closed up garage againt, haven't ya.
#34
07-31-2007, 06:45 AM
Diesel Bomber
it wasn't the egyptians, i think the show was on the pagans. how they moved huge blocks.... i dunno may have been the Greeks? i sat around sunday and watched a ton of the history channel
is what they did was. they took the block and incased it in with 4 wood sections to make the block round so they could roll it.
#35
07-31-2007, 11:26 AM
K, so that might get it done there Bow! Even if not, cool vid!
IF you don't want to rent teh equipment you need, take a lesson from the old school, like WAY old school.
Figure out where you want to fracture it. Snap a chalk line or use orange ground paint. Every 6-8 inches use a hammer drill and drill a hone about as deep as you can. Get some wood rod the same size as the hole. Drive teh rod into the holes all the way to the bottom. Now, you need to get the wood WET, like it needs to absorb alot if water. Maybe set a sprinkler up to spary on it for a few hours. The wood will swell and in theory, crack the rock. This is how the Egyptians used to break off slabs of rock. Might be a cool little science experiment to get the local kids into . . . . .
IF you don't want to rent teh equipment you need, take a lesson from the old school, like WAY old school.
Figure out where you want to fracture it. Snap a chalk line or use orange ground paint. Every 6-8 inches use a hammer drill and drill a hone about as deep as you can. Get some wood rod the same size as the hole. Drive teh rod into the holes all the way to the bottom. Now, you need to get the wood WET, like it needs to absorb alot if water. Maybe set a sprinkler up to spary on it for a few hours. The wood will swell and in theory, crack the rock. This is how the Egyptians used to break off slabs of rock. Might be a cool little science experiment to get the local kids into . . . . .
The same idea applies to using water... drill your holes (as many as you can in a line across it) and fill them with water this January and let them freeze repeatedly...keep the water full.
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Hammer drills were alot cheaper back then...
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#36
07-31-2007, 11:32 AM
Thats a kool idea and it would be interesting to try....but i like the explosives idea better...even them egyptians would have used gunpowder and a fuse in a heartbeat over wet sticks...
The same idea applies to using water... drill your holes (as many as you can in a line across it) and fill them with water this January and let them freeze repeatedly...keep the water full.
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True Value Ace Hardware...where else?
Hammer drills were alot cheaper back then...
The same idea applies to using water... drill your holes (as many as you can in a line across it) and fill them with water this January and let them freeze repeatedly...keep the water full.
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AutoMerged DoublePost
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True Value Ace Hardware...where else?
Hammer drills were alot cheaper back then...
#37
07-31-2007, 01:25 PM
ok here is the problem. i have a very large boulder in my driveway that i want gone. i have a med size old backhoe but it can not move it. i have tried a 110v jackhammer , pounding it with a sledge hammer , driving a steel wedge into a crack , air chissel and nothing seems to work...then i was thinking about the rocks around my fire pit how they are all cracking from the heat of the bonfires...if i get a torpeido heater and heat the rock up super hot and they dump a cooler of ice water or hit it with a co2 fire ext. do yas thing it would break it?.....or do you have another way to break it?
#39
07-31-2007, 02:30 PM
DO NOT HEAT IT AND THEN SUPER COOL IT!!! :eek: Depending on where you are in PA that is either a sandstone or dolomite both of which will explode when heated and supercooled. You can have it demo'ed with shaped charges and your house will never know what happened.
#40
08-13-2007, 02:52 PM
Diesel Bomber
here yah go, this might take care of it
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/599982...make_thermite/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/599982...make_thermite/
