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Twice now I've rushed home from work, expecting rocks to have moved.
Twice I've gotten home to find the boulders still sunning quietly in the backyard.
Yesterday, the rock company guy called to say that his guys had been out and had decided they couldn't move the rocks with just two people.
Today, the owner came out, still with just one other person, took one look at the boulders and decided that they couldn't move them either.
*sigh*
So now they're coming back later in the week with the Bobcat (which would be amusing if it wasn't so expensive, because I told them that they'd delivered them with the Bobcat when I bought them several years ago). They'll scoop up boulders (they think the big one here weighs close to 500 lbs... I'm not remembering anything being over 400 in that lot, but I've slept since then so who knows) and then haul the boulders from here, the river rocks that ring the firepit itself, the two new boulders and the Bobcat all up to the new house and put them in place. This will happen... later. Not today or tomorrow. Retrieval of existing rocks may happen Thursday, but they said they could wait and deliver them next week if I needed them to (as he put it, "They don't need feedin' or babysittin' so they can wait a few days at the shop if they need to").
Oh, and another thing... the two new boulders, which he'd guesstimated at 1000 lbs and 500 lbs respectively? Deceptively heavier than they looked. 2700 lbs for the big one and 1200 for the smaller one. Eep!
At least with the Bobcat we'll have a chance of putting the big one exactly where I want it (and right-side up), since there'd be no real finesse if they were just dumping it off the back of the truck.
Having failed (twice) at moving boulders, I'm going to go move dishes and bottles instead. I have to run up to the new house, so I'm going to pack a load of kitchen stuff and take it with me.
Twice I've gotten home to find the boulders still sunning quietly in the backyard.
Yesterday, the rock company guy called to say that his guys had been out and had decided they couldn't move the rocks with just two people.
Today, the owner came out, still with just one other person, took one look at the boulders and decided that they couldn't move them either.
*sigh*
So now they're coming back later in the week with the Bobcat (which would be amusing if it wasn't so expensive, because I told them that they'd delivered them with the Bobcat when I bought them several years ago). They'll scoop up boulders (they think the big one here weighs close to 500 lbs... I'm not remembering anything being over 400 in that lot, but I've slept since then so who knows) and then haul the boulders from here, the river rocks that ring the firepit itself, the two new boulders and the Bobcat all up to the new house and put them in place. This will happen... later. Not today or tomorrow. Retrieval of existing rocks may happen Thursday, but they said they could wait and deliver them next week if I needed them to (as he put it, "They don't need feedin' or babysittin' so they can wait a few days at the shop if they need to").
Oh, and another thing... the two new boulders, which he'd guesstimated at 1000 lbs and 500 lbs respectively? Deceptively heavier than they looked. 2700 lbs for the big one and 1200 for the smaller one. Eep!
At least with the Bobcat we'll have a chance of putting the big one exactly where I want it (and right-side up), since there'd be no real finesse if they were just dumping it off the back of the truck.
Having failed (twice) at moving boulders, I'm going to go move dishes and bottles instead. I have to run up to the new house, so I'm going to pack a load of kitchen stuff and take it with me.
