Hello I'm thinking about moving some stones about 100 kg in weight for a distance of 100-200 meter to make a strong bench. No powertools and I am not worlds strongest man! Guess I could handle the weight but a stone isn't easy to secure on a backpack... how would you solve this problem? I'm thinking about some sort of sled and drag them on it on the ground. Rolling the stones on the ground would be very hard work!
How to move stones alone for a distance?
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Lever, sled, car, rolling, hand-winch, cargo strap, truckers' hitch using a garden fork as an anchor... I've tried them all. Mostly, I've used rolling and patience for all but the most awkward or the worst terrain. Having said that, 200m is a bit further than I'm used to.
Can you get hold of a wheelbarrow? If you can push drunkards around in one, it should handle the weight; and it's better suited to rough ground than a pallet truck, engine hoist or supermarket trolley.
Can you get hold of a wheelbarrow? If you can push drunkards around in one, it should handle the weight; and it's better suited to rough ground than a pallet truck, engine hoist or supermarket trolley.
Hi Tjurved, If out in the bush, id go for the sled and just drag the stone.
The best way would be a wheel barrow with a pneumatic tyre for a bit of suspension and bounce over the lumps and bumps. Watch out for thorns though !
Good luck.
The best way would be a wheel barrow with a pneumatic tyre for a bit of suspension and bounce over the lumps and bumps. Watch out for thorns though !
Good luck.
Wayland has an article about Mors Kochanski's flip flop winch on his website somewhere of you want to check that out 
Depends on the hardnest of the ground below the stone you are moving, a couple of pebbles underneath should do the trick, and a lever handle tied to the stone you are moving, and an assistant to move the pebbles as you move along.
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You haven't really given enough information. The distance might not seem far on a level, metalled road but if it's up a 30% incline in a field that's different. I'm with the wheels brigade (car trailer, or wheelbarrow) unless you tell us the territory makes that unsuitable. I carried this house about 50 metres up the garden in my wheelbarrow, about 100kilos at a time. It took a while. I had to carry the garage a little further.
Of course if it's reasonably level ground, then as you're in Sweden if you wait until the winter then a sled might work well.
Have you considered learning to weld?
Got a friend with a horse? Seen designs in Norway for simple sledges which allow/ed horse to pull huge loads of logs.
Eric_Methven
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Lever the stone onto a sheet of plywood, place log rollers underneath and use a SPANISH WINDLASS to pull the plywood along with very little physical effort. You then just need to keep moving the used rollers to the front until you get to where you want to be. This method will probably allow you to move two or three large stones at a time.
Eric
Eric
EdS
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C4 then cement back together the other end.
If no C4 then a petrolium and ammoniun nitrate mix, with the right initiator with do the trick.
If no C4 then a petrolium and ammoniun nitrate mix, with the right initiator with do the trick.
forestwalker
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I did someting like this (probably a bit heavier than 100 kg, but only one fairly flat slab) a few years back. Uneven ground, but fairly flat. Used round pieces of firewood as rollers and simply pulled it along by hand after attaching a rope to it (no great effort, and rigging a windlass would have eaten much more time, in particular since I had to navigate a dense aspen stand.
The wheelbarrow plan fell down on one thing; there was no way to get the rock into it; way too heavy for me to lift, and alone there was no way to "lever" it into the wheelbarrow. A friend and a sufficiently strong handcart (the kind used to move boxes) might have done it.
The wheelbarrow plan fell down on one thing; there was no way to get the rock into it; way too heavy for me to lift, and alone there was no way to "lever" it into the wheelbarrow. A friend and a sufficiently strong handcart (the kind used to move boxes) might have done it.
I read somewhere once some advice from an american farmer...
If you have to move a large heavy object, roll it, if you can't roll it, drag it, if you can't drag it, push it, if you can't push it: burn it.
Obviously no burning the stone but could there be another solution to this.... create a bench with some wooden plank.
Sorry not to be of more useful help....
Grtz Johan
If you have to move a large heavy object, roll it, if you can't roll it, drag it, if you can't drag it, push it, if you can't push it: burn it.
Obviously no burning the stone but could there be another solution to this.... create a bench with some wooden plank.
Sorry not to be of more useful help....
Grtz Johan
Thanks, some clever thinking going on in this thread I gotta say . Half the way is a clearcut and the other half is a moss. The reason I wanna use stones are because they don't rotten and they are sturdy. They also keep the heat from the fire. On the stones I might use some wood...
. Half the way is a clearcut and the other half is a moss. The reason I wanna use stones are because they don't rotten and they are sturdy. They also keep the heat from the fire. On the stones I might use some wood...
Same guy who is mentioned in this earlier reply.
Some very interesting ways he has.
I use these quite a lot, I have five of them rated at 1.5 tonnes, but the chain is only about two metres long. These are useful for longer distances. In a pinch you can use an ordinary chain block to drag things around, they have longer chains than the pull-lifts but they are less convenient to use horizontally.
Stone makes sense if you want your bench to hold some heat. I didn't realize that you wanted it to be hot -- I'm always trying to stop things on and around mine from catching fire!
Stone makes sense if you want your bench to hold some heat. I didn't realize that you wanted it to be hot -- I'm always trying to stop things on and around mine from catching fire!
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