Finally got the one that got away!
May 29, 2014 7:38:40 GMT -5
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on May 29, 2014 7:38:40 GMT -5
So this story started last November on my last trip to the cottage for the year to shut it down for the winter. I was taking the kids out for one last ride on the 4-wheelers and during a break we had stopped in the middle of the woods so I wondered off a bit into the woods off the trail and that’s when I noticed the nice looking pudding stone popping out of the ground. We did not have any tools with us and we needed to hit the Ferry to go home in less than an hour so at that time I just grabbed a piece that had broken off and marked the location on my GPS knowing I could not get back till spring. I should add that our cottage is a 350 mile drive plus a ferry ride so it’s not something we do on a normal weekend.
Here’s a picture I took of it when I left it last year
This is the piece that had broken off and a picture of the slabs that came from that piece.
After searching three times last weekend with the GPS I finally relocated it but that was the easy part. This time I brought a 12 pound sledge hammer, a 60” pry bar and shovels and soon found out this thing was pretty big. The area it was located was not possible to bring a trailer into and there was no way this could be lifted onto the 4-wheeler so I whacked it a few times with the sledge to try to lighten it. After tiring of that it was still a 28” x 26” x 18” boulder. I knew I would regret leaving it there so as a last ditch effort I rolled it out of the woods into the trail and wrapped a 3” wide tow strap around it and pulled it in 4-wheel drive lo gear through some deep spring time mud holes and up a long 30 degree rocky incline. The final step was to roll it onto a tilt bed snowmobile trailer for the trip home. All in all from the time I started digging it was about 2.5 hrs to get out of the trail.
Here’s a shot of one rocky portion of the trail it had to come up.
Here’s a shot of it all messed up from dragging it over a mile. And the pieces next to it are what I broke off trying to lighten it.
And this is its final resting place all cleaned up. Not sure if anyone else thinks its worth all that work but after I had so much invested it had to come home with me.
one more at a different angle
Thanks for looking,
Chuck
Here’s a picture I took of it when I left it last year
This is the piece that had broken off and a picture of the slabs that came from that piece.
After searching three times last weekend with the GPS I finally relocated it but that was the easy part. This time I brought a 12 pound sledge hammer, a 60” pry bar and shovels and soon found out this thing was pretty big. The area it was located was not possible to bring a trailer into and there was no way this could be lifted onto the 4-wheeler so I whacked it a few times with the sledge to try to lighten it. After tiring of that it was still a 28” x 26” x 18” boulder. I knew I would regret leaving it there so as a last ditch effort I rolled it out of the woods into the trail and wrapped a 3” wide tow strap around it and pulled it in 4-wheel drive lo gear through some deep spring time mud holes and up a long 30 degree rocky incline. The final step was to roll it onto a tilt bed snowmobile trailer for the trip home. All in all from the time I started digging it was about 2.5 hrs to get out of the trail.
Here’s a shot of one rocky portion of the trail it had to come up.
Here’s a shot of it all messed up from dragging it over a mile. And the pieces next to it are what I broke off trying to lighten it.
And this is its final resting place all cleaned up. Not sure if anyone else thinks its worth all that work but after I had so much invested it had to come home with me.
one more at a different angle
Thanks for looking,
Chuck