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Precision Boulder Placement with Excavator and Straps

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POND day 4, Hell breaks lose

What happens here

A mini excavator is used with straps to carefully lift and position another large boulder. Team members assist by guiding the boulder with poles and hands, ensuring precise placement without damaging the liner or surrounding features. This method demonstrates how to handle substantial rocks in tricky spots where direct machine access might be limited.

Goal: Carefully position a large boulder in a challenging location.

Tools and materials

  • Guiding Poles N/A — Manually steering boulders during placement
  • Large Boulder N/A — A key aesthetic and structural element of the pond
  • Lifting Straps N/A — Securing boulders for lifting
  • Mini Excavator Kubota — Lifting and positioning large boulders

What they say

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day boom so the goal with that rock is to turn it get it inside of the pond as a stepping stone hey Alex can you move the stick the transit Rod I think that that could get uh CR Smo this we got scw on [Applause] [Music] you got shorten the strap I guess we go to the back this [Applause] baby come on GG I Turtle for a while crazy dude I haven't want to shorten it get up let's readjust this St and kind of choked off that's good how far can I drive in there way hey Ed how far can I drive into the pond you should be able to drive all the way up onto the plywood that all right Tim you might have to start coming you got to start coming in now hold hold up all right so that's our back side only on way don't get too close that s yeah y y okay hold it so Tim's going to have to probably stop driving where you at might have to reset might have to reset and then come out get the fork on just one fork on the end far enough let's set her down it's digging down so you got to lift high on that side submarine you want me to get if I get over there I can probably musle around that's what Yep this is better than that back out we're [Music] here see what it do where at put your blade on that rock y all right let's try it we'll re bit hold it yeah get a little under [Music] there pretty good I think that all right come straight forward it's got to go that way a little as well is we might to get a plant pocket there got to stay there large step but you want like [Music] right I know what that means come straight come straight towards this rck but we could Pro we could probably next like come like that shape up that better we can still get that liner in there I like that shap shape better but that's not a bad it's a natural rustic I like it [Applause] over here that's good blend like that other big guy there now I got to get this out of here [Music]

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