Breaking rock with Nupla 20 pound sledgehammer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2018
- Breaking a rock with a 20 pound sledge. I named this hammer Encouragement because it "encourages" the rocks to break apart, and also as a pun for the cardiovascular exertion from swinging it.
Nupla part number 27201 (Catalog number BD-20-36SG)
March 9th/10th, 2018 - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
That honestly looks like lots of fun
You honestly cannot imagine how much fun it is. : D Breaking rock is one of my favorite things to do in the entire world. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
When I was 15, I was using a sledgehammer to break a rock, at one of my strikes the pieces of broken rock blew at full speed towards my thigh, I searched this video today at 21 to learn.
Yep, there are definitely fragments that go flying like shrapnel. Shin guards and safety glasses are good ideas. And keep your mouth closed (and lips shut) when the hammer hits! On the bright side, the fragments that are sufficiently light to go fast aren't sufficiently heavy to do much more than cut you superficially, and the heavy fragments go too slowly to hurt you more than some pain and bruising... I've got a little bleeder on my nose at 5:24, but I think the youtube video resolution is too low for it to be visible.
21 is a great time to be alive, both for manual labor and for living in general. Enjoy being alive, and have fun breaking rock! Thanks for watching!
Pretty sure there’s nothing in this world a man can’t move with a sledgie, a burk bar, a come-along and enough determination. Keep it up brother. 👍
Thank you! And thanks for watching!
The most useful video on yt
All you people keep saying his swing is bad, can you not see that he’s not trying to break the rock in months by wasting his energy and then taking a break after 10 swings? I’m not going into depth and I’m no expert but it’s not rocket science to see that he making the sledge do the work and not his whole body and arms, all he is doing is swimming the hammer above his head and letting the weight of the hammer do the rest of the work like it should! If he swung it like you guys did then he would be forcing the hammer down as hard as he could ruining his wrists and wasting 5x the energy, I reckon this man could beat any of you guys in a speed and endurance contest
Thank you, sir, for saying in one paragraph what took me five pages, single spaced. : D
I learnt the hard way and pulled a mussel in my shoulder and back. Hahahha let the tool do the work hahahah
Well i don't know about all that. The only credit i give him, he's swinging 20 lbs. He could of done the same with a 10 lber. Old man once showed me swinging a hammer is nothing but rhythm and momentum. If you ain't got momentum in your swing you're going to kill yourself. He should of used a 10.
Why the hell am I watching this?! How did I get here?! TH-cam strikes again..
Welcome! : D Thanks for watching!
I actually searched "smashing rocks with a sledgehammer" and these videos did not disappoint. I think I may have found an awesome new hobby.
@@grimeyhonkyracing3938 Rock breaking is totally awesome, it's literally one of my favorite activities in the entire world! It's like splitting firewood but in three dimensions, which makes it much more physically challenging and mentally interesting. It's awesome exercise, and it's actually useful (unlike pounding a sledge into a tire). I highly recommend it! If you're just starting out breaking rock, swinging an 8 pound sledge for an hour or so will probably tire you out, but the more weight you can get in the hammer the more rock you can break. Definitely wear PPE (shin/knee guards, high-top steel toe boots, and safety glasses at a minimum, but honestly a cup and a mouthguard wouldn't be overkill) and start on small rocks so you can learn how rocks break before trying huge ones. I like the Nupla hammer a lot and it has its virtues, but the Wilton BASH sledgehammer product line features fantastic vibration-reduction handles which are absolutely incredibly great. If you don't know what you're doing in terms of swinging form and strategic approach then breaking rocks can be a frustrating and truly backbreaking undertaking, but once you train the right muscles and techniques you'll be dismantling boulders! Cheers and best wishes, thanks for finding my channel!
@@thepowertoact hey thanks for the info! Much appreciated!!🙏
You rock, man!!
Your pun is amazing and underappreciated
watching this makes my tendons hurt (tendinitis ;( ).
your endurance is crazy.
I'm going to buy one of those hammers when I get done watching this video.
Nice job!
Hi there, thanks for watching! But actually, I would personally recommend the WIlton BASH 20 pound 36" handle sledge over this one. It's much more durable, it's a little bit heavier, and its handle made of spring steel and vulcanized rubber reduces vibration tremendously (which is of course great for breaking rocks). This Nupla hammer is the one I started out with, so I wanted to make a video with it first, but the Wilton hammer is far and away superior in my opinion. I just checked and the Wilton sledge is $155 on Amazon right now, which is a great deal for the quality you get. Have fun breaking rocks!
@@thepowertoact Yup,you are right, I checked that one out as well.
Thanks!
Thanks to this video i was able to choose the proper sledge. Thanx for the vid.
Oh no! This isn't my favorite hammer!
If you're serious, I hope you haven't bought the Nupla hammer yet! It's a great tool, so if you've purchased it don't worry. But, there's one I like even more, I just haven't made a video of it yet!
It's the Wilton BASH 20 pound hammer with a 36" handle. Amazon ASIN# B006MGMNTW, also available from cpowilton.com (but a little more expensive there right now).
Again, both are great tools, but I'd go with the Wilton BASH.
My apologies!
@@thepowertoact Which is your favorite?
@@kalo93406 Hands down the Wilton BASH 20 pounder. It's one of the best tools I've ever owned! It's worth every penny of its $200 MSRP, but if you wait around and keep your eye out you can get it for less. I got my second one for $95. Thanks for watching!
@@thepowertoact I was trying to use a 6 pounder to break up 27 inch wide 5 inch concrete portion of a long driveway encroching on my property. Ended up getting a 12 pounder at harbor freight, which for now is doing what I need. Definitely working better than the 6. At 59 I'm in fairly good shape, but swinging a 20 lb sledge might be a bit much for me! I use a bottle jack to lift up the concrete, very helpful. Admire your tenacity!
Every rock strike looks like a rocket due to launch or liquid sublimating. I love it!
One thing for sure about particles. They break down when stressed. There is no anti-matter, only particles contacting while spinning opposite the other. They break down on contact.
If you can would you be able to find and demonstrate a wedge splitting hammer I believe they are about 12lbs.
A maul? Those are mostly used for wood.
Hard,hard work....good job
Damn Bam Bam! You turned that into Pebbles!
Super curious what you call that chain hand winch thing you attached to a tree to flip the rock. I need one of those!!
That's a kind of winch called a ratcheting cable puller, people call them "come-a-longs" in the vernacular around here. It's rated to about a 1500 pounds pull. You can get one for about $25, or maybe double that if you want a higher quality one. McMaster.com sells them:
www.mcmaster.com/winches/ratchet-pullers/
If I was rigging up a tree to fell it or if I was moving a larger rock, I'd have used a griphoist, which is a much better tool but is about $400 used or $1500 new. Thanks for watching and commenting!
what workout to do as a beginner to be able to use hammer to break rocks? with least harm and injury to myself, and what kind of hammer or sledgehammer to use for least harm and most damage, and how to use the hammer: how to hold it, how to hammer the rock
Just hammer the rock with 8lb and move up you will move fast
Amazing job!
Wouldn't a pickaxe be better and concentrate the force in a smaller area? Just wondering. Always interested to learn what other people experience is. I've never really broken boulders so I wouldn't know.
No, that wouldn't be as good for this type and size of rock. I think a pickaxe is better for softer rock where you can keep hitting in the same place with the point and basically dig a hole into it that way. To break rocks like this, you want to have a big impact that puts the rock under shear stress (basically trying to bend it) to create and propagate cracks, then you use the big steel lever bar to wedge and pry the pieces apart along those cracks. At least, that's what my experience has taught me! Thanks for watching! Breaking rock is fun, worth trying if you get the chance!
What a great way to spend a sunny afternoon.
Eeeps, wait until you see my next woodsplitting video... Thanks for watching!
was considering doing this myself, but MAN does it look exhausting!
Beats staring at a screen. What's wrong with exhaustion? Hard work keeps your mind and body strong.
Man you deserve more likes ❤👍👍....
Thanks man, just do your part and that's fine with me. : ) Glad you liked my video! Thanks for watching!
I know personally what those sounds are
Hi,
This is awesome.
Currently work is going on in our church for concrete slab breaking with sledge hammers instead of machine.
It's cheaper and fast.
Thank you, and thanks for watching! If you can dig out the earth from underneath your slab it will break more easily when you hit it with the sledges... rocks and concrete don't like to bend, so hitting them such that they need to bend is the best way to break them quickly. Hope that helps make the job easier!
What type of rock is that? Do you think it would work on granite?
How many hours did this take?
Wonderful job. If i want to split rocks the aize of 1 or 2 backetballs would you say a 10 lb or 12lb hammer is enough?
Had my safety squints on for most of the video.
Hello, is there any way you can post a video with instructions explaining a proper technique as to how to split big rocks , thanks
Hi Leo, thanks for watching!
I'd love to make a video showing my techniques in more detail, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that anything I do is "proper." It's just what works best for me. : )
However, I currently have 4+ other videos I'm working on that I just don't have time to finish, so don't expect anything soon... All too often life tends to get in the way of fun...
@@thepowertoact you ever going to make any splitting vids i adore those
@@ebkkill4772 Stay tuned. : D
Nice job
This looks really fun I need to buy a sledgehammer
Breaking rock is one of the most fun things I've ever done, no joke! Each rock is a puzzle to solve, just like splitting firewood, but in three dimensions since the cracks can go in any direction- so it's more of a mental challenge. Plus rockbreaking sometimes involves rigging, which is another of my favorite activities ever! I like this Nupla 20 pound sledge and would certainly recommend it, but I'd recommend the Wilton BASH line of sledgehammers more. If you're just starting out from nothing, I'd recommend an 8 pounder, but if you're already pretty strong you could go with a 10 or 12 pounder. For a two-handed sledge you want the longest handle possible, so the 36-inch handle is the best option. With the Wilton hammers, the handle weighs about two pounds or so as well, so take that into consideration. Their handles are a composite of spring steel and vulcanized rubber which is almost indestructible- but also the composite design reduces impact vibration tremendously. Can't recommend the Wilton BASH hammers sufficiently (and I'm looking forward to making some videos showing mine off!). Have fun! And remember that it's way harder to swing a hammer sideways than up and down!
What do you do with the broken rocks afterwards?
Would it be bad form if I wanted to swing it over my head as you would an axe? Do you lift it like that so you don't hurt yourself or because it's really heavy?
Good question, thanks for asking! My goal is to use my body's strongest muscles while minimizing torque on my lower back (excessive lumbar spine torque is how people hurt themselves). I've also found that the swinging technique I'm using is the most biomechanically efficient, meaning that I get the most work done for the least amount of effort. If you're swinging a sledge for strength training in a gym you might prefer to work harder to get your workout in, but if you're trying to do work (with any long-handled hand tool, including an axe) I would recommend doing it this way. Thanks for watching!
I was with you the whole way.
Helloo are these hammer stronger than CrossFit Training hammers?
These hammers are for doing real work, not for diddling yourself in an old warehouse with a squad of gumbies.
Sooo Satisfying, crushed a big bad rock just by sheer strength and will, it’s a larger than life achievement for mere city dwellers. That hammer will just man you up.
Them some facts. Thank you, and thanks for watching!
Once upon a rock...
What a satisfying video. I live in a pretty developed area so I can't break rocks because the noise would probably irritate my neighbours. That and I wouldn't have any rocks to break. Though I'm commenting on this video years late, I have to ask, how long were you working on the rock for each recording session? I'm assuming this took place over many weeks. I often train with a 14 pound sledge, but I still need to build up a lot of endurance to keep swinging for more than 15 minutes.
I had intended to do this all in one day, but I got a late start and had to take two days... If I recall correctly, I started early-to-mid-afternoon the first day and worked until evening, then went back mid-morning the next day and finished it. Let's check the timestamps from my raw footage and see how accurate my memory is--- started 3/9/2018 at 3:17pm and my last recorded video was at 5:21pm, and on 3/10/2018 my first video starts at 12:21pm and my last recorded video was at 2:46pm. Ok, great, so my memory served me pretty well. Five hours or so sounds about right for a rock this size, so I believe my numbers.
Thanks for watching and commenting! Breaking rock is super satisfying, it's one of my very favorite activities ever!
@@thepowertoact Oh, I had assumed that the multiple different cuts in the camera shot were over multiple days.
@@Hammerlord31 It's across two days. You can see the shadows of the trees shifting like sundials throughout the video.
Alot of people make the mistake of trying to swing as hard as you can on the downstroke that just tires you out you got to let the weight of the hammer do the work for you
what prison is this at?
I bet you were innocent, but framed by "the man" huh?
Haha- It's not punishment, it's joy. Breaking rock is one of my favorite activities in the entire world! Thanks for watching!
Well done bro.
Thanks bud!
I recommend the Wilton BASH if you don't want it to break again
I have the 20 lb BASH and I totally love it. But believe it or not, this handle lasted longer. The spring-steel-vulcanized rubber composite in the BASH has a weak point along the junction between the two composite materials. With extensive use the rubber delaminates from the steel and then the handle loses a lot of rigidity. But the BASH handle is way better than this Nupla steel-cored-fiberglass handle at isolating your hands from vibration, so I much prefer using it compared to this one. When I made this video I wanted to do another one with the 20 lb BASH later, but I've never gotten around to it. Thanks for watching and commenting!
What a beast.
Thank you! Thanks for watching!
Good stuff mate,,,Australia
When your family cant afford an Atari and all the kids at school are playing asteroids
Actually, not far wrong. This is the kind of human you become when you're raised without a television and trained to love manual labor...
Oooold vid but man that looks fun. I'm always a happy guy when I get to break stuff at work with a sledge.
I wish I had rocks to break! Your physique looks great because of it too, I'm sure.
Feather and pin would have made much shorter work of it.
Yes, feathers and wedges are often a very effective way to go, I've seen lots of people make very precise splits using them in granite and other rocks like that. I've never used them on this sort of rock, but based on my experience breaking the rocks this way with my sledge, many cracks I generate almost immediately veer off in an undesired direction and I wonder if the same would happen if I tried using feathers and wedges... This is a really hard kind of rock that doesn't have very consistent cleavage planes. It's frustrating, kind of like splitting super knotty firewood or smashing concrete cast around crumpled wire mesh. I hope I stay sufficiently strong to keep doing this for a long time-- and if I keep doing swinging that hammer, it will keep me strong! Thanks for watching and commenting, and have fun breaking stuff at work!!
why not a portable hammer drill and wedges and feathers? Wouldn't that be a lot easier?
Sure, and then why not bring in a super big excavator? Because this is cheaper and more fun. : D Thanks for watching!
My dad always told me *”You gotta get the daylight on it, that’s how you break rock”*
Is this a service you charge for. If so how do you advertise? Respect bro!
I sometimes break rocks for money, but mostly I do it for fun. I don't need to advertise... I know a few farms that want to get rid of rocks and they have a few lifetimes worth of work for me! I also do rock work building and improving mountain trails for my local trail club. Thanks for watching!
I have a feeling you'd love blacksmithing
It's okay, not my favorite. Mostly I weld-- it's faster and gives better results. I do blacksmithing only when I'm trying to make a point about craftsmanship, like for giving away knives as presents to my friends. For anything purely functional I'd almost always prefer to weld.
Thanks for watching, and enjoy swinging your hammers! If you're a blacksmith I'm sure you have quite a collection! : D
@@thepowertoact No problem, and to each their own; if we all followed the same path it'd get worn pretty quick. I am a smith so I have a good collection of hammers ;)
Lol I misread your comment, the "no problem" is missplaced
@@hiddenworldforge374 I can delete both and give you an opportunity to post what you wanted to say... : D
@@thepowertoact Nah, mistakes shouldn't be erased lol
This dudes pretty beast with the endurance but man can I break up alot more rock with that amount of hits
You know, it all depends on the rock. On some rocks I can strike a few times and the whole thing will basically explode. But this metabasalt is some pretty tough stuff and doesn't have very many cleavage planes. Do you happen to know the geology of the kind of rock you're comparing this to? Thanks for watching and have fun breaking rock!!
What type of shin protectors are those?.
They're Roach brand mountain biking leg guards. I highly recommend them as rock-breaking leg guards, but they don't make them like they used to and they're very hard to find (they're from the '90s, and Roach is no longer in business). I'd love to get some more of these... I was in a bidding war last year with some guy on ebay for a vintage pair of them, but I gave up due to the price. Haven't seen any more anywhere since, so maybe they were worth dropping $100 on. Kinda regret not winning that auction...
Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@thepowertoact I appreciate it, thank you. I'm going to try and connect with some people who do this for a living. I live in the NYC area. Most of the work would be in the state, but we'll see. Do you have any suggestions?.
Very nice~
Thank you! Thanks for watching! ~
@@thepowertoact Happy to watch! it takes strong muscle to swing a hammer that large in quick repetition :)
So that's how it's done huh?
Smashed it good!
Aw yeah! Thanks for watching!
There are sledgehammers with axe points on them. That might help you split the rock by delivering that force to a small spot.
I actually have one of those pointed sledges, but it's not very effective for this kind of rock. It's meant for placing a strike precisely for crack generation when splitting rocks in the way that a mason splits bricks. So that kind of hammer would work better on a slab, but for a big round basalt rock like this the most effective way I've found to break the rock is to follow the process I'm using in this video- beat on the rock with the most massive hammer available until a crack starts to propagate, and then exploit that crack with the leverage of the prybar. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@thepowertoact I couldn't use that on my project because the rocks are at most 1-1/2 ft wide and too heavy to move. I am 60 years old , so I don't want to be pounding on a rock for even 20 minutes with a sledgehammer. LOL. I will use a sledgehammer to get my tires, brake shoes and rotors when I fix my car brakes though. That takes 2 minutes.
very useful in did because I have this issue
I just spent 16 minutes watching Thomas Collins from TPB hit a rock with a hammer.
I'm not dissapopinted
Gider dun!!!
Bravo!.
Thank you! It's nice to see some love on my rock breaking videos... My firewood videos get lots of views, but my true joy is breaking rock. It's like splitting firewood but in three dimensions, so it takes lots more strength and strategy. I guess there are more armchair woodsmen than armchair stone crushers? Thanks for watching, glad you appreciate it!
i got a big rock in my future fire pit. if i just beat the f outta it with a sledgy will it break. subbed
Hey thanks for the sub! To your question, my short answer is no or at least maybe not-- if you JUST beat it with a sledge, even if you're really strong, if it's a tough rock you'll just slowly turn it to gravel. It matters HOW you hit it. You want to induce shear (bending) forces on the rock with your strikes. If you just slam the hammer straight into it, it will just slowly turn to gravel, or do nothing, and that's a lot more effort (and maybe even too much effort) for you. What you want to do is dig up around it (so there is an edge hanging over like a diving board) and then hit hard on that protruding part (with the heaviest hammer you can manage, focusing more on lifting the hammer really high into the air at the beginning of your swing and then pulling it down with your body weight and muscles, rather than swinging it like a baseball bat). If you do that, then bigger pieces will break off and the work will go much faster, because rocks really don't like to bend. Flat rocks that have layers like a pancake are easier than round rocks, and some rocks are just plain stronger than others due to how they form in the earth. Also, once you get a crack going, a big steel prybar like I'm using here can help widen the crack and save you a lot of time and effort with the hammer.
Thanks for watching, and have fun breaking your rock! Enjoy your bonfires!
Thats enough youtube for tonight
Welcome to my channel, I hope you enjoyed your stay!!
I feel like playing 7 days 2 die now lol
Damn did that rock murder your family for you to be smashing it😂😂😂😂😂😂
Are you drinking milk at the end?
Reusing a milk gallon container as a water bottle. Working hard it's easy to drink 2 gallons or more in a day (that's 7 liters for you metric folks) so normal quart-sized water bottles aren't convenient. Thanks for watching!
oh no sorry you broke up the wrong rock I meant the one on the other side of the driveway :)
Yup, those are next. : D
I feel bad for the sledge
It does the job. But in time it will also break your back
Well, respectfully, it hasn't yet. To the contrary, all the hard manual labor I do seems to be what keeps me strong and happy! It's sitting down for 10 hours at a time at the ol' desk job that gets me, and driving to work is way more likely to wind up hurting me through a car accident than just about anything else I do. Cheers, I hope this video brought some joy to your life!
I might be off by a few. I counted 212 strikes with that nupla.
I edited the video to show only the "productive" strikes, the ones that actually resulted in breaking pieces off or propagating cracks. The actual number is probably several times that. (I counted too at one point while I was editing, and got 216)
Thanks for watching!
@@thepowertoact Be well my friend.
Good way to lose an eye
I figure it beats staring at a screen and slowly degrading your eyesight and focal length. I wear safety glasses and have never had an issue. More worried about my teeth- I should wear a mouthguard...
Fucking mad lad
Beast
the only way you could have made this harder on yourself is if you had a smaller hammer hahaha. Man, good on you for being passionate. I figured you would use spliters. But you just like the hammer.
Hey, thanks for watching. Yes I do *love* the hammer, and also I don't like the idea of using a drill on the rock to set feathers and wedges... I like "appropriate technology" (low tech, low cost, high manual labor input) solutions to problems wherever possible, and the broken pieces are a little more natural looking without drill marks. Plus it's just plain fun to take a boulder apart with a hammer, and great exercise!
@@thepowertoact right on. Ill remember that next time I but head to the wall! I came looking for a way to deal with a big rock myself. Ill give it a try and get back to ya!
The real iron man
In former times this work was used for punishment.
What the name of those shin gaurds?
They're Roach brand shin guards for mountainbiking. But they're pretty vintage and the company isn't making them anymore. Other mountainbiking shinguards would be similar should work the same, but I really like these and would love to find another pair!
20 lb sledge hammers are expensive
A good sledge costs about $200 and lasts sufficiently long to earn thousands of dollars swinging it. I call that a good deal. Thanks for watching!
I tell u what my son's will do this for discipline
Be careful, if you're saying you're going to have them break rock as punishment that might backfire on you... if your kids break rock often it won't be long before they're stronger than you are-- and THEN how are you going to discipline them? : P Thanks for watching, and if you do teach your sons how to break rock then have fun and be safe!
You're one crazy dude.
I love you.
Still selling 30 pound custom mauls?
Custom mauls? Sure, how much do you wanna pay?
Making a production run is way, way on the back burner, and they'll be about 20 pounders not 30. But if you made it worth it, sure, I'd make you whatever.
@@thepowertoact I’d like a 50 million lbs. maul. I will pay you 100 million! Sorry, cannot offer a deposit. Ok, go!
Ok. What did we learn from all this? What's with the barrette in the hair? Man up, Man...
You seem not to have learned anything, but I suppose some people watching this might have learned that you can do a man's work without conforming to retrogressive masculine stereotypes?
Be careful
Why
Fun!
Minecraft irl
And a lot more fun than staring at a screen! : D
But like helping the earth because the heavy rock/boulder is very hard and heavy and well bouldery.
@@cotylee3006 I have no idea what you mean by this. Cheers!
Нужен молот тора😁😁😁😁
У меня есть молот побольше ... но только на 2 кг тяжелее
@@thepowertoact на такой нужны уже руки базуки
Drill a hole fill er with tanerite
🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒😆🖒😆
Put some safety glasses Bro!
PPE goes on at 0:50. It stays on.
Put on some corrective lenses, brah.
Definitely not the most efficient way to do this job yo
Well, yes and no... "Efficiency" is a relative quantity, not an absolute-- efficiency is always a ratio between values. For example, mechanical efficiency is the ratio of mechanical work accomplished to mechanical work input. In other words, efficiency is relative. So, efficiency with respect to what? If you mean with respect to first-order human physical effort, then sure, there are ways to do this job with less immediate human effort. But I'm not worried about physical effort, I'm more concerned with optimizing with respect to speed, cost, and convenience-- and with respect to those quantities, I think you'd be hard pressed to show me a more efficient method. Thanks for watching and sharing your perspective!
You need a better swing
How about this one?
th-cam.com/video/21t78CpMzJ4/w-d-xo.html
I thought that was a pretty good swing. ; )
bad hammer...so long time to break it
Bad English.
Waste of a rock if u ask me. Next time wear gloves and glasses.
he do wear glasses btw they are clearly visible
and gloves are not important. iron caps and glasses is the minimum with a helmet if objects could fall on you.
I'm ALWAYS wearing my gloves! But in addition to hightop steel toed boots, safety glasses, and shin/knee pads, I should also probably wear a cup and a mouth guard... Never been an issue in ten years, but I'd sure regret it if it were!
Thanks for watching!
What did this human accomplish after all that labor? That was the most pointless work I've ever seen. Smash a rock not even blocking the road.
Hi there!
A big oak tree catapulted that rock into the middle of the driveway with its rootball when it toppled. If the rock had stayed in the field where it belonged everything would have been lovely. But the rock did not belong in the driveway or next to it, and it was too big to move even with our neighbor's big ol' John Deere (all it could do was push it out of the way a little). As you noted, the rock was not directly in the driveway any more, but it made the driveway effectively narrower for large vehicles and hauling trailers, and also it wasn't particularly attractive.
This human removed the offending rock and made a bunch of useful smaller rocks that we used to shore up the road where it had washed out. Moreover, this human had tons of fun and got some great exercise doing it! An added bonus was the opportunity to make a little video to share the joy of breaking rocks (along with an honest review/demonstration of the Nupla 20 pound hammer) with other like-minded folks the world over.
Which evidently does not include you, but that's okay. Thanks for watching! : )
Wack form
Works great
Oh no!! This guy doesn’t actually know how to hammer