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Making that post also motivated me– the math is very rough so I have no idea if it’s correct or not, but I have been moving rocks by hand, picking them out of the production field (from which they do very much need the rocks removed) just across the farm road from the house site into buckets and pails and milk crates that I load into a garden cart, and I’m going off a very rough estimate that a 5-gallon drywall bucket full to about the top with rocks weighs maybe 70 or 80 pounds. I have no idea if this is correct, that was my sister’s estimate. It’s a weight that i can lift, and can carry, and can carry quite a distance, but cannot lift very high and cannot walk very well with, and am extremely tired after shifting.

So anyway. Let’s go with 70 pounds. A milk crate weighs a similar amount full of rocks, just from how much difficulty I have shifting it. Two milk crates, a 5-gal bucket, and a 3-gal pail in a garden cart is a load of 270 pounds.

[image description: The interior of a garden cart, with a drywall bucket, two milk crates, and a metal pail full of irregular river stones and gravel of varying sizes.] By that math, given the full and partial trips I’ve done, I’ve– ah, I thought this morning’s load would get me over a ton, but by my revised math (I’d been estimating 80) I’m only at about 1,780 pounds of rocks moved by hand. So, I need to do one more trip this morning to make it to one ton. Which I was planning to do anyway, so.

Fuck, if only I was building this cabin out of rocks. But that’s a skillset I super don’t have.

Maybe I’ll get bearselkie buff from this. I hurt all over so far, though.

No pain, no gain, right? (Your picture was not posted)