{"id":217,"date":"2016-04-21T16:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T16:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2016-05-11T01:12:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T01:12:58","slug":"rocks-rocks-and-more-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/21\/rocks-rocks-and-more-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocks, rocks, and more rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We always knew there would be rocks in the dirt, we just weren&#8217;t fully prepared as to how many.\u00a0 Our initial estimate was to remove 1800 yards of material from the ground. We are done tucking dirt away now and have taken 1200 yards.\u00a0 That means we&#8217;ve also moved about 600 yards of rock and fully 1\/3 of everything in the ground is rock.<\/p>\n<p>Here is our pile of rocks at a stone company storage yard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-226\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_5998-1024x367.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5998\" width=\"730\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_5998-1024x367.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_5998-300x107.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_5998-768x275.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Up until that last couple of days, the largest rocks we encountered were 3 feet wide or so.\u00a0 Large, but not too much trouble.\u00a0 Yesterday, we uncovered a couple of 4 foot boulders, a couple of 5 foot boulders, a 7 foot boulder, and then this one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-219\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FullSizeRender.jpg-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender.jpg-1\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FullSizeRender.jpg-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FullSizeRender.jpg-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FullSizeRender.jpg-1.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-220\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FullSizeRender.jpg-2-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender.jpg-2\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FullSizeRender.jpg-2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FullSizeRender.jpg-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FullSizeRender.jpg-2.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that is one big rock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We always knew there would be rocks in the dirt, we just weren&#8217;t fully prepared as to how many.\u00a0 Our initial estimate was to remove 1800 yards of material from the ground. We are done tucking dirt away now and have taken 1200 yards.\u00a0 That means we&#8217;ve also moved about 600 yards of rock and<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/21\/rocks-rocks-and-more-rocks\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about Rocks, rocks, and more rocks<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-excavation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}