Good way to occupy your time (!! "Occupy Your Time/Life"!!) Do yourself a favor and get a Spud Bar. Good luck.

When I moved my last truckload was of my rocks. My son was not happy.

Well, starting at age 62. I think he was 65 when he finished.

His yard sloped and was hard to mow, plus it didn't lend itself to flower beds. He started the project of terracing by building one flagstone retaining wall. He went to the quarry and hand loaded two tons into a trailer, then wheelbarrowed it from the front to the back. Hand dug for the wall, hand laid all of the stone wall, backfilled, and went back to the quarry for another two tons.

He wound up with three levels and some 200' of wall, most of it between 2' and 3' high. All of it with flower beds at the top and immaculate turf at the bottom. It was awesome, and doing it would have killed me. He thrived on it.

If I recall correctly, he hand loaded, wheelbarrowed and hand laid some 22 tons of flagstone in three years.

I use them all over the place here. But they're really PRETTY rocks. Some come from our property, some were free from my vet, and another friend has brought in truck loads for me (I pay him). They're all sizes, and in shades or orange, peach, red, and tan. Lots of quartz, red clay, and limestone here. Lots of caves (like Mammoth). Around my big flower garden, I've used them in gabion pillars with log fencing, and working on the front wall being all rock (in gabion cages). I have them around the big pond, and along the driveway retaining wall. I wouldn't be able to estimate how many tons I've moved in a wheelbarrow (and I'm no pup). Also used them to build the stone hearth under our wood stove, and a future project will be building a chimney around that stove pipe.

They're very versatile for all kinds of projects. I'm into rustic around our little log cabin in the woods.

My wife is 71 and still moving rocks around, she puts them on a plastic kids sled, and pulls them around the yard on that. It slides on anything and is easier than a wheelbarrow.

I bet you get that ditch lined before they plant you in the ground and sooner than you think!