For landscape professionals
A boulder weighs as much as a car and has no handles. We only offer stones we know how to move. Each one falls into a weight class, and each class has its own equipment, crew and site needs. The price you see already pays for them.
Class I · up to 3,000 lb
Comes on a flatbed with a compact excavator or track loader, which carries the stone in and sets it with a hydraulic thumb or grapple.
In the collection: Sierra Cloud
Class II · 3,000 to 8,000 lb
A flatbed with its own knuckle-boom crane. It parks at the curb or on the drive, sets its outriggers down on pads, and lifts the stone over fences and planting into place.
In the collection: Nightfall, Sentinel, Ember Split
Class III · 8,000 to 12,000 lb
A mobile crane sized to the lift, with the stone on a separate flatbed. We walk the site before booking, and get a street-use permit when the crane has to stand in the road.
In the collection: The Weekend Estate
Over 12,000 lb, a stone needs engineering: ground-bearing checks, lift plans, sometimes a road closure. We don't offer those.
Before we set anything
Gate widths, turning room, slopes and the ground the equipment crosses. Soft lawn and wet ground get mats. If a route won't work, we say so.
Power and phone lines, eaves and tree canopy along the boom's swing. We keep the clearances utilities require from overhead lines.
We call 811 to have buried utilities marked before we dig, and ask you about irrigation, septic, drains and lighting.
Nothing drives over pavers, stone or decking. Where we must cross them we lay ground-protection mats or plywood. Outrigger pads sit on cribbing, never on a finished surface.
Lifted on nylon round slings, never chains, so the face you chose isn't scarred. Set on a compacted gravel base and buried a quarter to a third of its height, so it looks like it has always been there.
The crew brings the 3D scan. You choose the face here or in your photo, and we set it to match.
What the price covers
The stone, sales tax, freight, the equipment for its class, the crew, base preparation, setting and cleanup.
Removing and relaying existing hardscape, retaining walls, tree work, or engineering for a stone set on a slope or a structure. If your site needs any of these, we tell you before anything is charged.
Landscape architects and contractors: we're glad to talk through a site, its access or a lift before you specify a stone. hello@prettybigrocksco.com