My father had his bitch stuck over cristmas,, in a pile 3 days later we decided to get the heavy. Gear in we stillsawed some massive slabs of stone,, butblade only went throu 5 inch saw we had to put steel wedges i had made,, in the joint that the blade had made then u had to hit the steel wedge with a sledge hammer,, we did this for 5 '6 hours once we got the top slabs of we started to getsome progress, we had todig throu shale so this is were buckits come to play as we loaded the buckits withshale a lad lifted it out and sent it back down,, we gotdown 8 ft an the stones got bigger so it