Front end loader cleaving enormous slab of stone - GIF

[mklotz]

Very puzzling, indeed.

They've taken the time and effort to wire saw a nice flat-sided slab but then they purposely tip it on to a berm of spoil that is guaranteed to fracture it into randomly shaped pieces.

If they were just clearing stone away, say for a road pass or some such, explosives would be faster and wire sawing would be a waste. If they just want random chunks of (sand?)-stone, again explosives would be more efficient.

It surely looks like a quarry, though, in which case the pictured operation is hard to understand.