As the rock fight in the dungeon progressed an idea crept into Kadizzles head. All engineers are taught rocks have unlimited strength in compression, but they are weaklings in tension.
The idea percolated. What if Kadizzle's best friend the 12 ton hydraulic jack could put the rock in tension. With careful planning the idea came to fruition. Kadizzle broke out enough of the rock so he could make it work against itself. Placing the jack on the small perturbance Kadizzle had created, and putting the jack against a face of the rock victory soon emerged. With just a couple of strokes on the jack the massive rock popped into two humongous pieces. Kadizzle immediately declared himself a genius and insisted Winky come see the marvelous victory. The rock had submitted to the laws of physics.
In the course of battling boulders in the crawl space Kadizzle took on many strong rocks, but the was the rock of Gibraltar, and Kadizzle broke it in half. Drunk with victory Winky had to bring Kadizzle back to Earth.
There is still much work to do, but the enemy is defeated. The carcass has to be moved, and many of it's splintered pieces have to be loaded on the wheelbarrow. The children, and grandchildren will be told the story of how Kadizzle outsmarted the eight ton megalith in the crawl space. More likely it will be a story about the time Grandpa lost his mind.
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