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Same argument every year

jon f mn

jon f mn

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And I lose every year. My dc always wants to pick rocks, but I don't. It always begs, please, just one bucket of big ones. I say no, but she persists with "please, just one bucket full". I say, but I don't LIKE to pick rocks"! Then she usually comes back with the please please please, just one bucket full, just so we can post a pic on YT! So I give in, but it's always a lie and ends up being hours of work and many buckets full. Lol. I did put her to work on a couple other jobs too, just to get even.
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I'm not a bonafide farmer, but have friends who are and they would be very happy with your dry fields. I'm an hour south of the Twin Cities and it's WET everywhere around here. Wow you have some rocky ground. I always heard that anywhere there are rocks the soil is good.
 
A rock is the only breed that propagates during the winter months. By spring the offspring are fully grown and ready to pick.
 

They say that the frost keeps pushing the rocks to the surface. If that were true there would be a lot of coffins on top of the ground each spring.
 
Well back n the day my dad told us. If we could only find that mother rock we would nt have to pick rock every year!!!! Never found her........but almost every year we would start out with a well let's just say small stone! Hour later we boy's have unearthed a Volkswagen!!! Know it's time for the 700 and log chains to pull it onto the stoneboat!!!Jon, your dc would bust her bra trying to get her out. My dad would just shake his head. Know you boy's can find dirt to fill the hole hee hee. God bless
 
I have heard of the "stone boat" and I've used one. They are low down - slide along the ground on small runners and you can roll the rocks right on. This was in the days before mechanical pickers. Dad used ours in winter for hauling manure "by pitchfork", fork it on and fork it off.
 
We've had frost below six feet a few years that I can remember. If you want to know how deep the frost is, just ask a grave digger.
 
Jon,
Those are what my good neighbor used to call "implement busters" as in, "We only pick the implement busters, the small ones can go to seed for next years crop." I can't believe the old timers used to have enough time (and kids) to stack the stones along the line fences, we are glad to just get them hauled off the fields. I shouldn't say this but I makes me feel a bit better knowing some other people have stones to pick too. Don
 
When I was kid we did all the stone picking by hand, throwing them onto a wagon or rolling the big ones onto the stone boat. Our stone boat was just a heavy sheet of steel about 4? x 8? with a chain on one end to hook to the drawbar.
You wouldn?t want too many stones in a front end loader on an SC or DC as it would be hard to steer. Then if the ground was soft the front end would plow in when trying to steer. Would need some good brakes to help steer.
Jim
 
Good grief! I am glad we dont have rocks like that in our fields. Looks like if you saved enough of those stones you could build a hobbits mansion.
 
(quoted from post at 14:14:26 05/15/18) When I was kid we did all the stone picking by hand, throwing them onto a wagon or rolling the big ones onto the stone boat. Our stone boat was just a heavy sheet of steel about 4? x 8? with a chain on one end to hook to the drawbar.
You wouldn?t want too many stones in a front end loader on an SC or DC as it would be hard to steer. Then if the ground was soft the front end would plow in when trying to steer. Would need some good brakes to help steer.
Jim
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My uncles farm was like that, full of rocks. He would hook a hay wagon to his JD model A and let the youngest child hold onto the steering wheel while the tractor and wagon made its way through the field. The rest of us kids would toss rocks onto the wagon bed. He also had a plow graveyard. He bought up every three bottom plow he could get his hands on. Whenever he would run into a large rock it would bend the plow beams, ruining it. He too had a DC with an old New Idea loader on it that was used to dig the big ones out after he ruined another plow.
 
Love the story line about you DC loving to pick up big rocks. Here in central Illinois, we love using big rocks to landscape around our houses. Our pickup trucks love to haul big rocks. So next time me and my Silverado are in you neighborhood how about 20 bucks for that biggest rock? 30 bucks? How about 100 bucks for all of them? My pickup is throwing a hissy fit---lets go!!!!! LOL

True story. A few years ago I was helping a farmer with tillage and found a big rock in his field. My wife collects natural rocks for her ongoing landscaping hobby in her bird feeding area and for around the house. I ask the farmers son if I could have that rock. He thought a moment and his eyes lighted up. He said "Mom would like that rock for mothers day". One more mothers day gift solved!!!!!
 
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