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Re: Any one ever Built a Home made rock picker???
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Posted by rhudson on February 06, 2001 at 12:22:35 from (152.34.151.17):
In Reply to: Any one ever Built a Home made rock picker??? posted by Canadian Cowboy on February 05, 2001 at 15:51:43:
OK Canadian Cowboy, i've never built one, (i think my grandfather took of this problem). but i've seen some. one was not a picker but "windrower". it was made of 6" pipe with sprial fingers to form flights like on an auger only with spaces to allow the soil to pass through. this was spun with a gear box at one end. this entire assembly was angled back like a snow blade. so as you drive forward on the tractor this auger kicked the rocks forward and to the right to form a row. then a front loader scooped them up. the auger turns slowly so it doesn't get the rocks airborne. its only good for rocks up to about 7 inches in diameter. on the other hand i saw a Krone made rock picker that was basically make from thick plate and large roller chain that both raked and hauled the rocks from about 2" dia up to big honking size. it looked like something a guy could put together in a few hundred hours if he could scrounge the materials. sorry for being long winded, i gotta learn how to use a scanner so i can try to sketch this stuff.
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