Picking rock. (pics)

oldtanker · Sep 18, 2013

I took the TLB over to help the BIL out with a hay field that he's going to plow this fall. Small 15 acre field.

They marked over 40 rocks. Gonna try to finish up tomorrow.

Rick

JayinNY · Sep 18, 2013

I've been doing it for 3 days it stinks! Yours looks more fun, at
least there big rocks.

RGMartin · Sep 18, 2013

(quoted from post at 20:30:16 09/18/13) I've been doing it for 3 days it stinks! Yours looks more fun, at
least there big rocks.

I would love to build some wall like that. Unfortunately all of our rocks are round(glacial till).

JayinNY · Sep 18, 2013

Yes the walls are something. Here's a few more pics in case u
missed my other posts.

Larry NEIL · Sep 18, 2013

My main field is rocky, must have hand picked 2 semi loads out of there in the last 10 years.

You're right, it does suck, but better than bustin knife sections

oldtanker · Sep 18, 2013

Larry, he's going to be tilling this field this fall. He's worried about busting up equipment.

Rick

BillOHIO · Sep 18, 2013

Wow, big rocks ! You sure they are not asteroids that have landed there ?

Bill

the tractor vet · Sep 18, 2013

Rocks , Rocks ya say . Iffen ya want to pick rocks then come on over and you might get a few with the hoe and a loader bucket full on each pass and for the granddaddy ones ya had best bring a BIG track hoe . I gottwo fair sized ones this spring with the skid steer and had to dig a ramp to roll them up and out as they were as big as the skidsteer , still have one that i gave up on after i was down five feet and still had not found the bottom of it . been trippen the plow on that one for fortyfive years.

showcrop · Sep 18, 2013

Just think of the hundreds more lurking just below the surface. You should be able to get it done in a couple weeks.

todd hamilton · Sep 18, 2013

I hit one with grandpa"s 656 pulling 4 bottom one time. Dad said we were lucky I didn"t spring the frame on the plow. I went back to plowing and he dug the rock out with the 300U. I saw him turn around a go backwards with the rock in the loader bucket. He said later he couldn"t keep the back wheels on the ground going forward.

donjr · Sep 18, 2013

That's another reason I like no-til. Ain't a diggin
up as many to the surface!

oldtanker · Sep 18, 2013

(quoted from post at 18:17:34 09/18/13) Rocks , Rocks ya say . Iffen ya want to pick rocks then come on over and you might get a few with the hoe and a loader bucket full on each pass and for the granddaddy ones ya had best bring a BIG track hoe . I gottwo fair sized ones this spring with the skid steer and had to dig a ramp to roll them up and out as they were as big as the skidsteer , still have one that i gave up on after i was down five feet and still had not found the bottom of it . been trippen the plow on that one for fortyfive years.

I got one loose. It's about 4x5x5 but with a TLB I can't get it out of the hole.

Rick

Larry NEIL · Sep 18, 2013

By the looks of those rocks, I can see why!

Janicholson · Sep 18, 2013

Dig 5 feet deeper next to it and roll it in! 300 years it will get back to the top. Not your problem. Jim

oldtanker · Sep 19, 2013

(quoted from post at 21:46:02 09/18/13) Dig 5 feet deeper next to it and roll it in! 300 years it will get back to the top. Not your problem. Jim

Jim, great idea except I still gotta be able to reach in far enough to hook the rock.

Rick

Spook · Sep 19, 2013

Hi, I am from Michigan, and I am surprised that the hydrant is that far out of the ground? Great pics, btw.

Adirondack case guy · Sep 19, 2013

I bet you can't dig this one out! This field is 22A and it looks the same on the other end. The uncle just got done cutting third cut alfalfa, when I took the pic. Planning on notill corn on the field next yr.
Loren, the Acg.

Ken Macfarlane · Sep 19, 2013

Same problem over here. Our fields have been rock picked for oh
200-300 years but with horses and stone boats they left the big
stuff for us!

Brian G. NY · Sep 19, 2013

The part of the hydrant that's in the ground is what's important. Jay may have one of those 8' hydrants?

Janicholson · Sep 19, 2013

It did work! Jim

T in NE · Sep 21, 2013

Rocks? Yeah, I kinda remember them. Dad did the dig-a-deeper-hole-and-roll-it-in for a neighbor many times. Most of ours were still small enough the 555B could lift them out of the hole. Even if it meant getting it pulled clear in against the main boom to do it.

Moved a rock pile for another guy, he sold it years later to a company putting in gas well driveways, ended up being something like 12 tri-axle loads.

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