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Picking rocks in the field west of the barn. Borrowed neighbors Harley windrower, tractor and picker. Windrower gathered 20 ft, then went over it with the picker got everything baseball size and up including roots, rhizomes, and misc. that didn't sift out through the rotor. Throat on machine would take 18" at least.
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I could sure use that thing for a few years. I remember when a family from northern Ohio moved up here and started working ground. They said that back home,if you saw a small stone,you'd jump off the tractor and pick it up,but if you tried that here you'd never get anything done.
 
One of those multigenerational fellas lives across the road and spends half the year on a JD lawn tractor towing a little trailer in which he puts rocks. He has a 50 acre field and has picked up enough rocks to make a pile big enough that I can see it a quarter mile away. I bet that pile is 10' high. I have the same rocks but not the same ambition.

Rock picker for me!
 
I always thought those machines would work good to clean up driveways where they leveled farms here in Nebraska, uncle by Eau Claire Wisconsin had a couple machines for different sized rocks or at least maybe a worn out one and a better one for final pass.
 
Last I knew the rig was sitting at Atkinson Construction on the corner of M13 and Miller Rd east of Durand. Maybe they would lease it out. When the neighbors were building their golf course (Hunters Ridge) they wrapped the drum with hardware cloth and it picked anything bigger than a golf ball. Allis 7060 power shift, and yes a dump wagon.
 
Ya,you see potato windrowers around here with boxes on them. The big harvesters have rock boxes right on them anyway. They use air to float the potatoes over,but the rocks fall to the bottom.
 
Tater pickers are not tough enough for rocks. Dahlman's, the company that built tater planters and diggers in my home to an tried to build a rock picker and tested it on our land. Don't kniw if they ever put one in production or not, but it worked real well. They went out of business soon after they tested it. The potato growing had pretty much ended near us by then and they were trying to find something else they could do.
 
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