Big Rock!!

big tee · May 2, 2020

We put some drainage tile in a farm my son rents last fall so I deep ripped it to break years of compaction. We have a Deere 8130 with a 5 shank ripper and when I crossed the tile ditch I hooked a big rock that stopped the tractor--Raised up and went over it and thought I would come back with the backhoe and finish getting it out. The weather turned bad so never got back until two weeks ago. Could not get it out with the hoe so Son helped with his Case 1845 skid loader. It was bigger than we thought! Got it out and had to hook two chains on it-one 20 footer was not enough to go around it and then to the quick-coupler. Drug it to the end of the field and rolled it into the trees. It makes a guy wonder how machinery takes the rocks here in North-East Iowa!---Tee

Son's 8630 and the old 2200 Steiger on the plow

Doesn't look that big..

Final resting place

David G · May 2, 2020

You can thank our northern friends for that rock, they sent it down during ice age.

flying belgian · May 2, 2020

We had one about that big on one of our farms years ago. Pa got some guy in with dineomite to blast it.

MSD · May 3, 2020

We had a lot of big one's at home up in NE SD where I grew up. I remember my uncle digging by hand along side of some of them and then hooking on to them and rolling them on the hole to bury them. Others we used a Cat and did a trench along side and pushed them in. We had a lot of rock "pits" where we would dump the rocks and then cover them over when the pit got full. Main reason I never stuck around to go into farming. Hated picking them suckers.

SVcummins · May 3, 2020

Holy cow 🐄!

M-MAN · May 3, 2020

The Texas guys would say they were trying out a new slingshot, sorry bout that. Lol

Olyj1947 · May 3, 2020

Tee, that is a dandy! Make sure the land owner lowers the rent for that!

Traditional Farmer · May 3, 2020

Around here if you start digging could easily dig up rocks bigger than a house,up om the mountain gigantic rock out croppings.A lot of stone quarries in the area.

db4600 · May 3, 2020

Sometimes known as Leiberite. We had a lot of those on the home place. Pa bought a 310C for the problem. Sometimes we had to blast them out. The last battle the 310 battled before retirement was on the neighbor?s hillside. The 310 dug like a badger but could move the 4 ton behemoth, only wiggle it. The neighbor lassoed it with a cable and tied it of to his 1175. Between the 1175 and the 310 we moved it to the edge of the field onto the back bank of the ditch.

37 chief · May 3, 2020

It's a big one all right. I have a fried all he does is haul large rocks for a landscaping company. Big money in large rocks around here, in the southern part of California. For some reason people like large rocks around their houses. I have seen more rocks in my life in fields, I sure don't want to come home and see them around my house. Stan

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