Ah rock picken , Each year we go thru this . Ya get some young guys that are willing to work and yes there are a few that will work the ground up a little and have at it . We start on one side of a field with four or five guys and a skid steer with the big bucket and go . The first year we went to deep till i think we found rocks that have not seen the light of day in ten million years . we have plowed that field now for about 45 years and got some out before but ya always were tripping the plow everywhere . The first round with the deep till the plow sole was so hard that at twelve inches deep i could only pull five shanks going down hill with a turned up 1066 with duals . Broke a dozen shear bolts on the ripper the first year and found some pretty huge rocks that i dug out with the skid steer , some as big as the skid steer and had to dig a ramp to get them out of the holes that were darn near the start of a basement for low income housing . Each one had to rolled to the end of the field and rolled down into the ravine . As for the hand rock picking we were dumping at each end of the field . The next year we went down to 14 inches and did the rock picking all over again any rock soft ball size and up got picked that we could find and again found some big ones that would break a shear bolt and when that happened they got flagged and dug . . We did this three years in a row and it has really helped , you may have to stop a couple times while working ground to pick up a couple here and there but that is ok as this past spring i picked up only five rocks out of that field. The deep ripping really helped out on the wet spots as they now drain better and up on the hard clay knobs the corn roots now can get down and find moisture that they never got before on a dryer year . With all the rain we had this spring then the dry the rest of the year the corn in that field did real well . If we had the money we would buy a rock picker and a windrower , i would even settle for a old potato harvester they also work well on rocks up to about a foot or so . My uncle raised taters and they were rock free after four years with the harvester .
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