Re: Rock/Stone

Posted by john d on December 28, 2003 at 20:12:00 from (64.12.96.236):

In Reply to: Rock/Stone posted by JCB on December 28, 2003 at 17:07:26:

You may be giving people on this board more credit than is deserved if you expect us to outsmart those rocks! I've wondered about this myself, and I think frost absolutely MUST play a part in it, but I think that's probably only part of the answer.

I'm on a central Indiana farm that's been in my family over 90 years, and 5 generations of us have picked up rocks! Frost is certainly a factor, but the ground here seldom freezes deeper than 40", even in a cold winter. Frost may not be doing much to rocks that are several feet deep.

Another curious thing to me, is that the little ones and the big ones seem to rise at approximately the same rate, or we would (I think) begin to run out of one size after a while! This farm's been tilled for over 150 years, and it doesn't have a big rock problem compared to a lot of places. But, there are rock piles on every farm in the community, and many of those rock piles are over 100 years old. The rocks we get today seem to be pretty much the size, type, and shape of the ones my grandfather used to pick up.

Maybe it's as simple as my neighbor throwing his over the fence....

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