Picked A Few Rocks

Picked a few rocks the old fashioned way. Just a 60 acre field so I didn't bother hitching up to the Crown rotary picker. Hand picked
about 2 and a half buckets with the JD 2140 front end loader. Sure is dry on the surface for this time of year. Driving anywhere I
need to in the field with no worries of mud.

Rock Picking

A lot of those rocks looked very long and skinny, LOL. I have always enjoyed picking rocks the old fashioned way. For the last 20 years I have been by myself so I put the tractor in first and walk along in front of it, picking them up and tossing them in.

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A lot of those rocks looked very long and skinny, LOL. I have always enjoyed picking rocks the old fashioned way. For the last 20 years I have been by myself so I put the tractor in first and walk along in front of it, picking them up and tossing them in.

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I might have done that years ago with the old tractors that were rear mount but I'm not going to climb up in front of that moving rear wheel. I'm 99% sure I could get away with it but can't afford to be wrong.

Showcrop, if you like picking up rocks you are more than welcome to come to the house and pick up all your heart desires. I'll give the darn things to you and feed
you supper for your trouble! Personally, I hate picking the darn things up, but it seems like rocks are our best crop in my area. Not really big ones though, most
just about the size of your fist up to about the size of a basketball. I just pick the big ones up anymore and let the machines move the little ones around.

Mac

Some day I will take a picture of the biggest rock ever dug out on this farm. It took a big old D6 Cat to dig it out and push it off the field. Prior to that I recall my dad digging one out and having quite a struggle to pull it with a chain behind the John Deere D just to get it off the field. Downhill! We spent a few hours years ago trying to dig one out with the Cockshutt 50 and blade. Got quite a hole dug and a chain around it but the 2090 Case could not pull it out of the ground. So I'm still working over and around that one.

I always liked picking rocks it?s not a bad job if it?s
not to hot we never had a rock picker wouldn?t mind
having one . I?d always carry them to the rock piles
where the lava rocks were to big and deep to move

Always find your videos entertaining and the Canadian countryside is beautiful. I?ve been involved in farming all my life. We have no rocks in the soil in this part of Central Missouri. I?ve never seen a rock picker. Do you just pick them up above a certain size ? What happens if you miss one ? Do they get in your combine , planter and mower ? Do they just keep coming up ? Or can you get them all at some point ? I assume they were deposited by glaciers. I was just curious . About the only rocks when have are what was dumped on the drive.

(quoted from post at 18:50:05 05/02/19) Always find your videos entertaining and the Canadian countryside is beautiful. I?ve been involved in farming all my life. We have no rocks in the soil in this part of Central Missouri. I?ve never seen a rock picker. Do you just pick them up above a certain size ? What happens if you miss one ? Do they get in your combine , planter and mower ? Do they just keep coming up ? Or can you get them all at some point ? I assume they were deposited by glaciers. I was just curious . About the only rocks when have are what was dumped on the drive.

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Bill, the rule that we had here was that they didn't have to be picked if they were smaller than a baseball, that way my son could keep thinking sports while working. Yes, they keep coming up. Every year the frost pushes them a little higher. first just one mower blade will hit it, and it is just a click, but every year it gets a little higher, One field that I used to hay, which was my largest, was the worst for rocks. Soon after baling I would go back while the clicks were fresh in my mind and paint the rocks with dirt paint so that I could find them in the fall and dig them out with the hoe. I had one or two that were too big for the tractor to get out, so I just dug deeper beside them and pushed them in. By the time it comes up again my ashes will be spread there.

(quoted from post at 18:50:05 05/02/19) I?ve never seen a rock picker. Do you just pick them up above a certain size ? What happens if you miss one ? Do they get in your combine , planter and mower ? Do they just keep coming up ? Or can you get them all at some point ?.

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Combine hit a rock