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Clever Rock Picker Ideas?

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Jim

09-16-2003 14:37:35




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I have a JD450C and a 580SE and am looking for a plan to pick rocks. Renting a bobcat with Rock Hound is way too expensive, since I need to do it almost continuously. The garden, lawn, driveway, and forest thinning all generate lots of rocks - you'd never guess that rocks float... Anyone have any clever designs? For example: 1) a finer tooth brush rake for my dozer could push medium sized rocks. 2) a horizontal, finer toothed brush rake on the loader bucket (like a forklift attachment) could scoop rocks and roll them into the bucket. 3) a loader bucket with slots cut into the bottom to let out dirt ($300 for a beater bucket plus labor). 4) Homemade shaker table - steel diamond screen and off balance motor on trailer? Before I get a bigger welder and spend real money, I thought I'd entertain better ideas... I swear the last glacier stopped right at my doorstep, as I have more rocks than dirt.

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Cory M.

09-18-2003 10:07:09




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 Re: Clever Rock Picker Ideas? in reply to Jim, 09-16-2003 14:37:35  
I'm getting ready to start on one a little smaller that is based on the idea of a pull behind yard sweeper. They have a set of wheels driving a rotary broom (similar to a old rotary lawn mower) then a bag or cart low to the ground that the broom throws the rocks onto the main change will be springs instead of brushes spining. I was also wondering if any one had ever used a hay rake to gather them in a pile.

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Pete/ME

09-18-2003 03:42:30




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 Re: Clever Rock Picker Ideas? in reply to Jim, 09-16-2003 14:37:35  
For the smaller stuff, I windrow with a York rake and scoop them up in the loader bucket, and dig the big ones out with the bucket.



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VaTom

09-17-2003 17:58:08




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 Re: Clever Rock Picker Ideas? in reply to Jim, 09-16-2003 14:37:35  
When I was picking an industrial loader, the seller offered another one, too large for me, equipped with a screen that fit inside the 12' bucket. It used extra hydraulics to lift the screen, leaving the dirt behind. Didn't see it operate but he'd bought it for one job which paid the several thousand cost. This commercial unit was set to catch maybe 4" rocks but as long as the soil was loose could have been made finer. You could make one for your loader. Dirt goes into one pile, rocks another.

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Jim

09-17-2003 18:09:38




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 Re: Re: Clever Rock Picker Ideas? in reply to VaTom, 09-17-2003 17:58:08  
How good a look did you get? I'm imagining a screen hinged just behind the cutting blade, that sits near the bottom of the bucket (full depth), and via hydraulics, dumps the rocks (without the bucket moving at all). Or am I seeing wrong?



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VaTom

09-18-2003 05:12:18




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 Re: Re: Re: Clever Rock Picker Ideas? in reply to Jim, 09-17-2003 18:09:38  
You're pretty close but hinged on the other side. It was another bucket, built of maybe 3/4" rod that fit snugly inside the loader. The rock catcher raised over the dirt bucket with, I'd guess, the dirt bucket being dumped first. He demonstrated it for me, hoping I'd be interested. $13k seemed pretty cheap, but too big for my place. I gathered he earned over $20k in one week running it at a gov't facility.

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Taylor Lambert

09-18-2003 13:58:14




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Clever Rock Picker Ideas? in reply to VaTom, 09-18-2003 05:12:18  
Ive seen what you are talking about, Its one Rockland Manufacturings web page. THey work good from what ive been told. I had a friend with a 544 Deere loader that had a dirst bucket but the liner was removable and it has a sifting becket behind it. I used it in a silt clean up job on a farm along a creek. Just set the bucket level and drive it sifted the stones from 3 inches and up and alot of sticks and other debris.

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Charlie

09-17-2003 06:42:11




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 Re: Clever Rock Picker Ideas? in reply to Jim, 09-16-2003 14:37:35  
I'll bet I have even more rocks than you, or at least as many (NH). It's too much of a pain to put the backhoe attachment on my TD-340 loader with any frequency. Something that hooks over the bucket so you can mount it without even getting out of the seat would be great, which is the way I built a fork attachment. I don't have much to offer, but I'll be interested in any other responses.



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