Rock Removal?

[rmarut]

I've been searching the web high and low, but can't find a attachment to either a skidsteer or tractor that has an attachment that can remove rocks from a field easily. Can someone help me?

 

[CADplans]

Rent a small excavator,, with a thumb,, and set the rocks in your trailer,,

 

[rmarut]

their about soft ball to football sized rocks! Dont need a thumb for that!

 

[Brazos by Nemo]

Rock bucket?

 

[jcummins]

Google rock picker, various designs and brands

 

[LindenBruce]

Like a landscape rake? B.

 

[Rara Avis]

How big a field?
If it is acres then you want one of these...
Degelman(R) Rock Removal - Kelly Tractor Co.

Small areas...you could use rock forks...
HLA Attachments - Stone Fork - Rock Bucket (Retainer Style Tine) - HEAVY DUTY

 

[Sawyer Rob]

ALO makes a bucket/rock forks that works pretty good...

SR

 

[Z-Michigan]

I've been searching the web high and low, but can't find a attachment to either a skidsteer or tractor that has an attachment that can remove rocks from a field easily. Can someone help me?

their about soft ball to football sized rocks! Dont need a thumb for that!

We had this issue at our first farm. I really wanted a rock bucket, but didn't get one and I doubt it would have done what I wanted.

Your best bet is large quantities of cheap human labor. Kids, grandkids, hired help or whatever. That's the only way to get it done without ripping up lots of ground.

If the rocks are simply lying on the ground, loose and out of the soil, a landscape rake would be worth a try.

If the rocks are buried and half-buried, which is the typical rocky farm field, then the brute force approach would be to plow the entire field with something like a chisel plow or scarifier to loosen the rocks and bring them up, then go through with a mechanical rockpicker, a rock bucket (slow), or a landscape rake (inconsistent). This will require several passes using a lot of fuel and totally disrupt any existing vegetation. The result would be sort of like a plowed field, but probably rougher. If you want a plowed field anyway and can spend the money on the equipment then this would be fine, you just follow with a disc and a harrow and plant your new crop. If you didn't want a plowed rough field, well you have one anyway.

We all want things done quick and easy these days, but if you look at older farm fields that started out rocky, you'll find endless piles of rocks around the edges and middle trees, and most likely it got rock-picked not in one year, not in 5 years, but over many decades of plowing and use.

 

[Zick]

Rockhound will work on most rocks up to about ~8"

RockHound Landscape Rake >> National Attachments Inc.