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[EddieWalker]

I like your massive rock sticking out from your lawn. We don't have any rocks here. Just red clay, iron ore and sand. We have to get our rocks from Oklahoma, or farther away. Rocks are very expensive here in East Texas.

 

[plastikosmd]

Ones I got are smaller

That one is at a park where I decided to jog

Then walk

Then complain

A lot

 

[daugen]

in coastal NC local saying was you couldn't buy a rock.
There were none, had to go West to mid state or the mountains.

I grew up in this town in Eastern PA granite, shale and clay. 3 gravel quarries within ten miles.
you planted trees (in the 50's...) with a shovel, steel bar and a pickaxe.
in NC planting my fruit orchard I grinned the whole time as the earth just flowed
up the auger and spilled out. Like sand...
so easy to dig in, simply a dream for a gardener.
Roots will always get you but a big rock will stop you.
then the tractor has to come out.

would have loved to have had a dream shop like OP.
Almost built a man cave in NC next to the barn.
bought a new Massey 4707 instead. I knew my priorities...
so I got my dream tractor and not my dream shop.

now some of us live happily and vicariously through your adventures.
Keep them coming please.

 

[kwbretired]

Eddiewalker you can com get all the rocks you want here in north central Arkansas, they grow up here.

 

[two_bit_score]

I like your massive rock sticking out from your lawn. We don't have any rocks here. Just red clay, iron ore and sand. We have to get our rocks from Oklahoma, or farther away. Rocks are very expensive here in East Texas.

When cleaning up some new ground we rounded up a bunch of iron ore rocks and thought we might be able to sell them to a landscape store. They weren’t interested. Said the local rocks were too heavy (they are). Said they buy their rocks from Oklahoma because they are lighter and cheap. Surprised me.

 

[bindian]

Texas..........bigger or in this case, heavier.
I got a huge chunk of Centerville iron ore that holds my loader forks upright when off the loader.

 

[plastikosmd]

Good days and bad, but I got a bit of shop time in.

Sickle bar broke in the fall.
Time to make a new one.
Now waiting on some 7/32 stock to make my rivets.

The 3/16 ones I had on hand are a bit too small

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Prayers you get feeling better.

Maybe 12-15 years ago, for my 9' Deere 350, I bought a new whole knifeback bar with new section cutters for about $140. I see now they are $250.

 

[Camofurever1]

I like your massive rock sticking out from your lawn. We don't have any rocks here. Just red clay, iron ore and sand. We have to get our rocks from Oklahoma, or farther away. Rocks are very expensive here in East Texas.

I'll trade you a couple or 12 truckloads of Tennessee gray limestone rock for some truck loads of Texas red clay. I need to build a pond dam, but rock just ain't cutting it. I prefer the clay be fire-ant-less.....

 

[bindian]

I don't ever remember seeing a red fire ant mound.