Best attachment for digging out rocks?

[oosik]

I will use the shank from my moldboard plow to "loosen up" a single big boulder. Then spin around and pick it up with my grapple. If it's a continuous field of rocks - loosen with the shank - scoop up with the bucket on the FEL. Take care not to over stress the FEL/bucket. Remember it's a tractor - not a bull dozer.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Backhoe attachment.

 

[RSR]

I will use the shank from my moldboard plow to "loosen up" a single big boulder. Then spin around and pick it up with my grapple. If it's a continuous field of rocks - loosen with the shank - scoop up with the bucket on the FEL. Take care not to over stress the FEL/bucket. Remember it's a tractor - not a bull dozer.

Therein lies the challenge. The rocks are so dense it's very easy to, when digging, catch a bucket edge on a rock and start torquing the loader if you aren't careful. After backing out and approaching it from another angle, another edge catches another rock ...

I've wondered how effective a stump bucket might be, as it's so much narrower you are less likely to hit multiple rocks, and you wouldn't run as much risk of torqueing the loader either because it is narrower.

 

[RSR]

I will use the shank from my moldboard plow to "loosen up" a single big boulder. Then spin around and pick it up with my grapple. If it's a continuous field of rocks - loosen with the shank - scoop up with the bucket on the FEL. Take care not to over stress the FEL/bucket. Remember it's a tractor - not a bull dozer.

Is a moldboard plow effective for bringing up smaller (softball to basketball) rocks to the surface? Most of the rocks are basketball size, with smaller ones intermixed, and the occasional mini refrigerator size.

I like the idea of potentially being able to use the plow (if effective) for smaller stuff, and if I run into a bigger one, take it off and use the shank to loosen up around it.

It seems being able to pull with the tractor, as opposed to push with the loader, will put a lot less stress on things as, after all, that's how it was designed to work.

 

[mogwai]

what about putting pallet forks close together and poking around to loosen rodks?

 

[cglaser104]

Backhoe mounted Root Ripper

With a thumb

 

[m7040]

I have dug out rocks as large as 10000 lbs or so much bigger than the FEL could lift by digging down on both sides of the rock and creating a ramp to push it up to ground level. Also have a bucket to mount on the FEL that has a very narrow 12 inch tip mounted with sturdy teeth that works very well for rocks weighing up to several hundred lbs. For difficult stumps and rocks I use the KX 33-4 excavator. And then there is dynamite

 

[PILOON]

Just yesterday I dug out rocks that would not fit the bucket using the big tooth.
I then proceeded to flip/roll them into position. That was to block roadway. Big and heavy enough that only machinery could displace them.
We wanted to deny access to out lake so as to prevent contamination from invasive weeds.

 

[fried1765]

Backhoe attachment.

Obviously!
I LOVE my 11' dig backhoe!

 

[m7040]

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This is the bucket I use most to dig out rocks