Removing the rocks

[FL_Cracker]

I have purchased them from both Home Depot and Lowes. They sell them in Lawn & Garden to pick up trash. The one that works the best is a black plastic handle with a pistol grip, aluminum tube main stem and the clamp section has two suction cups on each side. It looks like it's for paper but I have picked up so many rocks I can tell you they work great. Pick-em up, in the 5 gal. bucket until you can't carry it, dump them in the RTV.... Start over again..... /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[TractorLegend]

Hire the local church youth group

<font color="red"> </font> Youth is wasted on the young

 

[beenthere]

Here is one for a skid steer.
http://www.pikrite.net/demo.asp

I can't find a pic, but I have seen some that are for a 3pt, and there is a 'basket'-like scoop made of bars that won't let the larger rocks fall through. Dip it into the ground, and scoop up rocks. If sod, then probably some sod comes with the rocks. There are no moving parts like the above site shows.

 

[LarryD]

I rented one of these several years ago and had pretty good luck with it. It won't handle the 12"+ rocks very well but collects the smaller ones very nicely.

That was three years ago and I have a whole new crop ready for harvest /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif it only collects them from the surface.

 

[RedRocker]

I have a little bit of dirt mixed in with my rocks. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Egon]

This is the type of rock picker I was thinking about.

web page

Search the net. Lots of hits and lots of designs.

Egon

 

[FL_Cracker]

The problem is that all of these items pick rocks out of fresh turn dirt. We(I think this is what Rick means) need to get the out of an existing pasture. They just keep coming to the surface, more & more every year.

I don't know if their is anything you can do that won't tear up the grass, short of going back to the hand pickup process.........

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[beenthere]

I agree with that.

The ones I was talking about are bigger than the 'pick by hand' variety, and are pushed up by frost, not eroded up by rain and animal traffic. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

A type like a golf-ball picker might get some, but not being the same size, I doubt that too.

Get the bucket!

 

[rickmacheske]

Hmmm....guess I'm going to have to figure out how to pick up rocks by hand without getting off my tractor.... I was thinking about something like a bucket for the FEL that is tines rather than solid.... Please don't tell my wife about this. She'll make me get off the tractor...

 

[JeepOne]

I would think something like this would work for a compact tractor. Anyone up to building one?

Rock picking the easy way