Rock Removal?

[BlacknTan]

You want to remove rocks??

I recently bought a Heavy Hitch with the subsoiler attachment. I was absolutely amazed at the ease with which this implement rolls pretty big goonies out of the ground, and without any digging or manual labor whatsoever. Worth it's weight in gold to me!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

For rocks like that, I push my pallet forks together, shove them under the rock, close the grapple on the rock and back up. It pulls the rock right out of the ground, and I can drive away with it.

It works perfectly!

SR

 

[PILOON]

I made a HD 'tooth' that I clamp onto my FEL bucket.
Used an old axle shaft that was about 1 inch in diameter and 16" long.
Since it was tossed together in about 1/2 hr or so it is not pretty but sure does the trick.
I drive it in and under the rock and tilt my bucket with the heel resting on the ground.
I have 'popped' up to 2ft rocks that are mostly buried with relative ease.\
That big 'tooth' is also great for smallish saplings, cedars and firs.
Usually the saplings come out clean without clumps of soil.

Since I am driving a single tooth penetration is good and relatively easy.

 

[CADplans]

I made a HD 'tooth' that I clamp onto my FEL bucket.

Since I am driving a single tooth penetration is good and relatively easy.

Any pictures??

 

[oosik]

I "worked" on a two acre meadow on my property. Bottom plow, then disk harrow, then landscape rake, finally home-made drag. It looked pretty good when I was finished. Over the winter something happened - my pretty field had a brand new crop of rocks. The winter snows & rains exposed an entire field of new rocks.

I give up - its only me out here and I've learned to live with my little hard pasture friends. The neighboring homestead(1895) had 5 or 6 sons and MILES of stone fences. They also had at least two horse/mule drawn rock sleds.

I even looked at one of those mechanical rock picking machines. Besides being too expensive - they basically only "pick" rocks on the surface.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I made a HD 'tooth' that I clamp onto my FEL bucket.
Used an old axle shaft that was about 1 inch in diameter and 16" long.
Since it was tossed together in about 1/2 hr or so it is not pretty but sure does the trick.
I drive it in and under the rock and tilt my bucket with the heel resting on the ground.
I have 'popped' up to 2ft rocks that are mostly buried with relative ease.\
That big 'tooth' is also great for smallish saplings, cedars and firs.
Usually the saplings come out clean without clumps of soil.

Since I am driving a single tooth penetration is good and relatively easy.

Why wouldn't a single pallet fork do the same thing??

On MY tractor, I do that with both of them on, pushed together.

SR

 

[cabover4us]

I read that second to last post and I was belly laughing.....
I've been on here a while and contribute some, but I can't compete to the natural witt on here, very funny and enjoyable not to mention great information.

 

[LouNY]

If you want to pick rocks;
Step #1 mouldboard plow
Step #2 use a spring tooth harrow, multiple times in different directions across your field
Step #3 pick rocks to your hearts content any way you wish, rock picker, rock bucket
Step #4 repeat step #2
Step #5 repeat step #3
and continue as long as you wish,
if you run out of rocks, get a bigger tractor and larger plows to plow just a bit deeper and start all over.

 

[ArlyA]

That's exactly how we hope & plan to pull larger rocks out via sub-soiler. Do wish you'd have shown a "before" photo of that rock.

Thanks for posting this blacknTan

You want to remove rocks??

I recently bought a Heavy Hitch with the subsoiler attachment. I was absolutely amazed at the ease with which this implement rolls pretty big goonies out of the ground, and without any digging or manual labor whatsoever. Worth it's weight in gold to me!
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[CobyRupert]

I "worked" on a two acre meadow on my property.... It looked pretty good when I was finished. Over the winter something happened - my pretty field had a brand new crop of rocks. The winter snows & rains exposed an entire field of new rocks.

I was always told that's because you left a few small stones and pebbles behind. If you don't get those, they grow into big rocks by the next season.