Gary Fowler
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- Joined
- Jun 23, 2008
- Messages
- 11,917
- Location
- Bismarck Arkansas
- Tractor
- 2009 Kubota RTV 900, 2009 Kubota B26 TLB & 2010 model LS P7010
I am trying to put in a new garden spot previously just pasture grass. I have disked it , tilled it, used cultivators, and finally resorted to scarifiers on box blade trying to get up the rocks. Each piece of equipment would turn up a few small rocks. The cultivators went the deepest and turned up some rock but broke bolts in the mounts everytime it hit a large one. Finally I thought the box blade would hole together. I made one pass about 100 feet on each leg and broke two scarifiers. Got to do some welding on those for an hour or so then back to the rock pit. The welds held up and this time I decided to go across the run and it worked pretty good uprooting about a RTV box load but one area had a rock I couldn't move so I got the Kubota B26 and used the hoe. Well one rock lead to another and another until out of a spot about 8 feet in diameter, I got 2 FEL loads of rocks plus about a half load in the RTV. After moving all those, some of which I had to use the backhoe with thumb to lift, my back was a bit sore and I called it a day and hit the Tylenol bottle.
This morning I went at it again. I started dragging the box blade but saw that I was hitting more rocks in the same area as yesterday. I went back for the TLB and it was a repeat from yesterday. I pulled out at least 2 more FEL loads of rocks from one spot about 6 feet x 10 feet. I decided then that I would till the rest of the garden spot with the back hoe, digging, remove the rocks and level up. So far today I have done about half of it with only a smattering of rocks on the rest of it and very scattered. The back hoe does a good job of turning the soil over for sure, deeper than a plow would have gone. I may have missed a few small ones but I got the large stuff that was banging up my tiller. Next fall I am going to do my other garden spot the same way.
This morning I went at it again. I started dragging the box blade but saw that I was hitting more rocks in the same area as yesterday. I went back for the TLB and it was a repeat from yesterday. I pulled out at least 2 more FEL loads of rocks from one spot about 6 feet x 10 feet. I decided then that I would till the rest of the garden spot with the back hoe, digging, remove the rocks and level up. So far today I have done about half of it with only a smattering of rocks on the rest of it and very scattered. The back hoe does a good job of turning the soil over for sure, deeper than a plow would have gone. I may have missed a few small ones but I got the large stuff that was banging up my tiller. Next fall I am going to do my other garden spot the same way.