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Question For the Farmers
I had to drive through a 1/4 section yesterday that was simply black dirt. It felt like driving through snow. Every now and then I would stop to pick up a large stone to be used for some landscaping back home. It reminded me of all the times I heard someone talk about how hard it was to "pick rocks" for a day or more.
My question is simple. Has anyone invented a machine or tractor attachment that picks rocks? Thanks.
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08-21-2017, 05:15 PM
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They most certainly have. They work very well depending on the size of the "nugget". In a rocky quarter they pop up every year with the frost. Depends on the crop or hay but fuel/machinery costs will dictate how often you can go over it. Also depends on the size of the rocks. I've found some native hammerheads and grinders...actually have a good collection.
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08-21-2017, 05:20 PM
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About 25 years ago we were with a relative hunting just north of Buffalo and came upon a large pile of stones on the prairie near a gate we were going though. I made the comment "Looks like a lot of work" to which he replied ..."Yup, he hasn't had time to spread them" 
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08-21-2017, 05:28 PM
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Mechanical rock pickers have been available for over 50 years.
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08-21-2017, 05:32 PM
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Rock pickers have been around for many years,it was me and my cousins.My back still hurts.
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08-21-2017, 05:33 PM
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I never knew a machine existed until i seen one in a canada day parade in the country. About 25 years ago.
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08-21-2017, 07:08 PM
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My question
Have you been living under a rock?
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08-21-2017, 07:10 PM
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I once asked my dad why we could not have a rock picker like uncle Albert does. His reply was, "I already have three". Picked more rocks than I want to remember.
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08-21-2017, 07:42 PM
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Told my OM it was kinda pointless to pick rock because every rock I picked up to throw on the stone boat had moisture underneath and we always seemed to need more moisture not less in Southern Alberta. He told me to keep picking rocks.
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08-21-2017, 08:05 PM
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Very classy, about what you would expect from trip 4's.
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Thanks guys, Esp TM for the pics. My wife, who grew up on a farm here in AB and spent a lot of time picking rocks, was surprised to here they have been around for so long.
She figures they either didn't work very well, or were too expensive for the average farmer to buy.
P.S. When I laughingly told her that mechanical rock pickers have been around since before she was born, she "HUH"me, and said that is a crock of chit. LOL I told her to google it.
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We had one at the golf course but adding more sand seemed to fix the bunkers for longer. Though a feild would probably allow for more versatility. Essatially the machine just sifted the sand
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08-21-2017, 08:14 PM
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Thanks guys, Esp TM for the pics. My wife, who grew up on a farm here in AB and spent a lot of time picking rocks, was surprised to here they have been around for so long.
She figures they either didn't work very well, or were too expensive for the average farmer to buy.
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Yep ! Kids were a lot cheaper ! 
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08-21-2017, 08:22 PM
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Yep ! Kids were a lot cheaper ! |
Nowadays that would mean they could pick rocks from thier laptops
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08-21-2017, 08:25 PM
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We were free and had a fun time doing it....go figure 
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08-21-2017, 08:49 PM
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Forgot the pic of the rock windrower.
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You wanna see rocks ? check out the fields on Mc Dougall Flats, west of Sundre. 
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You wanna see rocks ? check out the fields on Mc Dougall Flats, west of Sundre.
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Lol. I'll tell you about rocks. Found one that I thought would make a nice yard rock once. It was all a 270 hitachi hoe could do to lift it high enough to back my tandem goose neck under. When I set it on the trailer and let go the rock rolled and nicely bent my trailer in half.
Farmer neighbor had a rock in his field that he was tired of farming around. Started digging it out. Dug and dug and finally found the bottom. It was to big to roll out so dug a hole beside it. Took a d8,d6 and 336 hoe to roll it into the hole.
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08-21-2017, 09:35 PM
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Told my OM it was kinda pointless to pick rock because every rock I picked up to throw on the stone boat had moisture underneath and we always seemed to need more moisture not less in Southern Alberta. He told me to keep picking rocks.
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Stone boat. Now there is a term I haven't thought of for years. And yes, I remember.
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08-21-2017, 10:01 PM
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under a bridge,
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08-22-2017, 07:48 AM
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Stone boat. Now there is a term I haven't thought of for years. And yes, I remember.
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Gawd, me and my brothers following Dad in the tractor hauling a stone boat. Never ending job up in the mountain country by Smithers B.C. We grew a lot of rocks there. Tough country to get a fence post in too.
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Gawd, me and my brothers following Dad in the tractor hauling a stone boat. Never ending job up in the mountain country by Smithers B.C. We grew a lot of rocks there. Tough country to get a fence post in too.
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I would rather put rocks on a stoneboat than ride a stooker behind a square baler.
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I would rather put rocks on a stoneboat than ride a stooker behind a square baler.
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Oh lord, did that every summer on our place then the next door ranch. 20 bale stooker on slopie ground, every second one would tip over when you released it.
Go out after dinner and redo the basterds. I was real happy when we finally got a round baler.
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Yup!
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Rock pickers have been around for many years,it was me and my cousins.My back still hurts.
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Amen to that.
Used to pick rocks for my Gido.
That's a hard day. Legal system should have inmate work gangs doin stuff like that.
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Amen to that.
Used to pick rocks for my Gido.
That's a hard day. Legal system should have inmate work gangs doin stuff like that.
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That would never fly, inmates have rights, farm boys don`t.
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08-22-2017, 11:48 AM
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I would rather put rocks on a stoneboat than ride a stooker behind a square baler.
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Been there, done both, threw out the t-shirt decades ago. Gest thing about the "Good Old Days" is that they're old never to be seen again.
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They also make skid steer buckets for this. We have a few at work we rent out.
Work good for smaller areas
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Stone boat. Now there is a term I haven't thought of for years. And yes, I remember.
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Me too. Behind a team of horses.
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