Advice on a rocky field?!

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Stephen Ballantine

New Member

• Dec 20, 2018

• #1

Hi there basically I have a rocky, wet field around 5 acres. I plan on ploughing it next year however there some large rocks in it. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of them? Personally I was thinking of a rock breaker on a digger ? Thanks

 

Derrick Hughes

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Location

Ceredigion

• Dec 20, 2018

• #2

Stone picker

 

smcapstick

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Location

Kirkby Lonsdale

• Dec 20, 2018

• #3

Pick them.

Or, if they’re too heavy, use a loader or digger.

 

49801

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Cork Ireland

• Dec 20, 2018

• #4

Can u have a tractor with a stone fork there as it is being ploughed. Or better yet a digger with a back actor. It’s handy to be able to pick the worst as the plow finds them

 

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Stephen Ballantine

New Member

• Dec 20, 2018

• #5

They are half above ground and under ground , I've tried a digger in the past but it's no good to them as there to big.

 

Jones24

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Livestock Farmer

• Dec 21, 2018

• #6

Stephen Ballantine said:

They are half above ground and under ground , I've tried a digger in the past but it's no good to them as there to big.

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I would just get a bigger digger.... Pull them up and do what you like with them after. Sea defence.fill a hole.. level uneven ground.. river bank ect

 

milkloss

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

East Sussex

• Dec 21, 2018

• #7

Explosives

 

Shutesy

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Arable Farmer

Location

Essex/Herts Border

• Dec 21, 2018

• #8

milkloss said:

Explosives

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and a video camera

 

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer

Location

East Sussex

• Dec 21, 2018

• #9

Shutesy said:

and a video camera

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Old man used to clear out dykes and tree stumps years ago when things were a little easier to get hold of. Had a whale of a time by all accounts

 

49801

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Cork Ireland

• Dec 21, 2018

• #10

Bonfire and a tanker of water supposed to be a good job to break stone!

 

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer

Location

East Sussex

• Dec 21, 2018

• #11

Now this thread is getting interesting and more fun!

 

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Deerefarmer

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Location

USA

• Dec 21, 2018

• #12

you have options.

Both would be very satisfying.

 

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Rod Dumbreck

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Location

Edenbridge, Kent (actually just in Surrey)

• Dec 21, 2018

• #13

I ploughed a field that a farmer had just taken on from the estate locally. I was told it was rocky and had a kver auto reset plough on the job. When the rocks were so big they jammed in between the furrows, I took them across to the headland to get them out. Needless to say I had charged a bit more than the going rate, but it should have been more, because I passed him on the road with a three tonne Fergie trailer on his way to the garden centre. I think he was slightly embarrassed to have more than covered my bill with the first load.

Anyone for prime Kentish Ragstone

 

smcapstick

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Location

Kirkby Lonsdale

• Dec 21, 2018

• #14

Stephen Ballantine said:

They are half above ground and under ground , I've tried a digger in the past but it's no good to them as there to big.

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Then use a bigger digger? Or leave them. They're really your only options.

 

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graham99

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• Dec 21, 2018

• #15

milkloss said:

Old man used to clear out dykes and tree stumps years ago when things were a little easier to get hold of. Had a whale of a time by all accounts

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there are parts of nz that could only be drained with explosive's

 

czechmate

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Limousin/Charentes toad land

• Dec 21, 2018

• #16

smcapstick said:

Then use a bigger digger? Or leave them. They're really your only options.

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I have a field as the op describes. The rocks can be very large but it’s not strong. So I have wondered, as he writes in the op, about a breaker on the digger to make them manageable to remove. This field of mine is never high enough up the list of jobs to get around to

 

smcapstick

Member

Location

Kirkby Lonsdale

• Dec 21, 2018

• #17

czechmate said:

I have a field as the op describes. The rocks can be very large but it’s not strong. So I have wondered, as he writes in the op, about a breaker on the digger to make them manageable to remove. This field of mine is never high enough up the list of jobs to get around to

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You'd have to dig all the way around them to allow the rock to break, if you were going to attack it with a pecker. That said, some of the bits could be left in the bottom of the hole.

It's making a big job out of it, though

 

kiwi pom

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Location

canterbury NZ

• Dec 21, 2018

• #18

milkloss said:

Explosives

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Blaster Bates used to make a living out of shifting things like that
Might need a risk assessment and Hi viz these days

 

caveman

Member

Location

East Sussex.

• Dec 21, 2018

• #19

Could be a hard labour option for inmates of a local prison?
Even community service sentances.

 

Dry Rot

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Scottish Highlands

• Dec 21, 2018

• #20

Used to be able to get gelignite for that purpose! I remember little brown packages rattling around on the front shelf of my uncle's Landrover over 60 years ago and being told it was quite safe as the stuff is stable! I even found a couple of packs on the shelf in the workshop. He blew one rock having carefully parked the LR over 100 yards away (no meters back then). A large rock smashed the wind screen. Somehow today's rock solutions don't sound nearly as exciting.