Advice on a rocky field?!

[Yale]

@Kevtherev

 

[milkloss]

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.

Your Uncle and my Father would have been peas in a pod. Good old days they would have been.

 

[Dry Rot]

Your Uncle and my Father would have been peas in a pod. Good old days they would have been.

Yep, elf and safety wasn't even a twinkle back in those days. Uncle used to go fishing with hand grenades and we had free .22 ammo by the bucketful that kept us going well into the '70s!

 

[puppet]

It depends what you are doing with the field. If grazing then just leave them. If cutting then either remember where they are are stick old electric pole over them.

 

[farmerm]

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.

plan again

 

[Chae1]

Just get a contractor in to plough it.

 

[defender]

Dig a deep hole beside it and roll it in to it

 

[jellybean]

Forget farming it and open a quarry.

 

[Bald Rick]

Leave them be. Only 5 acres and wet so enter it into an environmental scheme as you could spend an awful lot of money to no end trying to turn the field into something useable. Not everything can be farmed

 

[caveman]

Leave them be. Only 5 acres and wet so enter it into an environmental scheme as you could spend an awful lot of money to no end trying to turn the field into something useable. Not everything can be farmed

Exactly.
Has it been assessed for crested newts etc?
Probably only half an inch of topsoil anyways.
Could earn a lot more money as candidate for land raising with muck away perhaps.

 

[Exfarmer]

We had stumps taken out with Gelignite many years ago, as a 10 year old boy thought it was wonderful, especially when the man with the gelly threw a stick for Father to catch, never seen him run so fast. He showed us it was safe till he put the detonator in even let me push the handle.
Father was not so impressed when we had 20 odd wet spots for years after as the blast compacted the clay round the stump hole

 

[curlietailz]

We have boulder clay here and regularly pull up large stones. This picture was a memorable one coz it gave me a fright.
Ploughed it up.... all the legs popped up , the tractor lurched and this thing just flipped out onto the top.... must have caught the edge somehow

I’m collecting the big ones for a monumental rockery in my garden. Ha ha.

 

[MF 168]

Dig a deep hole beside it and roll it in to it

This here ^^. I buried some huge boulders earlier this year with EX120. Just dug a deep hole and pushed them in. Rocks the size of a fiesta. Not bad for a handy digger.

 

[Dry Rot]

We had stumps taken out with Gelignite many years ago, as a 10 year old boy thought it was wonderful, especially when the man with the gelly threw a stick for Father to catch, never seen him run so fast. He showed us it was safe till he put the detonator in even let me push the handle.
Father was not so impressed when we had 20 odd wet spots for years after as the blast compacted the clay round the stump hole

Since my uncle had sticks of gelignite rattling around in the Landrover, I've learnt that it is indeed stable -- until it starts weeping nitro-glycerine due to age and hot weather!!!

A neighbour told me that the electric board used to use explosives to compact wet ground so they could dig a hole for a pole. Back then, it was all done manually. I'm told it is also a good way to make duck ponds as the pond will become lined naturally due to compression of the soil.

 

[glasshouse]

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.

Pics pls
Big digger or good old jelly

 

[glasshouse]

I have book somewhere outlining the use of explosives for cultivation.

 

[SMID]

One of the benefits of this being a coal mining area NCB were quite generous with dynamite and dets correct @Dry Rot it used to sweat nitro . We got through it quick enough so it was never a problem.

 

[czechmate]

It depends what you are doing with the field. If grazing then just leave them. If cutting then either remember where they are are stick old electric pole over them.

Yes. Problem is with an ageing memory. I did a large amount of damage to a baker pick up

 

[Tim Howard]

I did some work sub-soiling 1 mt deep with a 5 leg for the forestry commission a few years back.
1 patch I did dragged up boulders every 50 yards that were testing a big loader, some he had to push away as they were to heavy. If you think you can sell them then give it a go, I have an big single leg machine that will go down to a meter if you have a big tractor.

 

[colhonk]

I’m collecting the big ones for a monumental rockery in my garden. Ha ha

Put it on a pallet and send it back to where it came from