Harvesting stones

[glasshouse]

Whats the best method/ machine?
A stone rake or a destoner on ridges?
Need the stone for a road etc

 

[Hilly]

Kivi Pekka are good.

 

[Hilly]

Hobbs hire on facebook …

 

[Bury the Trash]

these are a good lads but not Scotland granted.

would depend on the size of stones needing to be dealt with as well i guess.

 

[Hilly]

these are a good lads but not Scotland granted.

I’ve hired one three times in past , must be really dry they do not like damp soils

 

[Speedstar]

Whats the best method/ machine?
A stone rake or a destoner on ridges?
Need the stone for a road etc

We have one if you are needing some lifted

 

[cb387]

Would these machines work on stubbles after harvest to take the loose stones off the top. ( combine / bale / light cultivation) Videos always show them on fields with no crop residue

 

[DieselRob]

Would these machines work on stubbles after harvest to take the loose stones off the top. ( combine / bale / light cultivation) Videos always show them on fields with no crop residue

Also interested in the answer to this, I’m direct drilling with a tine drill that flicks them out on to the surface but I don’t really want to rip the land up and beat it to a powder with a power harrow just to pick the stones out

 

[Hilly]

Would these machines work on stubbles after harvest to take the loose stones off the top. ( combine / bale / light cultivation) Videos always show them on fields with no crop residue

Probably , best would be a triple k on the front to just loosen them and lift them onto surface a bit

 

[Hilly]

You wouldn’t be able to set it very low as it might row up stubble/roots and choke the chute even if it didn’t choke to much trash leave ridges down field but you could set it just right …. Drier better

 

[melted welly]

Whats the best method/ machine?
A stone rake or a destoner on ridges?
Need the stone for a road etc

Scanstone do an elevator that fits a stone separator. Might need further cleaning depending on soil type (clods).

Or an old Reekie reliance separator plus elevator off an old harvester and diy.

 

[glasshouse]

I had a reekie with a cart rlevator yrs ago and sold it

 

[glasshouse]

Probably , best would be a triple k on the front to just loosen them and lift them onto surface a bit

No need for triple k to lift them!!

 

[Danllan]

Whats the best method/ machine?
A stone rake or a destoner on ridges?
Need the stone for a road etc

Can't comment on the best kit since it's decades since I had anything to do with it, but...

I do remember my father saying that if stone had been taken from a field in living memory it should only be taken once every seven years. If there was no knowledge of it being taken, he reckoned you could do it one year and the next and then get onto the seven year cycle.

We did it for flint on the edge of the Chilterns - occasional massive puddingstones came up too - so I don't know if that rule was / is purely a local or a general one. Can't say I ever saw any field - ours or anyone else's locally - that ever seemed short of flint, and all the tracks and yards had them in a decent thickness, maybe eighteen inches + in places.

 

[glasshouse]

We have one if you are needing some lifted

A stone seperator or other?

 

[Speedstar]

A stone seperator or other?

A Kiri-Pekka one like in the photo above

 

[Speedstar]

Kivi Pekka are good.

Like this @glasshouse

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Ive seen farmers used those rotary road formers to bust the stones up
Dont take to many stones of or you will have problems with compaction , unless its very light land

 

[glasshouse]

Ive seen farmers used those rotary road formers to bust the stones up
Dont take to many stones of or you will have problems with compaction , unless its very light land

 

[chipchap]

Ive seen farmers used those rotary road formers to bust the stones up
Dont take to many stones of or you will have problems with compaction , unless its very light land

The problem with removing stones with a potato destoner is that the soil profile needs to be worked to a fine tilth, and all the soil structure is destroyed. It takes a while for the structure to recover depending on soil type and texture.
It is a similar problem for soils after growing potatoes.