Last thread was deleted! Anyone used a gremme destoner

[Joe will]

Anyone ever used and had much luck running a destoner over Cotswold style brash. How small lumps can I expect to be picked and I'm I best ploughing first or can they be run on min till?

 

[Gong Farmer]

Taking stones out of Cotswold brash doesn't leave much.

 

[Spud]

Anyone ever used and had much luck running a destoner over Cotswold style brash. How small lumps can I expect to be picked and I'm I best ploughing first or can they be run on min till?

I assume you mean a Grimme destoner, as one would use for potatoes? They're not really suited to harvesting stone really, more designed for laying it in a trench. Typical web size is 42-44mm, which is a 32mm gap, it wouldn't leave much on Cotswold brash even if you could get it into a trailer. You'd need to cultivate it fine and ridge it up in front of the destoner, and fit some kind of elevator like this old reekie at York last week

You'd be a lot better with something like a Kongskilde stone bear like this https://www.kongskilde.com/us/en-US...ollecting/Stone-Collecting/STONEBEAR-2,-d-,60

 

[Ruston3w]

As above Reekie made a cart elevator for old style machines (200/230/300/330) cheap enough to find but getting old now. The elevator is swing round not Swan neck so fixed hight......you soon fill a trailer!
Only good news is that you don't have to bother with ringing, just run wheel to wheel and scoop up however deep you want. Done plenty with a 230, quite rewarding but need 2 trailers or patient driver.

 

[Spud]

As above Reekie made a cart elevator for old style machines (200/230/300/330) cheap enough to find but getting old now. The elevator is swing round not Swan neck so fixed hight......you soon fill a trailer!
Only good news is that you don't have to bother with ringing, just run wheel to wheel and scoop up however deep you want. Done plenty with a 230, quite rewarding but need 2 trailers or patient driver.

Do you not run over stone if you don't create wheel ways with a ridger first?

 

[Joe will]

Now we're talking on the same wave, so we do think it's do able. I wondered if there would be a need to ridge if ploughed as it would be soft. Yes you wouldn't pull stone from the wheel passages but that you could over lap or miss. I thought I could use the normal elevator and stick a telihandler under and just run it to the edge of the feild or in to a trailer. Got 10 or so acres were it's fairly rich in stone and though for the works versus cost might be an idea.

Though actual stone collectors id hire one but can't find one in the UK yet.

 

[Spud]

Contractors machine locally. Soon gets a box full as he takes 6m a time. Without a hopper it'd take forever to get anything done

 

[Joe will]

What part of the world are you spud? Any idea of the manufacturer?

 

[Ruston3w]

We quite often failed to make headland with 6t dump trailer taking 5' ish at 10". Gravel ( small) not your sort of stuff.

 

[Spud]

What part of the world are you spud? Any idea of the manufacturer?

Half way between York and Scarborough. Kongskilde is the manufacturer

 

[Joe will]

Would seem it's finding one in the UK that's the hard part. Yes 35k isn't cheep but around here I think you could run one for free taking away the stone and be on to a winner.

 

[KennyO]

Would seem it's finding one in the UK that's the hard part. Yes 35k isn't cheep but around here I think you could run one for free taking away the stone and be on to a winner.

This just popped up on Facebook. Won't be cheap.

 

[Will 1594]

I assume you mean a Grimme destoner, as one would use for potatoes? They're not really suited to harvesting stone really, more designed for laying it in a trench. Typical web size is 42-44mm, which is a 32mm gap, it wouldn't leave much on Cotswold brash even if you could get it into a trailer. You'd need to cultivate it fine and ridge it up in front of the destoner, and fit some kind of elevator like this old reekie at York last week

You'd be a lot better with something like a Kongskilde stone bear like this https://www.kongskilde.com/us/en-US...ollecting/Stone-Collecting/STONEBEAR-2,-d-,60

did it sell spud . could do with that to harvest some flints

 

[Spud]

did it sell spud . could do with that to harvest some flints

No it's on the unsold list £2500

 

[Grass And Grain]

Could you just use a grimme continental spud harvester with full width share?? (Rather than a destoner which would normally only have low slung cross conveyor) (Other than if you found a machine like in spud's photo).