do rocks sell?

Nick m · Jul 14, 2014

I've seen adds on craigslist stating they have rocks/field stones for sale. Do people really buy these? I've got tons of them soft ball size. Am I rich?

Fergienewbee · Jul 14, 2014

The big ones do, but you have a specialized market.

Larry

Adirondack case guy · Jul 14, 2014

Probably not!!!! TOO small,. You need biguns with dinasore bones in them, unless you live down in Jersey, where Larry G, the corner stone guy lives, and everyone wants perfect masonary stone walls around their property.
Loren, the Acg.

JRSutton · Jul 14, 2014

about $200 a ton last time I looked here in MA.

For the same rock farmers have been piling into countless miles of stone walls for the past three centuries.

Funny - field stone is so abundant, yet - unless you're a farmer and you still plow, you've got to pay for it.

There are laws about taking down any of those countless miles of stone walls that run through all the woods around here. (all the old fields have been forgotten and turned into woods)

Wile E · Jul 14, 2014

Yes they sell.........Trust me. People pay $150 per ton for rocks, softball size to cantaloupe size. Bigger rocks, basketball to beachball size, a per ton price for these too.

I bought 2 tons of rocks for landscaping. (for $300 plus other rocks I had when I built the house) I have a pretty good landscaped house. Then there are the small trees, multch, back deck.....How big is yer wallet?

If you have 10 pickup truck loads then you could get $1000 for them, easily.

Ultradog MN · Jul 14, 2014

Depends on what kind of rocks.
I know some of them sell for Thousands that are no bigger than a pimple.

Dave in Tx · Jul 14, 2014

They do in Texas. Know a guy who bought 30 acres and a house and paid for it with rocks from the place. Granted, they were large rocks and they bring a lot of money in the big cities.

Nick m · Jul 14, 2014

I've got probably 30 pickup loads at one field. Next time you need rocks come to me. I'll beat that price

Gordy in MN · Jul 14, 2014

The rocks are not worth much it is the trucking that cost money. I retired from a gravel pit and I think back then rocks were 50 a ton then add on 150 for the truck, really raises heck with the box. We had 70 to 80 trucks hauling out of our pit and only one was set up for boulders.

donjr · Jul 14, 2014

Yeah- especially if they're purebreds for pets...

sms · Jul 14, 2014

Here in NY catskill mt area fieldstone is quite valueable, a lot of the stone is flat and used for walls (free standing and retaining walls). Most Bluestone yards also sell fieldstone of different grades from small up to 7" thick and larger. When I was younger I made some good money doing fieldstone walls.

rrlund · Jul 14, 2014

I don't know about the small ones,but the big boulders sell. There was a pile out west of Stanton. From what I heard,he sold that for $3500 and kept a few of the biggest ones.
I was getting diesel at the corner of 57 and 66 one time and two big dump trucks from Traverse City pulled in there loaded with big ones. I said "Don't you guys have any rocks up there?". The guy said,"Nope,we used'em all.".

Wile E · Jul 14, 2014

What you need to do is put an ad in your local paper and see who needs to buy rocks for landscaping. Yards, ponds, waterfalls, stone walkways, I have a neighbor that spent thousands of dollars on rocks.........Endless money supply I guess.

Anybody that wants to buy the rocks will want a deal on them, so you will need to sell them at a wholesale price, less than your local landscape yard sells them for.

Billy Shafer · Jul 14, 2014

They really sell if you call them art.I believe it was the Dallas Fine Arts museum. That paid over 150 thousand for two.Called time stops or something like that.

Rollie NE PA · Jul 14, 2014

Field stone is big business around here. Tractor trailer loads hauled every day. Farmers have been selling their stone walls for the last several years. The stones are stacked on pallets then wrapped with chicken wire, loaded and shipped out. Most of the stacking is done by Mexican workers. They are hard workers.

David G · Jul 14, 2014

I am lucky, not a rock on my farm, windblown clay hills.

Dr. Walt · Jul 14, 2014

Yes & No . Just ordinary field stones, softball sized - probably not much value. BUT, if they are "pretty", "unique", have interesting variegated patterns in them, or contain precious or semi-precious minerals in them, then yes they can be valuable, especially to people that do Lapidary work.

Doc :>)

CCer · Jul 15, 2014

Around here it's "Buy It By The Acre, And Sell It By The Ton!"

Kickinbull · Jul 15, 2014

When we lived in MI I had a friend that worked at a lime quarry. I stopped in to visit my friend at his lunch time and there was a guy picking over the largest rocks/bolders coming out of the pit. He made a deal with quarry owner to let him pick the ones he wanted then they were set aside and trucked to his home.
Now we live in KY we have a neighbor that used to be overroad trucker. He found some special rock in Va that he just had to have for his house. It is almost like a dark gray black shale. He hired it trucked to his home here and then hired masons to use it to put on outside walls.They used black mortar. Really nice. He later added a large room and didn't have enough stone to finish it. Being as everything is always more expensive now, he sure did squeal to get the last amount of stone to finish the job.

Hotflashjr · Jul 15, 2014

Ditto. I know a guy who trucks it from his rock picker in his field out onto Martha's Vineyard and makes more money that way than you can shake a stick at. "High End" is the main word he uses and it seems to make people open up their wallet.

howdy1960 · Jul 15, 2014

I have mostly from golfball to softball sized and even people that say they need to fill in areas wont take them for free. The property next to us used to quarry/sell them.

JRSutton · Jul 15, 2014

oh I can imagine.

Tell people they were hand picked from 300 year old new england pasture and suddenly they're worth much more. Even though virtually every other rock in new england is out of a 300 year old new england pasture.

buickanddeere · Jul 15, 2014

City of Toronto spent $500,000 to paint two large rocks and set them into an art display.
Not enough $$$ to fix pot holes in roads however.

Mike M · Jul 15, 2014

Nothing else get a crusher and then sell gravel.

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