Went on a stretch and bend picnic

jon f mn · May 8, 2017

Stretch my back, leg and arm muscles when I bend over to pick up rocks that is. This job is on my least favs list. Picked a lot of rocks in my day and would like to not pick any more. The only good thing is I got to drive a Case tractor. Oh well, too wet to plant yet anyway. Maybe tomorrow I'll get to plant.

JMOR · May 8, 2017

You can just drop those in one of my washes here in Texas.

37chief · May 8, 2017

I heard rocks keep pushing up through the ground. Is this correct? stan

Geo-TH,In · May 8, 2017

Looks like the rocks are pushing front wheels in dirt.

No way would I attempt to pick them up, I would be hurting for months.

I made a thumb for my backhoe. It can pick up heavy objects. Comes in very handy. Do you have a rock garden? I've used the thumb to pics up rocks, because the boss told me to put them in a flower bed

jon f mn · May 8, 2017

Nobody knows where rocks come from, they just show up. Kinda magic like.

db4600 · May 8, 2017

...We spent many years trying to make them disappear also. There is no easy way. I picked a couple POUNDS of rocks as a farm kid. Dad got wise and bought a Schulte picker and built a rock rake. That made it physically easier, but we still devoted a lot of time to rock picking. Then my schoolmates who farmed closer to the Sauk River would talk about picking rocks on Saturday. I would ask, "how many loads did you pick?" "oh a couple bucket fulls".

After dad saw Captain Kirk disintegrate stuff on Star Trek he always talked about build a laser to shoot them, but by that point he had relegated to the honest truth.

Jon, I trust you fully understand the meaning of "stone boat"!

Tom in Ga · May 8, 2017

Be careful and don't pull them up by the roots. That's where next years rocks come from.

showcrop · May 8, 2017

(quoted from post at 13:32:12 05/08/17) I heard rocks keep pushing up through the ground. Is this correct? stan

You can pretty much depend on a new crop every year in the north country, Especially if your ground is glacial till. You will notice a "tick" when your mower knife hits a rock. Next year it will be a "ding" next year a "clang". Since you don't want to hear what follows clang, you dig it out before next cutting.

unc · May 8, 2017

You buy fish
You buy bones
You buy land
You buy stones............Ugh!

2x4 · May 8, 2017

rocks migrate from the spot you threw them to, back to their breeding grounds, annually.

X-Y switch · May 8, 2017

Do you guys keep an eye out for Lake Superior agates when you are removing rocks from your fields. Years ago I did a lot of lapidary and silversmithing. Those agates are really beautiful and some are really huge, big enough to be a problem in a field. If you found one it would be worth a fortune. Just wondering.

Copperhead don't play · May 9, 2017

What type of fertilizer do you use to grow them that big?

formerly ny bill · May 9, 2017

i had a neighbor who said you never get all the rocks picked. you just lower the field.

Went on a stretch and bend picnic

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