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OT Selling Rocks, serious question

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Jerry C Okla

01-21-2008 06:16:22

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I have 40 acres of an abundance (understated) of rocks small to boulder size. Moss covered, ideal for landscaping. Wonder if anybody does or has sold these? Is there a market worth looking into? I know it sounds crazy JerryC

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Rock Spreaders

01-22-2008 23:00:33

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

My Gramps always had piles of rocks at his farm.
Asked my Pop why that was...
He said they were "moisture savers" and they
just hadn't spread them all yet. Ha Ha

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ChrisB

01-22-2008 03:58:31

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

Should be obvious but worth mentioning, weathered stone with moss an leichten (sp?) is worth a premium. Hand picked is preferred as machine handling scars them up. Around in New England, landscapers will pay $100 a pallet (about 1 ton), and they pick up. They sell a pallet for $325 to $500 depending on quality.
On the other hand, rocks dug up around here (land of rock), is hard to give away thanks to fuel costs.

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Richard L

01-21-2008 16:46:51

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

Jerry, my wife watches a lot of those HGTV shows especially curb appeal etc. she said they get some very big bucks for big boulders. The designers take the people to landscape supply places and pick out what they want. I might think you should talk to some of the supply houses and ask them if they are interested in buying some lawn decorations.

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Larry59

01-21-2008 15:45:28

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I got rocks ! in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

I clean my yard up for mowing all the time. With just a little bit of rain. My yard grows new rocks for me to see and feel! and that's the truth!

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Mike M

01-21-2008 12:29:49

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

Sounds like I better go dig them back up out of the ravines where they have been piled into for many years.

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Gun guru

01-21-2008 12:02:24

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

My neighbor has bought $10k worth of boulders and rocks (yes $10,000) in the last 5 years. I believe it is sold by the ton. like $90/ton or something. All sizes of rocks, large boulders, small too as big as softballs. Dont give them away, charge by the truck load. Make some money.

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135 Fan

01-21-2008 11:55:39

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

I moved a rock for someone that had to weigh at least a ton. I only charged about $60 if I remember right. The people I moved it for said if they had bought it from a landscaping supply, it would have cost at least $700! In hindsight I should have charged a lot more to move it. Big market for rocks, especially unusual ones. Dave

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RayP(MI)

01-21-2008 09:33:17

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

Every few years we have a young fellow with a battered up pickup and a sledge hammer show up and ask permission to harvest rocks from our plentiful rock piles. They select those that they can split, and sell them to building materials dealers. Had a bridge constructor use most of a pile here near the barn, in construction of a bridge on a rural road, nearby. Cleaned up a lot of rocks, and an old foundation for me in exchange. Burried what he didn't use. We have a number of potato farms here which generate quantities of rocks with harvesting equipment, mostly fist to head size. Very useful to county road commissions rebuilding washed out roads, driveways, etc. Yeah, there's a market. All you gotta do is tap it.

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Bob Kerr

01-21-2008 09:09:34

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

Oh yeah! Lots of lanscapers are wanting stuff like that around big towns, but they are getting tough to find. We have a farm near Sheridan In and have some huge piles of glacier rock in all sizes all of them cleared from the fields over the years. Bad thing is the rock piles were also used as a dump so some rocks were burned and there is glass everywhere, but i think they still might be worth digging out. I had several people want to come get some from another farm we owned, but I didn't tell them about the "mother lode" at the other place. I may get with Dad and see what we can do, I am sure he would like that cleaned out anyway. Gravel pit on the north side of Indy has a pile of rocks that were studied by Geologists and were said to have came from siberia with the glaciers. Those are some neat ones! Large red chunks with quartz veins running through and strange greenish ones too. A friend bought some of those for a yard project for $50 a ton, good deal he thought.

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msb

01-21-2008 11:54:09

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Bob Kerr, 01-21-2008 09:09:34

Did you leave any at Keystone at the Crossing ?Scrouge would turn over in his grave if he knew how much his rocks really were worth.lol.

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Bob Kerr

01-21-2008 21:52:32

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to msb, 01-21-2008 11:54:09

I am sure they used those to fill in the big hole left when the D9 cat sunk to the exhaust pipe in the quicksand patch. There might be a couple along the hiway fence. Email me and I'll get you a couple.

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Steve in MN

01-21-2008 07:53:24

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

Here in MN they are used for rip rap on road construction, home sewer systems, etc. Most of the rock piles around the larger towns have been used up. Hauling is getting to be an issue. Locally I've heard of contractor's bidding on rock piles, and I don't live near a big town. Who woulda thought!

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Kestrel in CT

01-21-2008 07:42:02

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

Not crazy at all. Around New England and metro NY I heard they're getting 500/ton for fieldstone.

Upscale new home builders crave them.

Problem is theft from old stonewalls is on the increase and towns are adopting ordinances to protect original stonewalls.

I watch mine like a hawk !

What shape are yours? Flat sided and grey with moss bring the most.

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McRay

01-21-2008 07:35:05

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

there is a market for rocks for landscaping, problem is hauling with fuel prices high. Also what kind rocks they are and location. In Houston, Tx most rocks use for building rocks comes out of centeral Texas are lime stone type.
lot of landscaping comes out Oklahoma and neighoring states. cost is shiping.

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Howard H.

01-21-2008 07:23:58

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

I wouldn't have guessed it would ever work, but a fellow out here started a mining operation for crushed rock for road beds and concrete aggregate.

He uses a D8 Cat to rip it out and then runs it through a screener to crush, wash, and grade it.

This is in the extreme west Panhandle.

Where are you in OK?

Howard

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num hutz

01-21-2008 07:16:08

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

I work in a gravelpit $100? a ton the company I worked for is near the twin cities (mpls st paul mn.)they did not move very fast at all until it we sent out notices and took bids and then they dissapeared get some bids and get them cleared out and limit your liabilities from any tom dick or harry comming on your propery.

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john730d

01-21-2008 06:32:34

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

Central Illinois. 100-160 per ton. Used mostly for landscaping.

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supergrumpy

01-21-2008 06:27:54

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

my nieces have asked several times about getting rocks from my fields and fencelines, hate to part with those cute fellas but I let them come and haul them away, these were some fine Cranesville Plateau gourmet rocks

on my way to work, an old timer had hay wagon loaded with sheepsheads parked on his lawn, sign said rocks for sale, within 4 days the wagon was empty, don't know if he made enuf to make it worthwhile

might have something to do with the full moon

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RustyFarmall

01-21-2008 06:24:33

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to Jerry C Okla, 01-21-2008 06:16:22

There is a market for them. The closer you are to a large metropolitan area, the better that market will be. Might be easier to contact a landscaping company.

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Hal (WA)

01-21-2008 16:29:20

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Re: OT Selling Rocks, serious question in reply to RustyFarmall, 01-21-2008 06:24:33

I agree, and you need to consider supply and demand. If the whole area has lots of rocks, your rocks will be less valuable. On the other hand, if the rest of the area is sand, or gumbo clay, your rocks could be worth a lot.

Where i live, we have sold hundreds of truckloads of basalt rocks, some for $1 a load and some for as much as $50 a load. We always thought it was pure profit, since the haulers were doing the loading and every time they removed a rock, a little more grass could grow for our cows. We did learn not to ever loan tools: our best digging bar made out of an old vehicle driveline was never returned after we loaned it to a family that hauled out enough loads to veneer a pretty large house. Unfortunately we never wrote down a name or license number. Live and learn!

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