OT--Just a few rocks in a new lawn

OliverGuy · Jul 21, 2009

First, I know, wrong time of the year to put in a lawn, but it must be done now for this place. This was one bucket of rocks out of three that were handpicked this morning. At least it"s now seeded, strawed and tacked and looks like a good chance of rain for the next several days!!

Walterdavies · Jul 21, 2009

HEY if you want to get rid of those rocks I'll take off your hands. If I went over my whole farm I couldn't find 1/10th that many rocks.
Walt

DownSouth · Jul 21, 2009

Oh my, looks like you need to start buying your top soil from some place other than the rock quarry!

ericlb · Jul 21, 2009

where do you live? those rocks are water worn got a river near? just courious, the gravel pit i work for has just found some of them, 160 feet underground, the guys have us a nice big hole now

OH Boy · Jul 21, 2009

THose look just like the rocks I picked off my lawn when I put it in. Are you in central Ohio?

Gun guru · Jul 21, 2009

I got neighbors that would pay you ca$h for those rocks.

I have one neighbor that has spent over $20,000 on boulders and rocks (all sizes and shapes)
The $20k number is no joke.

armand tatro · Jul 21, 2009

Those rocks would look around your house and plantings esp. if they have any color to them. Better keep them because they are worth money whether you use them or sell them to landscapers or home owners. Armand

37 chief · Jul 21, 2009

Now that is a lot of rocks. One thing I didn't need to worry about is mowing a lawn growing up on the farm. Water was too scarse to waste it on a lawn. In fact Dad had to haul water to keep us supplied when the well dired up. Just about every summer. That's is probably why we didn't have a inside flusher. Stan

RayP(MI) · Jul 21, 2009

Quit bragging! I have fields where I could load that without moving tractor!

Janicholson · Jul 21, 2009

2-1/2 to 3" river gravel. OK rocks.
The rocks that I get excited about are those that trip the plow, or jerk it, and the tractor, to a stop. I would put those to work in the landscape somewhere. JimN

Paul from MI · Jul 21, 2009

I found about that many in my garden. After I picked them, the ground level lowered to thepoint where it flooded all the time. Not picking rocks anymore, can't handle the flooding!!
Paul

lustforrust · Jul 21, 2009

I think our land grows rocks. I have gone out and cleared rocks every year to mow, and the next year I always hit rocks on the first mowing of the season.

fixerupper · Jul 21, 2009

My back hurts just looking at those things! They look like about the right size for sub-surfacing a new lane. Ever thought about selling them to a landscaper? Or maybe you already have a use for them.

I'm piling the rocks off my farm on an unused concrete feed floor so a landscaper can come get them sometime. So far I probably have enough to fill two semis. Jim

OliverGuy · Jul 22, 2009

We're in NW IN. They are river rocks. Wabash is 1 mile away.

OliverGuy · Jul 22, 2009

They will get re-used. Landscaping, etc. is my real job. They are going into a dry creekbed worked through a landscape we installed. Most of the soil around here isn't that bad, EXCEPT if you do what the general contractor did around this new substation. He dug deep and brought all the junk to the top. I sure would like to thank him.

OliverGuy · Jul 22, 2009

It's not usually this bad, but there is a strip through here that has a lot. We're not to far from a river and the glaciers gave us plenty. At a farm where I put a decent road in to a top field a went through almost 30' of what I call "pit run", sandy gravelly mix. It then stopped abruptly at the worst blue clay I've seen around here for awhile. I topped the sides of the road with the clay, packed it with a dozer and it hasn't moved yet! I used the pit run for the base for my road, then topped with larger limestone.

Rootsy · Jul 22, 2009

My land grows rocks too... I pile em up as I go.. either by hand or with the rock picker... List em on craigslist and folks come from miles away to break a sweat overloading their vehicles... I don't give em away either...

INCase · Jul 22, 2009

We've got a lot of gravel pits in this part of the state (Middlebury area).

That doesn't look like an Oliver Mr. OliverGuy (just kidding,.... I wouldn't use a good Oliver just to move dumb rocks around either)

onefarmer · Jul 22, 2009

My farm has been in the family 100 yrs. Rock pick at least the big ones every year. Wouldn't know it by looking at the fields.

OliverGuy · Jul 22, 2009

My guys would struggle using any tractor that you actually have to shift. That's why the Kubota is there. Everyone got real used to having a hydro one tractor ago, so I guess it's only hydro's from here on out! I can't buy a manual transmission in a truck either, only part of the younger guys could drive it!!

INCase · Jul 22, 2009

I know what you mean. Hard to find stick shift cars. Looked for one for my daughter so she would know how to drive one (besides the lawn mower) and her friends wouldn't be able to drive her car. Found too good of a deal anyway to pass up so we've got an automatic. Automatics aren't quite as easy to mess up with inexperienced drivers if you keep up on the maintenance. I take it you're near Wabash and have a landscaping business.

Bill(Wis) · Jul 22, 2009

Nice looking rocks!

OliverGuy · Jul 22, 2009

Near Lafayette. This place is close to the Wabash so you get some gravel, sand and other surprises. But,our place is only 1 mile down the road and is a lot of clay. You just never know what you'll find. Yes, landscaping, irrigation, snow removal, etc. is our family business and helps pay the bills for the tractor addiction.

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