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Jiles · Mar 17, 2011

Some people must be despirate---There has been an ongoing ad in CL for a person trying to sell a 2 TON Rock in their front yard, nice pretty "egg shaped" landscape ornimant. They are asking $200.00
My wife stated that someone might move it if they were paid $200.00

Also--I can't believe some of the ads where people are trying to sell farm equipment, disc. plows, bushogs etc. that are absolutely rusted junk, and are asking premium price.

Not too long ago, I could buy a rough piece of equipment clean, repair and paint and double or triple my investment.
I haven't been able to do that in about a couple of years.
Recently, I was looking for a 5' finish mower, a rock rake, and a 5' landscape box. I decided to buy all three pieces new, for very little more money.
Is it just in my area or is it that way everywhere? :?:

JMS/.MN · Mar 17, 2011

I"m not surprised about the rock lawn art- people around here do buy rock for that purpose. Especially the ones with a colored stripe in them. Here, craigslist has an abundance of over-priced junk as well.

C.R. · Mar 17, 2011

I like the free firewood, all you have to do is remove the tree that is hanging over the house

Rootsy · Mar 17, 2011

I run the rock picker every spring and dump everything in a pile behind the barn. I then post an add on CL and advertise pickup load $20 - whatever you think your truck can handle. I'll be danged if I don't have a single rock left by mid summer... Heck I get people wandering through unplanted field picking up rocks in the wheelbarrow. These people will severely overload brand new Super Duties, and 1/2 tons and drive obscene distances.

You get closer to Detroit and Toledo and landscape places buy glacial washed rocks by the dump load / ton and price each single rock individually.

rrlund · Mar 17, 2011

Nothing unusual about that. My brother is in the excavating business and gets calls for large landscape rocks.
A guy who ran the elevator here one time was telling that when they had an auction to settle his father in laws estate,he bet the auctioneer that he couldn't sell a pile of rocks in the front yard and he did it.
A few years ago I pulled up to the fuel pump at the BP and there were two big dump trucks in there fueling up. They were from way up by Traverse City,and that's,what,130-140 miles from here? They were both loaded with big rocks. I asked them if they didn't have any up there. One of'em said,nope,we used'em all.

55 50 Ron · Mar 17, 2011

Using rock in landscape work is quite common here. We had landscape work done in 1994 and 2005. It used rock, some large ones were hauled in and smaller ones came from a pile in our back yard.

Mike M · Mar 17, 2011

I don't know about the rocks ? Maybe better go fetch them back up out of the ravine and sell them.

I have noticed the same about equipment though.
I thought for sure I could sell my smaller compact and find a larger one at a good price since everyone is to be out of work. So I sold mine a few years back and i still haven't got one ! I don't have much need for one ,but sure is nice to have one sometimes.

Rootsy · Mar 17, 2011

Supply and demand.... Simple as that.

Heard the local fence row cleaners were getting $40 / ton for rock. All round glacial / river washed stuff, various colors and compositions. If there wasn't a market and money in it I doubt there would be harvesters...

BCnT · Mar 17, 2011

every once in awhile i find a deal on CL...bought a NH 852 round baler in close to useable shape day before yesterday for $250...even if i missed something major wrong with it,its worth almost double that over the scales.

Spook · Mar 17, 2011

There used to be folks looking for rocks, a local guy here has had a pile for sale for a couple years, hasn't moved any.

Jiles · Mar 17, 2011

Folks---I know you can buy rocks, I just got back with some---But not a single FOUR THOUSAND POUND ROCK!

Chuck (CA) · Mar 17, 2011

I get a kick out of the free broken chunks of concrete. Better hurry!

tlak · Mar 17, 2011

I saw an ad with 3/4 rock that the guy wanted $200-300, wasn't much of a pile. You pick up. The contractor might have got several hundred off him for delivering and using, but he'll be lucky to give it away, if you can go to the quarry and they'll load your trailer for $6 a ton.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 17, 2011

Rocks for landscaping can be very expensive! There are companies that all they do is move and sell large rocks for landscaping. I once moved and placed about a 1500# rock for a customer. I only had to move it about a 1/2 mile on my trailer so only charged $60. The customers were very happy, they said to buy an even smaller rock from a landscape supply would have cost over $800 and that didn't including moving and placing it. $200 for a 2 ton rock is cheap even if it cost's another $200 to move it.

RGMartin · Mar 17, 2011

(quoted from post at 15:37:35 03/17/11) Rocks for landscaping can be very expensive! There are companies that all they do is move and sell large rocks for landscaping. I once moved and placed about a 1500# rock for a customer. I only had to move it about a 1/2 mile on my trailer so only charged $60. The customers were very happy, they said to buy an even smaller rock from a landscape supply would have cost over $800 and that didn't including moving and placing it. $200 for a 2 ton rock is cheap even if it cost's another $200 to move it.

I have a gold mine here then. I believe it is called glacial till. Big roundish chunks of granite. Some so big the Case 1150 dozer couldn't push them out of the fields, had to help pull with big tractors and chains. There was guaranteed to be a big one that couldn't be moved 100 years ago at the bottom of every stone pile.

just another old geezer · Mar 17, 2011

Reminds me of a comment a friend made when he came to me to get some rocks of my rockpile for hie wife for landscaping. she had seen a plastic rock in the local home improvement store and wanted to buy it. He told her," Honey, we're not so poor that we have to have fake rock, we can afford REAL rocks.

fightfire · Mar 17, 2011

Those freakin' rocks are breeding in my fenceline! Every spring I swear there are more!
In an area where the glacier pulled back and deposited them here for us to clear, 1/2 ton- 2 ton common- got a pretty good sized loader that can't touch some of 'em. And, yes there is a market- I'm just not keen about dealing with the public on my days off. Lots have gone to friends and other firemen for decor and fountains.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 17, 2011

These two brothers started out 25 years a go with a beat up one ton and two strong backs. Now look at their web sight. Must be money in selling stones.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 17, 2011

the flat landers buy them like candy around here to the point there are very few left and i'm 200 miles from ILL.i have loaded over 40 loads in the last two years just can't find any any more. about a 4 to 6 ton stone is the best

Anonymous-0 · Mar 17, 2011

Them rocks are vicious drunk trappers. I dug a 700 lb piece of sandstone out of a field, and put it behind a clump of river grass, at the fork in out driveway. One summer morning, I kept hearing a car spinning tires, about 2 AM. I grabs the calico .22, with the 100 round magazine, laser site, and flashlight attached to the barrel (coon gun), and I walks down the driveway, and and what do I behold? A beat up Camero, high centered on the rock, and a drunken, mullet headed, shirtless wonder, who starts running at me from about 50 feet away! I flips on the laser, and off the safety, and shines the light of truth, right between his nipples, after catching his eye with that red laser light! I think I found the reverse switch, his legs start movin backwards, before his chest stops movin forward! Result? Lands more or less on his face, , wimpering, as his fat arsed girlfriend screams don't shoot! I couldn't, cause I was laughin inside, so hard! Long story short, it never made the papers, cause he was a politician's son, county council man, I think, but anyway that rock held that camero, till a rollback pulled it off!

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