Need Advice

[dave1949]

Will do Dave. My dozer guy charges $85 an hour with a 4 hour minimum. Got tons of Rose Rocks here that, when extracted and sold, could help me defer some of the expenses.

Had to look that up.

Timberlake Rose Rock Museum, Noble, Oklahoma
The Rose Rock

Within the Garber sandstone,
A barite crystal grew,
The Oklahoma sand
Gave it a reddish hue.

Seawater bathed it; and,
As a flower grows,
God formed its shape
Into a lovely rose.

Nancy Ann Stine
© 1977

$85/hour, 4 hour minimum for dozer work sounds fairly standard compared to here. It is amazing what a good operator can get done in a day with the right equipment.

To tackle 37 acres, I would try to have a dozer smooth it enough to pull a bush hog over it. You will probably have some rocks to pick, or windrows of rocks, but a dozer can flatten things out pretty well. If you keep it bush hogged, you can work on it one or two acres at a time as the budget allows.

Beyond that, you have to decide if making the whole 40 acres tillable is going to be worth it in the long run. That wouldn't pay around here if it's really rocky/stony, but I have no idea about your area.

Do you know if the rocky soil is just a layer, or does it stay rocky deep into the ground?

 

[Brother Bob]

Had to look that up.

Timberlake Rose Rock Museum, Noble, Oklahoma
The Rose Rock

Within the Garber sandstone,
A barite crystal grew,
The Oklahoma sand
Gave it a reddish hue.

Seawater bathed it; and,
As a flower grows,
God formed its shape
Into a lovely rose.

Nancy Ann Stine
© 1977

$85/hour, 4 hour minimum for dozer work sounds fairly standard compared to here. It is amazing what a good operator can get done in a day with the right equipment.

To tackle 37 acres, I would try to have a dozer smooth it enough to pull a bush hog over it. You will probably have some rocks to pick, or windrows of rocks, but a dozer can flatten things out pretty well. If you keep it bush hogged, you can work on it one or two acres at a time as the budget allows.

Beyond that, you have to decide if making the whole 40 acres tillable is going to be worth it in the long run. That wouldn't pay around here if it's really rocky/stony, but I have no idea about your area.

Do you know if the rocky soil is just a layer, or does it stay rocky deep into the ground?

Yeah, that Rose Rock museum is a ripoff! LOL! PM me, tell you where I can send you one and it will be in the mail in a week. Again, thanks for the info. It's gonna be a while before Brother Bob becomes Farmer Bob.

 

[dave1949]

Yeah, that Rose Rock museum is a ripoff! LOL! PM me, tell you where I can send you one and it will be in the mail in a week. Again, thanks for the info. It's gonna be a while before Brother Bob becomes Farmer Bob.

Thanks for the offer, but I don't know what I would do with it. I suspect it would end up in a box somewhere my kids would find after I'm gone. :laughing:

The only OK museum I have visited was the Frank Phillips (oil) home near Bartlesville. That was a nice place with Native Arts and a huge gun collection.

 

[Brother Bob]

Thanks for the offer, but I don't know what I would do with it. I suspect it would end up in a box somewhere my kids would find after I'm gone. :laughing:

The only OK museum I have visited was the Frank Phillips (oil) home near Bartlesville. That was a nice place with Native Arts and a huge gun collection.

Heck, everyone can use an extra pretty red, rose looking rock in their pile of junk, especially from Oklahoma! You can show it to your neighbors and become the envy of your neighborhood.........on second thought, better send a few extra, huh? LOL!