3-Point Hitch Best implement for de-rocking?

[bgiff]

I have a Kubota BX23s with a backhoe and a scraper box. I live in a heavily rock infested area of mountainous N. California. Would a sub-soiler be a good choice to use to rip them up? I need to go just deep enough so I dont wreck my tiller. The rocks range from baseball to 2 basketballs in size (there are some bigger ones, but I generally know where they are and have other plans for those) I noticed my land pride scraper was able to yank out a large fence post concrete piece but I hit it really hard under full throttle, by accident, I would never ram something that hard intentionally! surprised something didnt break.

 

[jeff9366]

Consider Bucket Solutions' Ultra Forks.

You can insert Fork under rocks, then tip up bucket, rolling in rocks for transport.

This firm makes very durable attachments.

LINK: Multi-Spear Ultra Fork

 

[TnAndy]

Only thing that ever worked for me was left and right hands. If you have that many rocks, they will keep appearing like a swarm of locusts every year.

 

[whitepine2]

Only thing that ever worked for me was left and right hands. If you have that many rocks, they will keep appearing like a swarm of locusts every year.

You got that right been picking sense ten and am 74 and still picking where the garden has been,but
also the folks before me have picked. Wife keeps telling me to give up but as I tell her the ones I pick will never bother me again.I think the only way is put all dirt through a screening plant HA HA:dance1:

 

[Egon]

Dedicated Rock Picker.

 

[oosik]

You have rock, I have rock, I think the only people without rock live in the desert or farm the ocean. A while back I researched this "rock picking" situation. They do make tow behind rock pickers - but Oh Lordy - the price. The names I remember are - Dura Grade and Rockland.

And I wonder - if you spend a fortune and purchase one of these tow behind, automatic rock pickers - does it mean that new rocks will not grow in the spring.

 

[stlbill]

The people who owned my home before me filled several wet weather creeks with 4"+ crushed limestone "rip rap" about 6-10 feet wide. This makes for a lot of weed trimming when I could be mowing closer to the creek.

I found a <emphasis> quality </emphasis> box blade with shanks is doing the job well, but of course you still have to pick up the pile of rock the BB creates and put it someplace. Rock is tough work for a subcompact.

Good luck! I considered having heavier equipment brought in to do the job, but it came down to time vs. money. The subcompact does the job, it just takes longer and I <emphasis> live </emphasis> here. If a subdivision association or similar were requiring me to get the job done quickly that might be different. And it is not a terrible eye sore because I work sections at a time.

 

[17 Oaks]

Rocks, you got rocks and here in the Texas Hill Country we OWN them. My top soil runs from 0 to maybe 4 in in a few rare places, And YES a subsoiler is your friend, I use mine to build ditches and clean out old ditches. Luck is its limestone and breaks up easy.

 

[ArlyA]

We of course are in a different situation. We are smoothing up trails and plan to remove rocks and stumps out to help do that. This is glaciated land here so rocks are everywhere and trees grow like weeds. Northern hardwood if that matters and on the edge of boreal. To help with this we are getting a hydrostatic compact tractor with a single blade subsoiler to help lift those blasted rocks and stumps out. With the hydrostatic transmission we can pull into the rock/stump and put pressure on it and lift at the same time.

Arly--- rocks and stumps are us ---- A

 

[N80]

My soil is rocky as well. As mentioned, your hands are going to be the main tool. I have an area below the cabin that I plow and disk about once a year. Afterwards I pick up all the potato and larger sized rocks and chuck them in the woods. There are never less of them.