JasperFrank
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Unclesam, after 30 years of moving rocks, I am of the other opinion, and I hate them. It was undeveloped land that I bought, and i had no idea what was ahead, for the next 30 years, just to get to a point that it was something that resembled a lawn. The land was cheap, but it was cheap because of all the rocks. The seller knew this, but I did not. It was a slow discovery of just what I was up against. I'm a slow learner. 20 years in, I was too committed to doing it on my own. Looking back, I should have hired out someone with bigger equipment to take all these out, put them in a pile and sell them, and then add normal soil. I have no regrets of all the time I have removed rocks with my little 14 HP tractor with FEL. But in hindsight, I think of all those days doing nothing but removing rocks, that maybe I could have been doing something else. The property is finally okay, to run a garden tractor mower over and make it look good, ...park like. This took 30 years. We've put the rocks in every way we could; revetment walls for terracing, and rings around all the trees and even built a road and retention wall for a pond, using them as fill. Last year I cleared another 1/8 acre, I wanted to be mowable for fire control. This generated yet another huge pile of large rocks. They will be used, as yet another revetment wall, for another terrace. I see the end to it now, but if I had known what I do now, I'd have had professionals involved earlier in the landscaping process.