What To Do With All of These Rocks?

DrainPondDesign · May 3, 2007

It sounds like you have a lot of hard work ahead but for the heck of it check the rocks to see if they have any value. Some round rocks could be geodes or "thunder eggs" & rock hounds pay to dig them up. Flat stones are stacked on pallets & trucked all over creation to be sold for landscaping.

The bad news is that if your ground freezes very deep during winter the freeze/thaw cycle drives burried ones to the surface so you may eventually get to pick up a new crop.

professor · May 3, 2007

Haneyrm,

I assume the Water Valley you mentioned is in western Maury county on or near Leipers Creek. I grew up in the area as our farm was a mile south of W.V. My grandad owned the store on one side of the creek and my uncle owned the one on the other side. As for the rocks, if you removed all the rocks in the area you would have a 53 acre lake. Going over them with a landscape rake only compounds the problem since you pull up more. If you have pasture just clip higher and keep the cutter out of the rocks. My mother-in-law has a 60 acre farm on snow creek and it is extremely rocky. I clip pasture high and hardly ever hit a rock. I used to cut about five acres of bermuda/orchard grass with a disc mower and that was an experience with rocks being thrown by the mower. Even with the rocks you have some good land. I live on four acres of land in west TN which is rock free. Do I miss the rocks?-------HECK NO!!!!!!