Gotta love your own woods.

[beenthere]

I figure if the Deere loader can lift it, then it is built to handle digging in out with the forks. ;)

[SwampDonkey]

We had Deeres here on the farm and I've seen some pretty big rocks put a beat'n on tractor buckets. :D I think one has to be careful when repairs are costly, and if the farm don't support the repair bills. ;)

[beenthere]

SD
You need to get out more.  ;D

15 years and not damage to the bucket. ;)


 

[SwampDonkey]

Out of pick'n rocks is all I want 'out more' of. :D

[enigmaT120]

This reminded me of my wife asking me when I'll be done with all my work in our woods.  Um, you really don't get it if you have to ask that question. 

[GATreeGrower]

A better question would be "When is the work gonna be done with you?"

[thecfarm]

Not that it matters I've seen some pretty bad banged uo buckets on JD tractors and these were on farms too. Probably I would of had some of them bent in half with some of the rocks I've dug. I know when my Father and me went looking at tractors in 1992 JD and Ford offered 2 price buckets a light duty one or a heavy one. We brought the heavy duty one on a 2120. I dug out some BIG rocks with that. I regretted getting rid of it. The bucket I have on this NH must of been a light duty. I've done more damage to it than the almost 18 years of the other tractor. I have dug 100s of rocks. How many you dug beenthere? ;)
beenthere,That is only a 30hp tractor,bucket is how wide? I can't really tell,but the 2120 bucket was much bigger,deeper higherI think. That had a big bucket on it.

[SwampDonkey]

We moved a mountain of rocks off these farms up here and they are still growing. :D We always had 100-120 HP tractors here and the buckets wider than the wheel base. A potato row that would be say 650 yards long beside the house here, we would often have to dump the bucket twice, going one way. We would pick about 20 rows wide or so as we went. However one of our farms up the road had hardly a rock and that was at the base of a mountain. Go figure. I remember one spring, this 100 acres around the house we picked 3 times. Once each between harrows and then again after the first hoeing. But this field was always bad for rocks. The guy that bought it said we never picked any rocks. He didn't know anything as far as rocks we picked. We filled a swamp with rocks, build up a road with the rocks and another 20 feet deep rock pile for 100 yards on the edge of the farm, plus used under buildings we poured cement on. He musta been blind or felt like mouth'n or both. :D

[GATreeGrower]

Yall got a lot of rocks up er

[thecfarm]

I'm not counting the ones that I can pick up by hand. That would be me up in the 10,000s.   ;D  I need to go up to the bog and take a picture.It would scare you and than you would know I don't know nothing.  :D

[beenthere]

How many you dug beenthere?

Hundreds too. I've been digging them out of the yard (they do grow, as you well know) for 50 years now. And because this is the terminal morraine for the last glacier that slipped down into WI about 10k year ago, it left a log of rocks.
Largest is about car size. I didn't have the convenience of a bucket except for the last 15 years. Prior to that it was dig 'em by hand, wrap chain around, drag out and load on a stone boat and drag away.
I gave away several truckloads of big rock for a large rock wall. Prolly 3-400 all in all there. Last few years I've been building some of my own rock walls out of the boulders such as seen in the bucket. For a 30 some hp tractor, it carries its weight well. And the addition of the forks makes it a much better tool for rocks and a gazillion other chores. I have the forks on more than I have the bucket. A grapple tooth on the forks is forthcoming.

[thecfarm]

Give rocks away,I wish that would happen to me.I have a couple stone walls I would like to see gone.I'm building a rock wall up in the bog. Pictures are a coming. It's about a 10 minute drive,but I know the rocks will not be in the way again. More memories. I dug out alot of rocks with my Father,might just as well take pictures of that pile too. He had it easy,I was the chain man and he drove the tractor. A few times we had to fill the hole back in and the rock was still there.Took a few times to get the rock out,2 people made it easy. We got the Ford in 1993,bucket and all. First time The Farm had a tractor with a bucket.