Picking stones

dungfly

anyone have any experience of destoning with a land leveller during reseeding. How do you pick yours?

kerry cow

Tbh I find land leveler brings up quite a few stones

Base price

dungfly wrote: »

anyone have any experience of destoning with a land leveller during reseeding. How do you pick yours?

I find that this method works best unless you have a de-stoner like the spud farmers have.

Coolfresian

The land leveller pulls up a lot of stones any time we used it to run over drains we dug. Can't imagine it being much help? Always just roll the field well and pick the stones in sections, get through a lot if u have help.

Bass Reeves

If the field is stoney use an independent disc harrow.

patsy_mccabe

Base price wrote: »

I find that this method works best unless you have a de-stoner like the spud farmers have.

Jeez, they're great dogs. I'd be a long time waiting before my little fella would pick stones for you.

homewardbound11

With dogs like that I'm surprised the number plate on the tractor wasn't 666

Muckit

Every young lad/girl should get a stint at doing brain dumbingly tedious work like picking stones. Teaches determination and sticking at something to the end. You're not going to like doing every job in life, but some things still have to get done.

Watching the karate kid should be compulsory also, 'wax on, wax off.'

jimini0

When we were young myself and my brother did a bit of contracting work. Labour hire for Picking stones and potatoes some times bochalains. We used to employ young fellas and a couple of lassies 12-16 year olds. We paid them 5 pounds a day. Most would not be back the second day but a few stuck I out for the summer.

blue5000

Went around a 4 acre silage field yesterday for an hour or so:o

And the bag is ragwort. Seems to be getting worse around here every year.

tractorporn

Muckit wrote:

Every young lad/girl should get a stint at doing brain dumbingly tedious work like picking stones. Teaches determination and sticking at something to the end. You're not going to like doing every job in life, but some things still have to get done.

Tis up there with the bog as one of the horrible jobs on the farm my farther calls the character building jobs!!! Have to agree if you can do jobs like that you'll never have any problem getting work or sticking at a job!

kowtow

Muckit wrote:

Every young lad/girl should get a stint at doing brain dumbingly tedious work like picking stones. Teaches determination and sticking at something to the end. You're not going to like doing every job in life, but some things still have to get done.

We used to be made do it as a whole school, 20 acre fields, freezing February afternoons and prefects with big boots to keep you moving along...... it taught me exactly how to get a taxi to wait where it couldn't be seen from a tractor and the extraordinary joy of a warm pub fire on a dark afternoon.

patsy_mccabe

My very first job that I got paid for was looking after the back yard in a hotel. I had to empty bins full of food slops into a big skip out the back. The smell was so bad I had to hold my breath when doing it. That and keeping the place swept and tidy. I thought I was on the pigs back as I got 60 pounds for a 5 day a week or 100 pounds for the seven days. Tis was in the late 80's and compared to working st home for nothing it seemed easy work.

Count Mondego

One summer, when I was about 15 (mid 90s) , I bargained hard with the auld lad to get paid. We settled on 20 pounds a week and I'd milk the cows morning and evening and work all day in between. Thought I got a great deal. Younger brother go a job in the local petrol station soon after and was pulling in 180 quid a week.

MF290

Picking stones in the spring has to be one of my favourite jobs. First couple of real drying days of the year, even better if there's a bit of warmth in them, the smell of the soil and usually everyone is roped in so it's a bit of craic.
I better mention that I usually do the driving and used to get a day or two off school so maybe that's why