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Macon Rounds 
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Posted: 03 Aug 2023 at 9:43am |
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 03 Aug 2023 at 11:24am |
well................... NOT THAT BIG !! 
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 03 Aug 2023 at 11:25am |
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does that grapple bust them up or ???
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 03 Aug 2023 at 12:46pm |
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Yeah I got all of those.
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 03 Aug 2023 at 2:19pm |
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captaindana
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Posted: 03 Aug 2023 at 5:59pm |
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Ok Benny I’ll admit. Yours are bigger than mine. 😫 lol
Edited by captaindana - 03 Aug 2023 at 6:00pm
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JoeO(CMO)
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Posted: 03 Aug 2023 at 7:25pm |
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yep, You win!
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MACK
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Posted: 03 Aug 2023 at 8:08pm |
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Glad I don't have any. MACK
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CrestonM
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Posted: 03 Aug 2023 at 10:16pm |
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Wow. I’ve got one field that’s pretty rocky… there’s about a 5 acre spot that’s got rocks ranging in size from half dollar to fist size. And I thought that was bad!
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im4racin
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Posted: 03 Aug 2023 at 10:23pm |
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Half dollar to fist size.....that's my lawn!
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Ray54
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Posted: 04 Aug 2023 at 4:27pm |
I have rocks to match anybody. I have 2 that I spent 2 or 3 hours digging on each with a D6. Neither would wiggle so I gave up on both. I got several others out of the ground, Had to use a chain to make it stay in the HD 5g loader bucket. Then backed the flatbed dump truck under. As the HD 5 was standing on its nose with most of the track off the ground. Used them to help hold the culvert pipe in my driveway.
For farming purposes if it is smaller than a grapefruit or small cantaloupe just leave them. If you want to pick fist size you would never get done.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 04 Aug 2023 at 4:31pm |
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neighbour had a couple close to the 1st one... drilled a few holes, added a 'magic slurry',overnight rock had babies !!! OK, it split into several chunks...
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Wayne180d
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Posted: 04 Aug 2023 at 11:19pm |
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50 miles south of Chicago a neighbor of hours tried to dig a rock out of his field there was about a 3 to 4 foot piece above ground He dug down on both sides of it with a 1206 IH and all you could see was the top of the exhaust and never even moved it.
Edited by Wayne180d - 04 Aug 2023 at 11:19pm
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560Dennis
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Posted: 06 Aug 2023 at 6:27am |
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not that big
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Travis2766
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Posted: 12 Aug 2023 at 8:19am |
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I’ve got them that size and all the little (fist to watermelon size) pain in the azz ones that need to be picked yearly until I decide I’ve had enough. My kids are the 6th generation to pick rocks on these fields and there’s no end in sight, too bad there’s not a market for rocks!
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captaindana
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Posted: 12 Aug 2023 at 8:47am |
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I always said going to Cornell I had a degree in pickn’ rocks. It seems like such a brainless waste of time and effort but absolutely necessary. Our 250 acres have always been hand picked since the 1840’s in our family.
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IBWD MIke
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Posted: 13 Aug 2023 at 8:03am |
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There is a market for 'decorative' rocks! See them for sale all the time around here. Pretty sure it's big business in Minnesota too.
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BrianC
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Posted: 13 Aug 2023 at 12:45pm |
I have read that the fields "grow" rocks. Some sort of frost thaw heaving action. I am going to call baloney on that. Over thousands of years, all the rocks would be up, and all the land covered with a field of rocks. I don't see that. What say you guys?
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 13 Aug 2023 at 3:35pm |
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I respectfully disagree with you
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IBWD MIke
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Posted: 14 Aug 2023 at 7:16am |
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Me too! If the frost didn't work them to the surface I'd have been done picking them up long ago! Applying anhydrous with a knife bar brings them up too. Really, any kind of tillage helps bring them to the surface.
Edited by IBWD MIke - 14 Aug 2023 at 7:17am
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ac hunter
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Posted: 14 Aug 2023 at 7:47am |
A few years ago we acquired some adjacent property and had to clear some trees and a rock that stuck above the ground about the size of a dish pan. Couldn't budge it with the loader. After a bit of digging with a big track hoe it turned out to be about the size of Macon's big rock. Well the Mrs. spied it and wanted it in the middle of a flower bed beside the house. So we paid the $120/ hr. machine to bring it about 1/3 of a mile to the house. But she's happy. I have always thought erosion may play a part in getting rocks to the surface.
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exSW
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Posted: 14 Aug 2023 at 10:56am |
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My joke is 10,000 years ago the glacier slid south, stopped ,melted on my farm and dropped every rock between here and Canada. Plus we have a bedrock out crop. But the biggest was a glaciated limestone boulder they found escavating for a new township bridge. A JD 350G escavator couldn't move it(it would have made a hell of a yard rock). Bigger than a Voltswagon. It had rolled under that glacier for a ways and awhile as it were near perfectly round. They just built around it.
Edited by exSW - 15 Aug 2023 at 9:44pm
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dp7000
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Posted: 14 Aug 2023 at 12:37pm |
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My father use to say “only one way to get rid of rocks, die and leave em”.
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ac hunter
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Posted: 15 Aug 2023 at 10:25am |
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Reminds me of an old story concerning rocks on a farm. Farmer said that the rocks were brought to his farm by a glacier. City guy asked where the glacier went. Farmer replied, "back for more rocks".
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 15 Aug 2023 at 12:06pm |
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exSW
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Posted: 15 Aug 2023 at 9:46pm |
 ac hunter wrote:
Reminds me of an old story concerning rocks on a farm. Farmer said that the rocks were brought to his farm by a glacier. City guy asked where the glacier went. Farmer replied, "back for more rocks". |
Yep.
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Macon Rounds
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Posted: 16 Aug 2023 at 9:45am |
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re-purposed rocks !!!
never any shortage of someplace to make them purposefull ...
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Macon Rounds
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Posted: 17 Aug 2023 at 7:34pm |
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