Big Muddy rancher said:I don't know why you cut down trees to build corrals you could just build rock walls. :shock:
Yep, you got to love how easy a lot of things are in Canada. Where I grew up gathering an 8 acre field was a 4 or 5 day job for 2 people and you weren't slacking either. Funny how you guys call everything rocks. The little things in gcranch's pictures were what we would call "chuckies" ie small enough to be thrown (chucked)- generally not worth picking. Stones are bigger - takes two hands or sometimes two men to lift them, rocks are the fixtures - the things of garden shed size mainly buried with the top protruding. We had so many stones my Dad used to say you could hear the ground rattling when the grass started to grow.per said:Half a day a year will pick all my rocks with 2 people. Having said that, can't find 2 willing people so a neighbour and I bought a rock picker together. Our late seventies dad's are in charge of the picking job now. :wink:
Grassfarmer said:Yep, you got to love how easy a lot of things are in Canada. Where I grew up gathering an 8 acre field was a 4 or 5 day job for 2 people and you weren't slacking either. Funny how you guys call everything rocks. The little things in gcranch's pictures were what we would call "chuckies" ie small enough to be thrown (chucked)- generally not worth picking. Stones are bigger - takes two hands or sometimes two men to lift them, rocks are the fixtures - the things of garden shed size mainly buried with the top protruding. We had so many stones my Dad used to say you could hear the ground rattling when the grass started to grow.per said:Half a day a year will pick all my rocks with 2 people. Having said that, can't find 2 willing people so a neighbour and I bought a rock picker together. Our late seventies dad's are in charge of the picking job now. :wink:
Silver said:That is a good looking rockpicker gcreek. We don't have one anymore. We generally pick the big ones by hand now as there seems to be less of them than there used to be, and the rest we push back down where the came from with the help of a land roller. Out of sight out of mind is the theory :wink: