Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

[John B]

I haven't got one. But I do have a smashed bit of siding/cladding plywood. And a lawnmower.
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I'm thinking a bow would be good.



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[Phil Y]

Or wheels.

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[bluedog225]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

We dont need no stinkin tractor!

[L.W. Baxter]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

way to uninvent the wheel, john b!

[oldsub86]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

They used to be called a stone boat. Farmers would go through a field with a team of horses or oxen pulling a flat metal plate and remove stones from the soil and toss them on the stone boat.

[Rich Jones]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

I've dragged lots of stuff around my property with my lawn tractor. Works just fine!

[goodbasil]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

In northern Alberta I've used one on the spring, hooked to a tractor to pick up (roll) boulders onto it each spring. Backbreaking work even when I was 16-17. I lasted one spring. Rocks "pop" up every spring.

But it was nessasary, It gives new meaning to the term, "get your rocks off."

[David W Pratt]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Could be a harrowing experience

[Garret]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

If you want an easy vehicle to tow with - try a zero turn.

Having removed my share of rocks with a stone boat, shovel & crow bars - I can attest that it's way too much like work.

[John B]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

The great thing about a 'sled' is you don't pick anything up, just roll the rocks/44 gal drum/wool sack on. The grillo wheels do more damage than the ply.
I usually have it on a short tether which gives the bow some lift, but today I was towing it off mud , over a ditch and onto the drive with about 10 loads .
Those zero turn units are great but not for this place, it's a bit lumpy.

Stone boat eh, going to use that.
Especially considering that's what I first used it for.
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That think stuck up about an inch, kept hitting it and others. So I dug around it, levered it up with that Y and floated it out by rolling firewood logs under it one at a time. Funny as a fight, perched on the damn lever and trying to get the log to roll just so while yelling 'Archimedes'. Anyway that's when the ply sheet became repurposed to the stone boat heh heh. Love that.
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[Garret]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Eric Sloane, a US artist of history (my term) did this:

[John B]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Cool cool cool, nothing new under the sun eh.

[Garret]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Cool cool cool, nothing new under the sun eh.

Nope - but if you didn't know about 'em, you still invented it

[Andrew2]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Hum
I have 40 cu. mt. of rocks to move and a little old tractor that I am tidying up. Prob use a bit of metal sheet, instead of the trailer I was going to make.
Thanks guys.
A2

[Old Dryfoot]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Eric Sloane, a US artist of history (my term) did this:

Been there, done that.