Heavy-Duty Rock Digger

Heavy-Duty Rock Digger ROCK PICKERS Rock Pickers 18-5-10 "I've used it to dig out rocks so big the tractor couldn't drag them off the field. I had to use a Caterpillar," says Joe Dugan, Roblin, Manitoba, about his heavy-duty rock digger made out of a track pad off a Caterpillar tractor. The pad is welded to a frame that mounts on the 3-pt. hitch on his Versatile 276 tractor. "It works good on the bi-directional 276 because visibility is so good when digging out a rock and it's got hydrostatic drive. Most stones 3 to 4 ft. in dia. come out with one push. On bigger rocks, you can work around them, loosening them up before lifting them out of the ground" Dugan sets the angle of digging with the 3-pt. center link. The digger sticks down about 2 ft. and is hard enough steel so he's never been able to bend it no matter how big the rock. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Joe Dugan, Box 906, Roblin, Manitoba, Canada.

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