"Best Ever" Rock Picking Bucket

"Best Ever" Rock Picking Bucket ROCK PICKERS Rock Pickers 28-2-25 You can turn a skid steer loader into a fast, efficient rock picker with the Pikrite bucket from OMKO. The $3,000 attachment lets one person pick rocks by the bucketful, dump them in a rock wagon and then keep on picking. The unit is equipped with a set of 7 hydraulically controlled steel teeth that dig under the rock. The teeth, which pivot on the edge of the bucket, leverage a rock or boulder up, back and into the bucket. "It's easy to use, and you are able to fill up the whole bucket," explains Larry Omann, the central Minnesota farmer who designed and now builds the Pikrite. The steel teeth and open grate bucket means that dirt falls out as rocks are picked up. Used with a rock wagon, one operator can quickly clear a field by himself. "They work so efficiently that a lot of farmers are share-buying them," says Omann. The 3 by 5-ft. bucket with teeth weighs 700 lbs. empty. Omann recommends a 35- to 75-hp skid steer loader for mounting. He points out that the attachment is more than just a rock picker. "It's a great landscaping or clearing tool," he says. "You can transplant trees up to 10 ft. tall or pick up firewood, clear brush or clean up around a construction site." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Pikrite, 39947 95th Ave., Saint Joseph, Minn. 56374 (ph 320 251-4274 or 320 363-1775; email: sales@pikrite.net).

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