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UP / Thumb of Michigan | Seen them work, never ran one. As you've surmised, they do a nice job cleaning as long as land prep is done correctly. Harley has a lot of moving parts, but wear should be easy to spot. They're limited to stone smaller than whatever the throat width is- seems like a 11" rock was the limit it could pick? As mentioned, no rake on picker. That's OK, in the big scheme I never wanted a one pass type deal if given a choice. Seen them work at a golf course once- I believe it could clean up a marble spill as far as how it did on small rock with the right screen. Also, just going from memory, they had at least 2 dump heights. The low lift wasn't real high at all, can't remember how high the high lift went. There are a few in my neighbor hood, They worked OK on the right size rock.
A Haybuster will handle similar size stone as a Harley. Has a rake incorporated into it. Probably won't be able to clean dirt out as well as a Harley, at least not without running a seperate rake trip. They're usually cheaper to buy, they work OK I'd say. I have ran one of those a couple of times. If you have a field of softball to muskmelon size stone, it'd work fine.
We had a couple of farms that had some real trophies. Rock in general was pretty large, more than either of the previous mentioned pickers would handle. We were using an Anderson Rake and picker there. If I could drive a 4020 Deere over the rock, I could get it into the picker. Conversely, the Anderson wouldn't pick rock smaller than a baseball. The Anderson worked a lot better after a rake pass, the rake operator needed to be on his toes as to what the windrows looked like.
Ultimately, the picker you need all depends on the rock to be picked.
Edited by pat-michigan 2/25/2011 08:12
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Anyone have experience with Harley rock pickers?
