Posted by Hal/Eastern WA on May 14, 2012 at 11:19:43 from (97.119.244.50):
In Reply to: Farm 'names' posted by DeltaRed on May 14, 2012 at 08:09:26:
My Dad always called our ranch "The Rockpile", since there are so many areas that have rock outcrops. The corner of the old ranch that I now live on also has plenty of rock in some places, so I guess it is still a pretty good name.
I have areas that I can plow and not dig up any rocks, but most of the tillable soil yields at least some rocks every time it is disturbed. The geologists say that this area was once covered by a glacial lake, and obviously it was in the path of the glacial Lake Missoula floods thousands of years ago. Some of the rocks I find are smoothed granite that possibly dropped off floating icebergs, but most of the rock is basalt, which might be any size and shape.
I hate to think of how many hundreds of tons of rocks I have picked off our fields in my lifetime. Yet I kind of enjoy that job, somehow. When I was a kid, we hauled rocks on a stone boat, but later we got tractors with front buckets, which makes it a whole lot easier to unload. I still load most rocks I pick by hand or using a manure fork.
Yeah, I think The Rockpile is a pretty good name for my property!
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