we live at the foot of the Mission Mountains in Western Montana and the soil surveys say that for our soils, 85% of the rocks are under 3-1/2 to 4 inches. Don"t I wish! We have large numbers of rocks that are size of Volkswagons. Most of the hay shakers around here have gone to using big rollers to roll their hay ground in the spring. This keeps the rocks in the ground and they don"t damage their mowers when cutting hay.
I did some excavating work in our pastures, running water lines and removing big rocks so we could rum wheel lines. They were so big a huge trackhoe could not lift them. They had to bury them with the tops at three feet below the surface. I bought a New Holland rock bucket for my tractor and picked up everything > 3 inches with it. The rest I have to pick by hand. I dare say if I removed all the rocks from the top three feet of soil, our pastures would be about a foot and a half lower!
So you can buy a roller and roll them into the ground every spring or pick them and carry them to the edge of the field. You have my sympathy whatever you chose to do.
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