Abstract: The present invention relates to rock and root pickers. The picker disclosed in this application consists of a mobile vehicle with a fork table mounted thereon for movement between a picking position wherein it skims rocks from a surface over which the vehicle is moving and a dumping position wherein the fork table is positioned upwardly from the surface. A rotary reel is also mounted on the vehicle forwardly of the fork table to engage small rocks and roll them rearwardly onto the fork table. A dump bucket is mounted on the vehicle rearwardly of the fork table and receives rocks from the fork table when it is raised. In a preferred embodiment the vehicle is a self propelled swather and the rock picker is an attachment that is mounted on the vehicle in place of the header thereof.