A machine for picking up rocks from soils having a structure suitable for being moved over the surface of the soil, by means of a pair of side wheels, being towed by a tractor vehicle from which it receives movement through its power take-off. The machine has rock extraction and uprooting elements incorporated on the advancing edge of the machine, made in the form of teeth, associated with a tooth bar region of the structure of the machine, having certain play, a rotating movable feed reel with teeth, a conveyor belt for lifting said rocks up through an inclined plane from a leading edge to a trailing edge located at a greater height; a rock collection and accumulation hopper arranged on the trailing edge.