My Ancestors Didn't See This Coming

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  • @jfiery
    @jfiery Рік тому +104

    But my grandfather always told me that the reason there were more rocks in the same field the next year was because I missed a pair the year before. Told me they were closely related to rabbits and that if you leave two rocks in a field the next time you come back they'll be 30 of them.

    • @trwaintime
      @trwaintime Рік тому +4

      🤣🙂🙃🙂🤣👍

  • @garywatts8543
    @garywatts8543 Рік тому +1

    Stone percolation, so fun!

  • @michaeladams1041
    @michaeladams1041 Рік тому +1

    Should Get A Broom Attachment for the skid steer really clean the floor good

  • @steveberres3589
    @steveberres3589 Рік тому +2

    Awesome Watching !! Been Awhile Back!! Love Farming!!

  • @steveberres3589
    @steveberres3589 Рік тому +1

    Love Watching!!

  • @user-hc6xm8jo9q
    @user-hc6xm8jo9q Рік тому +32

    No better feeling than 3 generations working on the same farm at the same time, keep up the good work guys🚜

  • @williammiller8134
    @williammiller8134 Рік тому +1

    4:09 love it

  • @prestons8732
    @prestons8732 Рік тому +8

    It’s good to see a new surprise guest! I mean the master pipe layer and the tillage man are great but the president on channel now as well is another level!

  • @jamesberg3106
    @jamesberg3106 Рік тому +4

    You are so blessed to be able work with your dad. I lost mine when I was 18. 50 years ago. My blessing is our 18 year old that likes tractors and mechanical things.

  • @brianhartman5845
    @brianhartman5845 Рік тому +2

    Thank you Becky for leaving it in!!!

  • @adambrewer4400
    @adambrewer4400 Рік тому +150

    catdog is for certain the most devoted employee on the farm from what I see

  • @tudorpreda5980
    @tudorpreda5980 Рік тому +1

    Glad to see you back sir!

  • @markellis6727
    @markellis6727 Рік тому +2

    Good seeing your next generation of family farmer out there learning and getting on the job training, someone will be watching their video's one day

  • @michaeljames4469
    @michaeljames4469 Рік тому +53

    So cool to see three generations working the family farm. Thanks.

  • @dhansel4835
    @dhansel4835 Рік тому +1

    I saw that old rake at time line 12:19. I still have one of those things that uses a rope that makes it self dumping from the tractor.

  • @jefflee5047
    @jefflee5047 Рік тому +115

    It’s always cool to see Anna and Didge enjoy their UTV rides. Living their best doggie lives.😊

  • @scottsymons6152
    @scottsymons6152 Рік тому +104

    That rock picker is NOT A WASTE OF MONEY!! I've walked and picked up enough through the years. Wish I had something like that.

    • @michaelolenick4078
      @michaelolenick4078 Рік тому +4

      I agree, wish we had one, maybe they should try pi k I ng rocks, see how their back feels after a few years by just picking them up.

    • @elizabethliska5377
      @elizabethliska5377 Рік тому +6

      In the late 70's and early 80's we picked rocks by hand. Put them in the back of a pickup or in an atv box. $20 a day surely wasn't good enough!! Luckily the biggest ones we had were the size of a football.

    • @kieranbudke2343
      @kieranbudke2343 Рік тому

      but we love ✨toiling in the hot sun ✨ here

    • @michelle778
      @michelle778 Рік тому +2

      It is not a waste of money, but his ancestors in Sweden would laugh about his stone infested fields...
      Should get a stonefork for the loader as well...

    • @reidisaacson9623
      @reidisaacson9623 Рік тому

      We’ve always just used a “rock bucket “ on the skid steer.

  • @dennismartin03
    @dennismartin03 Рік тому +42

    Idk what other people say. I've picked a lot of rocks in my life and I think that rock picker is definitely worth it. Especially for those size rocks!!

    • @AlabamaLinemanFarmer
      @AlabamaLinemanFarmer Рік тому +2

      Those folks have never had to go in the field and pick them by hand, that’s for sure!😂

  • @charleslynch7274
    @charleslynch7274 Рік тому +2

    Always love watching your videos

  • @ryned5861
    @ryned5861 Рік тому

    You don’t want to miss while hammering on sweeps

  • @GO-xs8pj
    @GO-xs8pj Рік тому +1

    You have perked up now that the snow is gone. Happy spring.

  • @oneofgodschildren
    @oneofgodschildren Рік тому +2

    Does your arm hurt from lugging the camera around yet?🤣 Congratulations on 1 million subs BTW 💥💥💥

  • @mikeclarke3005
    @mikeclarke3005 Рік тому

    Darn that was some fast plowing wow

  • @bjornthorell1432
    @bjornthorell1432 Рік тому +8

    Hello from a former Swedish farmer. I've been following you for a couple of years now, and it makes me happy to see your family's hard work and success. And I am also happy to see you still practice the Scandinavian honesty in your dayly life 👍😁👌💪

    • @MargyMontiertl
      @MargyMontiertl 11 місяців тому

      In social our issue is clay. I replaced all soil in my patios to a 4 feet depth, and new clay just creeps up

    • @MargyMontiertl
      @MargyMontiertl 11 місяців тому

      I’d love to know you better that’s only if you don’t mind cos you seems to be a nice and cool person

  • @miriambertram2448
    @miriambertram2448 Рік тому +2

    In SoCal our issue is Clay. I replaced all soil in my patios to a 4 feet depth, and new clay just creeps up.

  • @markmummery
    @markmummery Рік тому

    I was rock picking today..hate it lol

  • @Ne9n
    @Ne9n Рік тому +1

    Grandpa called rocks spring potatoes and we had a lot of them er had a moraine running through our land. We picked a little MF 35 with a bucket and a flat rack. we moved a fence row where rocks had been piled for 100 years lots of hones work

    • @MargyMontiertl
      @MargyMontiertl 11 місяців тому +1

      In social our issue is clay. I replaced all soil in my patios to a 4 feet depth, and new clay just creeps up

  • @stevenicoson6670
    @stevenicoson6670 Рік тому +5

    Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable.
    Busy busy time getting ready for spring field work.
    When the planter arrives to you, it looks like you are ready to go. Go get em. Time to put corn seed in the ground.
    Always something around the shop and farmstead that needs some attention.
    Your rock picker does a great job I think. Onyx does a real good job with it. Good show onyx. That rock picker saves a lot of heavy lifting and handling the rocks.
    Hope your planter arrives soon.
    Thanks for everything Zach and onyx and dad and Becky.
    The Iowa Farm Boy.
    Steve.

  • @donmathias1705
    @donmathias1705 Рік тому +2

    A couple of tynes bolted to your bucket would be ideal for popping and hauling your big rocks. Just a couple of tapered heavy tunes fitted into a box frame that clipped on to the front edge of your bucket and a back support bolted to top of your bucket. Something you only needed to undo a pair of 5/8" bolts to hold.

  • @dennislamers986
    @dennislamers986 Рік тому +2

    Rock picker is pretty cool. As a person that walked many fields picking rocks. I'm sold.

  • @bigsav1984
    @bigsav1984 Рік тому +4

    At 4:12 I think you meant to say every politician in this country lol

  • @lucascady4992
    @lucascady4992 Рік тому +12

    Happy to see good weather, we here in Western Michigan are having a great week for getting farm things done! 🤞

  • @f150tom
    @f150tom Рік тому +9

    Back sometime in the 80s, my father in law had hurt his back in the spring and had a couple relatives help out with rock picking. When they came back in they told him "we got all of the rocks". He laughed and said "If you got all the rocks out of that field, I'll have a open-pit mine out there...:

  • @CALVO36
    @CALVO36 Рік тому +1

    Moon rocks 😂lol 😮😮wow zack some beast that boulder 😮😊well done ..he's a top lad jnr too!! 😊

  • @phillacy5545
    @phillacy5545 Рік тому +4

    Boy Dad is humming right along. It's nice to watch you farm and all the things you do. Atleast some people have it together ❤️

    • @MargyMontiertl
      @MargyMontiertl 11 місяців тому

      In social our issue is clay. I replaced all soil in my patios to a 4 feet depth, and new clay just creeps up

    • @MargyMontiertl
      @MargyMontiertl 11 місяців тому

      I’d love to know you better phill, that’s only if you don’t mind cos you seems to be a nice and cool person

    • @phillacy5545
      @phillacy5545 11 місяців тому

      @MargyMontiertl so who are you? I mean what about you?

    • @MargyMontiertl
      @MargyMontiertl 11 місяців тому

      @@phillacy5545 I’m Tracy ann, originally from VA but currently living alone here in Battle Creek MI.

    • @MargyMontiertl
      @MargyMontiertl 11 місяців тому +1

      @@phillacy5545 I enjoy the simple things like the ocean, cuddling at home and watching a movie with someone special, going to the beach with loved ones.

  • @douglassellers7528
    @douglassellers7528 Рік тому +1

    Busy work drives me crazy. A little here a little there. You finish the day up and think what did I do today? Hope you get that planter rolling.

    • @MargyMontiertl
      @MargyMontiertl 11 місяців тому

      In social our issue is clay. I replaced all soil in my patios to a 4 feet depth, and new clay just creeps up

    • @MargyMontiertl
      @MargyMontiertl 11 місяців тому

      I’d love to know you better that’s only if you don’t mind cos you seems to be a nice and cool person

  • @a.j.leonard964
    @a.j.leonard964 Рік тому +7

    I wonder how you became the dogs driver lol. It makes me happy seeing you and your son working together.

  • @buddybresett8356
    @buddybresett8356 Рік тому +1

    Rocks and more rocks.

  • @Snigismund
    @Snigismund Рік тому +1

    Greatings from Denmark, just bought a cap and a hoodie so i can represent in my local farming community :D

  • @lawnman1226
    @lawnman1226 Рік тому +4

    Man that’s so cool you and your dad get to work together!! Keep up the fantastic work!!👍🏼👍🏼

  • @stevebiddle8912
    @stevebiddle8912 Рік тому +4

    That was one huge rock!! Always enjoy seeing Onyx in the videos. Your Dad seems like the easiest guy on the planet to work with!!!

  • @jimfromstem9506
    @jimfromstem9506 Рік тому +1

    good explanation on how you grow rocks.central nc doesn't get as cold so our rocks don't grow as fast.the spotted dog always looks guilty.

  • @stevendufresne9994
    @stevendufresne9994 Рік тому +2

    Thanks Zach for the Video!!👍👍

  • @Xy11212
    @Xy11212 Рік тому +4

    Hey man I work at a coal plant and we are sweating up coal dust all the time and one of the worst things is the dust it kicks up it just gets everything dusty!!! So we use this stuff called dust cop you should look into it! It’s handy to keep dust under control

  • @sylviabarda262
    @sylviabarda262 5 місяців тому

    I like the way you take care of those dog.😊

  • @philipkimber6302
    @philipkimber6302 Рік тому +1

    looking at your floor - it must be time for one of those little machines that the Larson Farms have to do the job. Imagine the fun!

  • @jamesklink4698
    @jamesklink4698 Рік тому

    Nice. #!!! 😊😊😊

  • @wcooman1694
    @wcooman1694 Рік тому

    My brother & I were the rockpicker. Can't begin to calculate the tons of rocks we picked. We pulled a 15'x4'(?) trailer behind tractor to pile them up on. I remember one time, we hand dug out one that must have been about 300#. Pulled one wheel of the trailer into the hole which made the trailer about a foot lower. Somehow, we managed to get that thing onto the trailer. As far as where the rocks come from, we figured dad went out at night and planted them just we had something to do.

  • @dfarmer_
    @dfarmer_ Рік тому +5

    I appreciate all you humor - even if I don't get the reference or don't like the joke. I come here for entertainment so please continue to make jokes about whomever or whatever you want (it is YOUR channel after all) and I'll continue to not complain when I don't like it.

  • @randyloewen9234
    @randyloewen9234 Рік тому +3

    We live in a VERY rocky area in South West Saskatchewan. Dad asked Granddad if the pioneers realized it was so rocky. Granddad said yes, they could hear them clink on the wagon wheels. But they thought they’d pick them once & be done. Didn’t realize there was a never ending supply! 🥺

    • @Chris-jr2nu
      @Chris-jr2nu Рік тому +1

      Hey I'm Southwest Saskatchewan too. Out by Ogema

  • @sannmarc
    @sannmarc Рік тому +1

    You hit 1M! Anna I hope you enjoy your first ride

  • @wbball15
    @wbball15 Рік тому +159

    This Minnesota guy is kinda good at this.

    • @shannonharris
      @shannonharris Рік тому +7

      He's not a guy... He's a MFing machine 😂

    • @DmasDer
      @DmasDer Рік тому +4

      @@shannonharris i thought he`s an actor :D

    • @Tsteve56
      @Tsteve56 Рік тому +6

      You must be talking about Chet Larson

    • @MillennialFarmer
      @MillennialFarmer  Рік тому +19

      It depends on the day 😂

    • @TheCrewChief374
      @TheCrewChief374 Рік тому +2

      ​@@DmasDer Well if he is an actor, he sure better go get his money back😂

  • @MustangsTrainsMowers
    @MustangsTrainsMowers Рік тому +9

    As a kid on the dairy farm in the 1970’s I most dreaded dealing with a dead animal, trying to stack hay on a wagon when I didn’t have the strength yet to do so and picking rocks in the spring and summer on sunny days with no wind. I sure miss the farm my family sold in 1981 when I was 14 but I’m not sure how well I would have done on it had we kept it. I got Lyme disease around age 16 and my many health problems weren’t diagnosed until my 40’s.

  • @tombarber1062
    @tombarber1062 Рік тому +2

    Damn, was hoping for a floor cleaning montage at the end 😜

  • @PhilRable
    @PhilRable Рік тому +2

    Love the rock picker, and rocks always come up in my friends paddocks so it’s just the way it is. Get a “Power Broom” to clean the shed floors. Scene them used in warehouses and it does a great job quickly.

  • @seagullsbtn
    @seagullsbtn Рік тому +44

    Rock, Puppy, Science with a dash of history. MF impresses every time.

  • @seanzyw.2603
    @seanzyw.2603 Рік тому +1

    Don't take me wrong, Zach love you you're the creator of Millennial farmer, but your dad is the star of the show he reminds me of my grandpa and everytime I see him I just gotta chuckle because that's my papa.😊

  • @KingSharms
    @KingSharms Рік тому +1

    Love to you and the family.

  • @lstone.09
    @lstone.09 Рік тому +6

    Awesome video Zach. This year lookd way better than last yr. 🚜🚜🚜

  • @ejharrop1416
    @ejharrop1416 Рік тому +5

    Thank you and I hope Cat Dog gets to ride along someday. Take care and stay safe.

  • @briacoffey8363
    @briacoffey8363 Рік тому +1

    When the glaciers that covered Minnesota melted, they dropped huge loads of clay, sand, gravel, and boulders that had been trapped in the ice. This unconsolidated and unsorted debris is known as glacial drift. This glacial drift is the reason for the boulders being found in your area of MN for the past 12,000+ years.

  • @coleengogerty3852
    @coleengogerty3852 Рік тому +1

    Walking beans and picking up rocks made me a lot of money when I was younger! It may have been hard work, but it was fun with friends there!

  • @jake-ps3bq
    @jake-ps3bq Рік тому +15

    We call it growing rocks. That kids is lucky because we used to have a wagon and we had to pick up the rocks and put them into the wagon.

    • @deblarsen8528
      @deblarsen8528 Рік тому +4

      Yup, then when that wagon was full, you got to have lunch, but not until it was FULL!

    • @johnhoffer5429
      @johnhoffer5429 Рік тому +5

      Builds character and a strong back

    • @mikewithers299
      @mikewithers299 Рік тому +3

      We used a pickup truck when I was a kid. The rocks would roll off the flat wagon. Eventually the front-end loader came in handy in later years

    • @karlsborgwi.jewell9919
      @karlsborgwi.jewell9919 Рік тому +2

      Don’t forget….ya got to pick them up again to unload the wagon

  • @DmasDer
    @DmasDer Рік тому +2

    Just ordered a Shirt and used the coupon code. Shipping is more than the shirt. But its worth it. Thank you for the great content.

  • @debbiethompson9029
    @debbiethompson9029 Рік тому

    My husband grew up in upstate NY. He said he filled the basement of an old barn over the years with rocks from the garden.

  • @allenhanus6118
    @allenhanus6118 Рік тому +2

    Your stuff is great. Thanks Zach

  • @steveneal2706
    @steveneal2706 Рік тому +5

    Great video Zach. Thank you dad and son.

    • @MargyMontiertl
      @MargyMontiertl 11 місяців тому

      In social our issue is clay. I replaced all soil in my patios to a 4 feet depth, and new clay just creeps up

    • @MargyMontiertl
      @MargyMontiertl 11 місяців тому

      I’d love to know you better that’s only if you don’t mind cos you seems to be a nice and cool person

  • @4viation737
    @4viation737 Рік тому +5

    Yay a completely dry spring video.🎉 we just got 1 or 2 inches of rain today.

  • @ljs6446
    @ljs6446 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for teaching !!! And for the education 😊

  • @justinharpold2892
    @justinharpold2892 Рік тому +1

    We plant just under 8000 and just finished up last Friday in Central Indiana. But if I'm ever out that way if love to see the farm or even lend a hand

    • @colorado1088
      @colorado1088 Рік тому

      Joseph Stalin tried collective farming of thousands of acres and couldn't make it work. You make it work.

  • @jeffclinch7448
    @jeffclinch7448 Рік тому

    We used to get three rocks per load. Frost great for loosing up soil, but grows rocks. Oh yah that's every 100th acre. Not black soil but very fertile.

  • @douglashayes3167
    @douglashayes3167 Рік тому

    I got a DOGCAT as well.... a 25# Maine Coon "Cat".... Kevin is my buddy... he is at least 50% dog...40% goat.... he LOVES and eats everything... including Jalapeno peppers which he scrambles for if I drop one while dicing... I don't have an answer for his weird palette...and he gets Cugo over stuff like Venison or Squirrel - (his favorite) just saying.... he knows when that goes in the Crock pot......

  • @gapprs84
    @gapprs84 Рік тому +4

    I actually did an estimate for a ag focused ag business like you used for the rocks and other aerial surveying. The time saving for large farms will offset the cost of the service.

  • @smhammer92
    @smhammer92 Рік тому

    12:25 That's Cole the Cornstar talk...

  • @deanworkman5718
    @deanworkman5718 Рік тому +2

    This is one of your best educational videos

  • @manskeinc
    @manskeinc Рік тому +9

    Always love rock picking time!

  • @Mississippi-xj7rq
    @Mississippi-xj7rq Рік тому +4

    Well I never asked but always wondered???
    The freeze and thaw pushing ricks up makes perfect sense. Us folks down here in the sip AKA Mississippi. Do t take our jackets out the truck until the night lows are in the 70s. Ty Becky for leaving that Biden comment in. Classic!!!

  • @jeffstanaszek2272
    @jeffstanaszek2272 Рік тому +2

    I really enjoyed this, thank you!!

  • @America-First2024
    @America-First2024 Рік тому +65

    Can you imagine how popular you would be if you had just a rock picking channel?

  • @michaelrussell6661
    @michaelrussell6661 Рік тому

    When I was working in a Vineyard in the 80's, I was in a work gang of 8 guys picking up boulders from a new area. I was on the boulder reduction job using a 100lbs Sledge hammer, I could most of the time break the boulder up in 1 hit by hitting it in the right spot. Whilst the other 7 guys picked up the rock with a rock trailer. The overseer couldnt believe I could shatter the boulders with one hit til I showed him how. :D
    The CatDog is about the hardest working employee AND the cheapest as he's paid in mice.

  • @stevehaken
    @stevehaken Рік тому +1

    Great video. Exciting pre-planting time of year.

    • @MargyMontiertl
      @MargyMontiertl 11 місяців тому

      I’d love to know you better that’s only if you don’t mind cos you seems to be a nice and cool person

  • @jarrettsmith2415
    @jarrettsmith2415 Рік тому

    That’s one way to find the rocks and there’s apps out there that you can put on your phone that will talk to the tractor and when you’re out scouting and you find a rock you can flag it on your phone and when you go out with the tractor you can pull it up on your tractor screen to see where it was flagged

  • @TheGeorunner
    @TheGeorunner Рік тому +3

    Good to see you making dirt. We just finished peas this morning here in central NY...

    • @davidburns1781
      @davidburns1781 Рік тому

      Is there a good market for peas? Just curious I grew up with soybeans and corn

    • @TheGeorunner
      @TheGeorunner Рік тому

      @@davidburns1781 We are located near a frozen peas, snap bean and sweet corn facility. We grow a little bit of each. The market used to be better. We've grown less and less every year.

  • @oldvarmit
    @oldvarmit Рік тому +3

    Hi Zach, Just bought some merch from you. Keep up the great vids.

  • @mhh5340
    @mhh5340 Рік тому +2

    Can't wait to see the planter in Action.

  • @nathanjones5653
    @nathanjones5653 Рік тому

    12:19 can we see that pile of wood in the background burn when you get too it.

  • @abikeanditsboy3449
    @abikeanditsboy3449 Рік тому +2

    Hey Onyx, awesome looking dirtbike you got, bro.

  • @kayladiederich319
    @kayladiederich319 Рік тому

    I live a little south of you in Minnesota and today it was pouring rain

  • @damianryan5
    @damianryan5 Рік тому +2

    Zach a rock picking bucket on the loader of that 6175 would really make those big buried rocks easier to get out.

  • @Ped_mcg87
    @Ped_mcg87 Рік тому +1

    Love the vids and the wee man is a great worker you must be so proud 👏

  • @kevhead1525
    @kevhead1525 Рік тому +23

    It really is something how those rocks force themselves up like that. You'd think they were lighter than air.

    • @timothymbonham4453
      @timothymbonham4453 Рік тому +2

      It's the fact that they are *heavy* that makes them get pushed up by the freeze-thaw cycle.

    • @theron1317
      @theron1317 Рік тому +1

      Soil erosion plays a factor in rocks showing up. Nobody wants to talk about that.

    • @melindaburch4318
      @melindaburch4318 6 місяців тому +1

      @@theron1317 My brother’s name was Theron. Unusual. ❤️

    • @theron1317
      @theron1317 6 місяців тому

      Awesome

    • @theron1317
      @theron1317 6 місяців тому

      @@melindaburch4318 awesome

  • @theinfamoushvacrtech816
    @theinfamoushvacrtech816 Рік тому

    11:55 the props are getting better

  • @jimsmith9819
    @jimsmith9819 Рік тому

    i always picked rocks by hand and threw them in the loader bucket

  • @mfanwelikeit3760
    @mfanwelikeit3760 Рік тому +1

    I’d love to see you get one of those big mechanical dustpan and brushes.

  • @BrotherNoomkie
    @BrotherNoomkie Рік тому +3

    A sweeper attachment for the skid steer would be awesome.

  • @HenryLoenwind
    @HenryLoenwind Рік тому

    Last week I had to move around a couple of tiny rocks---just the size of 2-3 fists---in our garden. I won't call any machine used to move rocks unnecessary...

  • @BruceBergman
    @BruceBergman Рік тому

    Take Ray with you!😊 2:30

  • @escalade78
    @escalade78 Рік тому

    Thanks Becky, for not editing out..."that one comment" 😂

  • @quaedi6738
    @quaedi6738 Рік тому

    Rocks are relatet to rabitt's, if you leave 2 in a field in the fall, you will have 30 in spring....

  • @TUBEllaki
    @TUBEllaki Рік тому

    Hello good farmer. I would like to tell you what happened in Finland when I was bullied at my job at John Deere in a large company. There, bullying and isolation in the coffee room in the last situation were covered up. The big company made personnel transfers and covered up the situation. I would like your help and tell me about Deere's problems sometime if you can. You are a good guy and I enjoy watching your videos. I also hope that you will contact the John Deere company and take care of things, so that I can finally have peace of mind from being bullied at a workplace in Tampere, Finland. I wish you strength for farming and a good harvest
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