Rocks, Rocks Get Rid of Those Rocks
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- In this video we look at the need to pick rocks up in the field. This video features big John Deere machines including a 9620R 4wd, S790 Combine. 9420R 4wd, 9370R 4wd, DB60 planters and more. We will talk about tillage, planting and harvesting and how a rock picker makes these jobs easier. The video features a Schulte 320 Jumbo rock picker working in the field.
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We get rocks up here in Minnesota too. We have a 40 acre field that we just about get more rocks off than all the rest of the fields. Across the road from that 40 there was a field that many years ago the new owner windrowed the rocks & then picked them many times. They picked tons of rocks off that field but now they have a nice piece of land. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for sharing. There are some fields that produce a solid crop each year. That is good to hear they were able get that field cleaned up.
Amazing video and nice implement!!!
Thank you for watching.
I don't care how you do it picking up rocks and roots sucks . Everyone should be happy now . Thanks for the video!
Thank you for watching.
There is a harvest every year up here in New England that no one ever talks about. We harvest rocks and stones by the millions up here but there's no market for them so we just dump them on the side of the fields We're still waiting for someone to invent a rock picker that will last more that 1 season but try as they might it hasn't happened yet. Colonial farmers used to make truly beautiful stone walls with them all but we don't seem to have the time for that these days. I left a lot of knuckle skin on our 300 acres of corn fields
Another great vid Mike Thanks
Oh the memories. As a kid in the 70s and 80s I spent many hours on an open tractor with a fork type rock picker (no reel just a hydraulicly operated fork on the front that lifted the rocks and dumped them in a bucket in the back) once the bucket was full you couldn't use the fork anymore so you got off the tractor and picked stones by hand to heap the thing full because driving 1/2 mile to the stone pile with a partially full stone picker was seen as a waste. Also picked by hand when there was a patch with thick stones. Later we got a reel type picker which made things a tiny bit easier. The big thing was the switch to no-till. Tillage brings up the stones so no tillage equals no stones or less stones. Now with geo marking software on the planter, sprayer, and combine you can just look at a screen to see where the rocks are and drive there in your air conditioned tractor or if in the crop drive a side by side out there. Land rollers are a huge help when growing low legumes like soybeans, peas, lentils that have to be harvested tight to the ground. Big rollers push smaller stones and dirt lumps flat into the soil. Any stones the size of a football or larger won't get punched into the ground and need to be picked up.
Thanks for showing us that video,it shows that the farmer does care for his equipment. Again thanks 😎
Thank you for watching.
Every spring we had to walk certain new breaking fields to pick up rocks. Very necessary but not fun as a kid.
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Looks to me like its quicker to pick them by hand.
Kind of like small bales, toughened u up
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same her
Same! but my grandpa is selling his farm now:( Sry for my bad english. Greetings from sweden.
Picking up rocks will wear through a pair of gloves darn quick! Seems like spring days spent in the field picking up rocks usually preceded summer days of throwing rocks into sprinkler tracks! Out here in the arid west, pivot irrigation can lead to deep ruts and stuck sprinklers. It's always frustrating picking up rocks from one part of the field and throwing them into another. Great video, fun to see how farms work in other parts of the country.
I remember plowing and once in a while a plow bottom would hit a big rock making the tractor slow down until the bottom trips. We had the older IH plow with witch we would have to stop, and backup to reset the bottom. My brothers would get mad if I forgot to tell them where big rocks were. One spring one of my brothers hit a huge rock. We tried to dig it out and discovered it was at least 3’ if not 4’ in each direction. So we dug a deeper hole beside it and pushed it in. Rock are a pita to farmers.
I grew up in WNY where stones are prevalent. I remember watch plow trips springing well. What size IH did you run? The 710 and 800s were popular in WNY. There was field on the road I grew up on that had a stone so large that when they tried digging it up with a back hoe the back hoe could not budge it. They just left and a small tip of the stone is visible on the surface and they just go around it .
As a kid in the 70s & 80s, I would plant corn with tractor with loader. As I came upon a big rock, I'd stop, throw / roll it into the bucket and then dump when I got to the end of the field. When were were going to seed a field, usually my sisters, mom, cousins & aunt would be out picking stones and loading them on a hay rack. We had some field where they would load up 10-15 wagons! Me & Dad usually had the chore of loading the gut-busters/hernia-makers!
Neat history. What tractor and loader did you run to plant with ?
@@bigtractorpower We had a MF 265 & MF 4 row corn planter & IH 12' grain drill. Out "big" tractor was a MF 1135 that was dyno'd at 160.
Those fields look pretty good to start with lol We have some pretty rocky ground here.
Rocks are not a huge issue here in WKY. Just in patches here in there in a field. Normally on a hill part of a field.
My uncle used a mechanical rock picker; until he realized his farm was ending up in the fence row ! I've done my share of manual picking ! In this part of NJ it was also a task where the sharp-eyed could find a lot of native artifacts ranging from arrow heads to hide scrapers to axes, etc. crafted from stone .
Great video thanks BTP!
We run a heavy roller over our bean ground right after planting. It smashes the rocks down flush with the surface of the soil and almost eliminates rock damage to the combine. Also helps with soil erosion. We get more rock damage to our corn heads.
Rollers are a hand tool. They also help germination.
Interesting video thankyou for your hard work putting video's together you have an amazing channel
Thank you for watching.
Are you going to get any footage of OLF when he is baling straw in North and South Carolina?
Rocks & more Rocks. Some of your videos show fields that are clear of pebbles & rocks with a few having few rocks. When i lived in Israel, the farmers would say to me, god gave the Arabs oil and that god gave the Jews rocks. The farms there are loaded with rocks, more than I've ever witnessed here. Do they dump them in a collection point, crush them or use a service to get them off the the farm completely ? I've been recovering from surgery 03/15 8th spine, that's why you haven't seen my comments since that time. Be well my friend. You help bring a smile watching your wonderful Ag channel. Best Regards, Mark 🚜👍
Rock picking should be more revered ;-) All the down time and expense the rocks cause should persuade every operator / owner to value that operation as well as the others
A well maintained fleet of haybusters will clean the fields pretty good.
In Saskatchewan immediately after seeding field peas and soybeans we use a land roller to push stones in ground and level dirt. Seldom if ever pick a rock then even when shaving ground at harvest.
A land roller is a great way to go.
Enjoyed that video thanks, sam
Thank you for watching.
As a kid (8-12) I walked the fields behind the tractor and trash wagon picking up what I could. It was probably the reason I didn't want to be a farmer. I went in the Navy instead, that was sooo much easier... LOL
Get an Elho Scorpio 550. Picks all stones up to 16 inch in size.
Another great video. Sure hope they have a fleet of rock pickers. Looks like they'll need them on the land that goes in beans. I'm assuming this is the 13000 acer outfit?
This vid was a mix of clips of three farms I film at. The rock picker is part of another large farm. Most of the destruction clips are from the extra big farm. The big farm uses a Kongslide picker in the fall and Skid steers with rock buckets in the spring. I need to try to film the skid steeers going in the clean up stones.
I@@bigtractorpowerIs it feasible to use a rock picker for the areas covered in potato size rocks after a crop is planted? I'm thinking all the small rock will have to be hand picked or just left in the field. They're of course no big deal for any crop besides soybeans.
What’s this bad boy called? I got a John Deere and need to rent that implement.
Nice video, stones are just a time consuming job, they keep on growing,
Where I grew up in Western New York rocks were a second crop of the year that grew over the winter every year.
@@bigtractorpower it is amazing how mother eath just pushing it up, heavy stuff go done but rocks come to the surface lol
An old F150 in 4L idling across the field at a slow walking pace was the way we did it. One guy on each side if the truck throwing rocks into the bed, armed with an old corn crib rake in case some needed to be dug up. The truck got emptied out at the end of the row by the ditch or they were put on the river bank, depending on which field we were in
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I heard out there in KY there are rocks everywhere! We were very lucky to have land with very few rocks, but other fields nearby have them.
Stones are really not too big of an issue here they are just certain pockets of the field if you want to see if-year-olds full of rocks go to western New York up near Rochester they have a lot of rocks to contend with That are left over from the Ice Age.
@@bigtractorpower I hope the fields stay fields and not housing complexes after all the picking work ;)
If you like we can send you our flints, they're hell on tyres though for machinery I heard granite is the worst with on farmer here (UK) who broke the back end of his Gator collecting them.
If not you can always have our Green Garden Town where they are destroying over 750 hectares to build it with ideas already to expand it still.
98 years ago the IRA drove my family out of Ireland to here now it looks like the council and government could end up driving us out a 100 years on. Can I come to the US down want a huge farm just 150 acres would do nicely.
Kinze would be the company to make a planter that would be stone friendly.
Nothing beats Degelman rock pickers
Yup....Degelman is twice the picker Shulte is.
I like Degelman. I have not had a chance to film one yet. Degelman has a large picker they show being pulled by a Quadtrac. That’s the rock picker I want to film.
All Degelman equipment is heavy duty and well made. Their heavy harrows and land rollers often sell for near new price at auctions
Oh my God where was this when I was just a kid picking rocks out of my uncles field
Walking fields is a completely lost task seems like. Used to do that all the time. Once we switched to no-till, that was the end of that.
done that job many times by hand using wagon and yea not the best job but was a must
I think the best rock machine I have seen is on a skid steer it’s a 6 foot long 3 foot round hydraulic driven basket the driver just drives tips it into the ground and rocks go into it and it spins to remove dirt then dumps it out goes back for more. Search skid steer rock removal looks a lot more efficient
Down in south ga we have to pickup roots every year and is a very long process
That is a tough job. Are your clear land?
If farmers are using certain GPS programs in the tractor, they can mark the exact location of a rock they see so they know exactly where it's at when they come back with the picker. It's a pretty simple use of technology that not many think about.
Michael Taylor yup you sure can
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Hallo sir, i have a question please, in this large fams, do they use irragation or they depend on rain? thanks in advance for answering me, and if the answer is yes they use irragation , then what kind of irragation method? drip or
Irrigation is growing in popularity here. Some farms have pivot irrigation. The two most popular brands are T+L and Zimmatic. The majority here farms rely on the rain.
@@bigtractorpower THANK YOU SIR, be blessed
You like to see some fields with rocks, come on over my way!
Where do you farm? I grew up in western New York State and rocks are very prevalent there. A rock picker was a must have item for the farm’s I grew up on. Here in Western Kentucky stones are mainly found on Gil tops in the fields but not an entire field.
I am in East Central Minnesota. We have 2 different rock pickers and a rock rake. Also use a skeleton bucket with the skid steer to load a dump truck to haul rocks off the fields.
Any vids of a rock wind rower with a rock picker?
The farm that that owns the rock picker does have a Schulte rock rake. They pull it with a 4020. I have not had a chance to film it yet.
Hey BTP, did the farm that was looking for a V ripper last fall end up finding one from the help of one of your subcribers?
They found a nine shank in Iowa. I filmed it. I filmed it plowing up corn stubble.
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Oh that's good I must of missed the video.
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Do you have a link to the video, I can't seem to find it?
That type of soil seems to grow a never ending amount of rocks. That has to be frustrating for the farmer even with the rock removing equipment.
Luckily here it normally just a hill top that has stones not the entire field. If you go to Western New York among Lake Ontario the fields are all stones.
Pulling rocks after planting does the rock picker ever pull up the seed out of the ground?
No really as long as your just grabbing the lose stones on the surface.
are there any farms in the area that no till? instead of all the tillage
That's what I thought. Seems like a lot of money wasted on tillage and picking rocks.
No till corn planting was invented here in Western Kentucky in 1962. There are many many no till farms in this area. Although even in no till stoned push up to the surface. I made a video explaining why some farms in this area prefer tillage. Follow this link and go to the 7 minute mark and it will explain in detail why they prefer tillage m.ua-cam.com/video/0cZsKxEXyXg/v-deo.html
thank you, will check it out. @@bigtractorpower
Hey buddy what county is that in
This was filmed in Warren and Christian County.
Wish I had a dollar for every stone I’d picked up by hand as a kid! The first rock picker we bought blew my dad’s mind, thought it was witchcraft
What brand picker was your first model?
The thought of a rock going through that combine makes me cringe. Hopefully this video will settle down all the rock stars from the last video.
Thank you for watching. All the rock comments defiantly inspired this video.
I had to pick these rocks up by hand lol. Just a gator with a radio and a lot of walking
Good exercise. 😁
I guess that's just rock and roll
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Seems all I grow in my home garden is rocks. Even after 28yrs, they keep a growing !
Rocks are persistent. They seem to grow well over the winter. .
I have pick many rocks in my day.
By hand or with a picker?
@@bigtractorpower by hand
I suggest a land roller to push them rocks down
Large rollers are impressive and do a good job. The rocks here are in small patches in the fields so farm’s rely on pickers rather than a roller.
@@bigtractorpower we do both here. Before field cultivating but after ripping or chisel plowing we run a rock picker. But after soybean planting we run the roller and hand pick the corn fields
Can BTP relax . Your great , only you can explain . JD JD Tractor and planter perfect match , dealer desire , owner is happy. But Kinze Blue . its like some Ruski Vodka or a slow ballet . sssd fine
Looking good
Isn’t ToyTractorTimes and big tractor power the same person.
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You are correct. When the video posted it did not show any views or likes for nearly 10 minutes. I was just checking to make the video was working right by posting from TTT and to make sure it did not need to be reposted.
bigtractorpower OK just curious.
I don't miss that job
It’s not easy work.
Looks like they need a rock rake ahead of the picker
The farm with the Jumbo picker does have a rock rake. I have not caught up with it to film it yet.
Surely there are better rock picking machines out there ?
There are several brands of rock pickers. Most have the same style and look. Schulte is one of the top sellers. This the one I found to film.
TY for the answer. Hopefully you didn't take my remark against you for filming THIS ONE ;-) I love your passion of filming farming equipment and the narration you make on almost all of them. TYFS
My dad's rock picker was his 5 kids...
You had the same rock picking crew my dad did lol.
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Why don't they go to no till so they aren't yanking up rocks through the ground?
Even in no till you get stones that work their way to the surface. I have seen rock pickers on no till farms.
Didn't mention the least favorite job, fixing the rock picker!!
Very true.
If I had a dollar for every rock I've picked up in my life I'd be sitting on the deck of my oceanside house in Hawaii right now lol
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Why do the tractors on the planter have so narrow tires?
Cheaper to replace than having pairs of wide ones.
I would say so the tires fit between the rows being planted. Otherwise you would be planting in the wheel tracks which would result in those seeds being deeper in the ground. IMHO
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That's a very interesting answer, not sure if it's true though. I was only quoting what I've heard Jason quote. But perhaps he knows if the wheel spacing are at what you say they could be. They are the latest model tractors so could have been built to that spec.
The narrow tires on the tractor fit between the rows being planted. You don’t want to plant into wheel tracks left by tires. You’d have poor plant emergence if you constantly planted into tire tracks. Due to compaction. Poor/uneven emergence drastically effects yield
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I agree with what you are saying but are the wheels set up at those spacings?
Do you know what the row spacings are?
My least favorite job rock picking, but its a very necessary job.
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When I purchase my farm 8 years ago the nebours laughed at me, said I bought a gravel farm, might as well sell stone for a living!!! Well I'm a No-Till farmer, have only picked handful of stones. I got the last laugh!!!!
No Till is a great method. The very first no-till corn field ever was planted here in Christian County, KY in 1962. Many farms here are no-till.
What do you do with compactation after a wet harvest? Here in western europe there s almost no no till.
Pretty sure it is pronounced Mack Dawn, even though its spelt MacDon. It just sounded like you say Mick Don. Sorry if that sounded rude. Just think saying Mick for Mac, Mc or whichever is seen as being insensitive or some shit like that. Don't want to risk one of them strikes or some crap
How I hate the look of tractors with row crop tires. Can't stand it
You can’t raise corn with out row crop tires.
@@bigtractorpower that I understand, they are usefull with row crops
Why not get a big rock bucket? hmmm
They have rock buckets on skid steers as well. Just need to film them.
I've only seen big rock buckets on like Volvo wheel loaders, i've acully never been seeing a skid steer operate with my own eyes. Exampels of what i see is beeing used in sweden to pick rocks with: norje.se/produkt/stone-fork-n306/?lang=en
norje.se/produkt/ensilagegrep-n391/
A wheel loader would be neat to see. The skid steers are nimble rock pickers and they load them on a pick up with a trailer and move them quickly to the next field.
There is no way you are filming 2018 field work. Mn Millenial Farmer is still snow blowing. Why are you fooling us like this?
Muscle Tractor Fan of course he’s not filming 2018 he’s filming 2019. Minnesotans is one of the last farmers to plant the corn in the US.
Farms are really working right now in Western Kentucky. They are applying fertilizer working ground and planting corn. If the spring footage in this video was not current how was I able to film a 2019 9620R with the new side shields on the hood applying anhydrous ammonia? That tractor is brand new for this model year.
Down south they are able to start field work a lot earlier then we are. I'm just across the boarder from Zach in SD, and it'll be a while before were able to get in the field, we still have snow around up here. Usually around here end of April beginning of May is planting time.
Muscle Tractor Fan.
You need to get out and travel to other states snow is long gone in southern states. Some states down south never get snow or freezing cold weather.
You need to grow up also and quite acting like a brat.
Muscle Tractor Fan I farm in MN and there is still snow on the ground here and I am way south of Zach. Your looking at a good month at least before the big wheels turn here.