Hey morning Dennis. Rock raking is something I never see in the south. I guess there are lots of rock there. Thanks for showing us what u r doing. The field looks great. A nice hay field. Thanks 🙏
That ar400 is some tough stuff so it should last awhile! Some fixes you just have to adjust a little. I'm sure you'll get it figured out. Thanks again for sharing‼️👍🏻👍🏻
As bothersome as that cable has been,.. I can't help thinking about the farmers back then, when each and every rock had to be moved by hard physical work,..real work! You mentioned " rock rock rock ", and of course I had to think, Rock, Rock, Rock, around my lot today ( Apologies to Bill Haley and His Comets! ) You sure have transformed that field, all the best of good wishes for a good crop this season!
On the New Holland make sure the AC condenser is clear of debris and clean, even dust will insulate it and make it not work, a good hosing off helps, also that tractor has 3 cab air filters which should be checked as they could impact air flow and cooling As for the rock rack just put a simple spring tensioner on the cable to pull it out of the way
I keep the filters and condenser clean. The problem ended up being the thermostat for the evaporator. Got one from AP air fixed it. The compressor would only run for about 5 seconds then it would cut off for about 2 minutes. That's why I thought it was low on 134 but when I hooked up the gages it wasn't low.
Not much for rock farming here, but I have been to places where they pick every year.. all the rock rakes I've seen, have been on an angel, like a side delivery hay rake.. they really seem to work great!! Thanks for the video
Would it be possible to put a spring on the cable somewhere along the upper cable to take up the slack when you let the rake down? Just enough tension to keep the cable tight and out of the way of the tines. Nice piece of machinery.
That rake really kicks up the dirt making a huge dust cloud, at least you're easy to find that way. LOL I like the overall idea the for the quick fix with the lift cable issue. Looks like you just need to tweak the idea some. Thanks for the ride along. Stay safe.
It is difficult to judge from the video how much slack is created in the wire rope when the tool is working but you addition certainly helps. I think it is a bit too long and bumps into the pulley occasionally which is why the clamp is bent. My suggestion to help is clamp a ring about 3-4 diameter to the cable across the back beam not too close the pulley and another to either to the beam or a good way along the cable towards the hydraulic ram. Use some 2 or 3 good long separate lengths of bungee cord to stretch between the two rings under some moderate tension. Too short and they will break when the cable is tight (transport position?) and too slack and the cable will continue to flop around and get caught in the axle working the soil. Use seperate lengths rather than one long length so when one breaks you dont lose all you effect of keeping the cable under tension and straight when the tool is in work. Hope that works!
Looks like your solution mostly worked. I think it was tiny bit too long, so when you let it down the top of it was smacking into that roller on the top causing it to bend. you can see it in the video about 9:20 where its going slack and getting tight while your just driving along. You probably could do a simple loop guide or 2, or maybe a small piece of conduit.
Dennis could you put a 3/8 cable pulley or similar on that cable and anchor it to the box frame so it can’t move across to the rake, or is there a way to attach a tube to the box rail or something and run the cable through it, or like you said over a cliff might be the fix, stay with it mate it’s fixable
have you seen the valentini rock/stone crushers? kindof a neat machine. i live in northeast oklahoma in hill country and we fight rocks everything we try to do.
Can't you add a tensioner on top with a spring pulling on it to take out the slack. Obviously weak enough not to lift the rake but strong enough to keep the cable taut. Too bad that auger that drives the rocks over isn't positioned on an angle to better move the rocks to the one side. On our farm we use a Degelman rake with a Degelman 660 rockpicker . We are very rich with rocks.
So exactly what does that rock rake do with the rocks? Just move them out to the side? So You have to go back and pick them up with another machine? The only thing I have used rakes them and collects them at the same time. Had to empty it a lot. My field is over an old riverbed I think. LOL
Yes it moves them to the right. You keep raking until you have windrows then use the rock picker to pick them up. The video before this one on my channel is the rock picker running.
How about running it through a piece of old hydraulic hose? I'm sure you've got some around. Hopefully that would be stiff enough to keep it where you want it but shouldn't chafe the cable the way the clamps do or a piece of steel pipe might. If it works, I'd be tempted to do it to the horizontal cables along the rear frame just to keep them from flopping quite so much.
Thread the cable through a piece of length of pipe. If necessary use bushings on ends of pipe and secure pipe to side of box frame with a bracket of some sort
On the cross beam, have alot of cable exposed, why not use a light duty spring that pulls in to always keep the spring tight, or couple cable clamps and a tarp strap. Then it will keep your cable tight and out of the way
Or, weld a hinged arm on that cross beam with a pully, 2 down below, make it like a spring arm like what a V-belt on an engine has. That keep it tight, just have to find the right tension.
that cable does jump a lot... you got that 2x3 square tubing which is the frame .. what if you welded that angle iron to that with a bracket or instead of the angle iron you used a 1x1 box tubing and welded a bracket to the frame tube and ran your cable through that... could draw a picture easier than explaining it but .... that box frame weld a 2 inch long spacer bracket sticking out... then to that weld your 1x1 box tubing or round tubing that will hold the cable... then it can run up and down that tubing but the tubing is welded to the frame so its not gonna move... anyway good luck with it.. rocks are not a fun part of the job and they come back again and again
Buy a second cylinder that matches the first and stick them at each end of it. Chuck all the pulleys and cables and run them in float. That or get a nice degelman rock windrower for a few grand.
Boy I wish I had one of those. Picked allot of rock in my day! Looks like you could run that cable thorough a chunk of pipe. Great video!
Hey morning Dennis. Rock raking is something I never see in the south. I guess there are lots of rock there. Thanks for showing us what u r doing. The field looks great. A nice hay field. Thanks 🙏
Some places are fortunate not to have rock, but that place isn't here haha.
DLH Farms : true, I own 80 acres on the Mississippi delta. Rich farm land. Corn at 220 bushel to the acre. Thanks 🙏
Great video Dennis. You got that land looking pretty good. All that hard work will pay off.
Thanks John!
Where I live at, the soil is so bad that we have 2 rocks for every dirt! LOL Nice video.
That's sounds like here haha
The field is looking good!
Thanks
That ar400 is some tough stuff so it should last awhile! Some fixes you just have to adjust a little. I'm sure you'll get it figured out. Thanks again for sharing‼️👍🏻👍🏻
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Great video! Keep em coming!
Thanks Justin!
Thanks for sharing. Take care and stay safe my friend.
As bothersome as that cable has been,.. I can't help thinking about the farmers back then, when each and every rock had to be moved by hard physical work,..real work!
You mentioned " rock rock rock ", and of course I had to think, Rock, Rock, Rock, around my lot today ( Apologies to Bill Haley and His Comets! )
You sure have transformed that field, all the best of good wishes for a good crop this season!
Don't worry I picked up lots of rocks by hand out of this field after I seeded it. Just a lot less than I would have.
@@DLHFarms Yes, and here where I eve we 'grow' rocks too!
On the New Holland make sure the AC condenser is clear of debris and clean, even dust will insulate it and make it not work, a good hosing off helps, also that tractor has 3 cab air filters which should be checked as they could impact air flow and cooling
As for the rock rack just put a simple spring tensioner on the cable to pull it out of the way
I keep the filters and condenser clean. The problem ended up being the thermostat for the evaporator. Got one from AP air fixed it. The compressor would only run for about 5 seconds then it would cut off for about 2 minutes. That's why I thought it was low on 134 but when I hooked up the gages it wasn't low.
Not much for rock farming here, but I have been to places where they pick every year.. all the rock rakes I've seen, have been on an angel, like a side delivery hay rake.. they really seem to work great!!
Thanks for the video
This one need to be in a angle it would work better I think. This one works like an auger and moves stuff to the right but still some angle would help
@@DLHFarms the ones I've seen were also like an auger, but probably 30°angle, or so??
Great video
Would it be possible to put a spring on the cable somewhere along the upper cable to take up the slack when you let the rake down? Just enough tension to keep the cable tight and out of the way of the tines. Nice piece of machinery.
Dang, I wish we would have had a tool like that to remove rocks. Nice one Dennis.
It really helps make a nice field!
You got lights on that tractor keep on rolling.🤣
It was mostly seeded after dark.
Hi Dennis it looks like you have done a very good job on the stones hope not to many come back up after you seed it fingers crossed Graham UK
Thanks Graham!
That rake looks like a very dangerous peice of equipment. Stay safe. An great video. Thankyou
It can be for sure.
You could take some ¼ in thick steel pipe to put the cable through and then tighten it up on the end of the pipe and you should be good to go
Same thing I was thinking. Weld a pipe to the angle iron instead of the 3 clamps.
That rake really kicks up the dirt making a huge dust cloud, at least you're easy to find that way. LOL I like the overall idea the for the quick fix with the lift cable issue. Looks like you just need to tweak the idea some. Thanks for the ride along. Stay safe.
Yeah we came up with a different idea for the cable but have tried it yet.
@@DLHFarms I look forward to seeing what you guys came up with. Take care.
Put a spring on the cable.that keeps tension on it,pull to the side or up in the middle.
Thanks Dale
Wish I had a rock rake for doing the garden
Must have a big garden!
@@DLHFarms it is pretty good size
Might be too much but you could weld a spring to the frame then the other end of the spring to the cable to hold tension while the rake is down.
We actually ended up Welding a guard on the frame
A Little Rock picking, a little aeration. Good thing they are small! I have one in my field that my pickup could sit on!
I bring out the rock hammer on the backhoe for those.
I'd move that pulley farther out towards the edge if it was me, but I like welding. Have a good one.
Haha
Put that cable thru a 1x2 piece of tubing on on that part so the cable can slide in and out but wont kink or tangle
That would probably work but at the time I didn't want to get into taking the cable loose it's a big job and a pain to get back right.
@@DLHFarms you can split pvc tubing on a table saw and use some hose clamps to put it back together.
@@MRI520guy that's true
It looks like that top clamp is bending from when you raise it up it's hitting pulley.
It was all the way up when I put it on and it had about 2 inches of clearance.
DLH Farms , Maybe over uneven ground it comes up higher, might have to focus a camera on it to see what is happening..
Like the video Dennis.
Thanks!
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Could you run the cable through a piece of pipe welded to the frame?
thats what I was thinking too... cable through the pipe and then weld the pipe to the frame
It is difficult to judge from the video how much slack is created in the wire rope when the tool is working but you addition certainly helps. I think it is a bit too long and bumps into the pulley occasionally which is why the clamp is bent.
My suggestion to help is clamp a ring about 3-4 diameter to the cable across the back beam not too close the pulley and another to either to the beam or a good way along the cable towards the hydraulic ram. Use some 2 or 3 good long separate lengths of bungee cord to stretch between the two rings under some moderate tension. Too short and they will break when the cable is tight (transport position?) and too slack and the cable will continue to flop around and get caught in the axle working the soil.
Use seperate lengths rather than one long length so when one breaks you dont lose all you effect of keeping the cable under tension and straight when the tool is in work. Hope that works!
Thanks we already came up with something but haven't field tested it yet I guess we will see what happens.
You just hope and pray that it works
I'd try a high tension spring between the cable and the rock rake to stop all the jumping in your cable...just a suggestion 👍
Thanks!
Looks like your solution mostly worked. I think it was tiny bit too long, so when you let it down the top of it was smacking into that roller on the top causing it to bend. you can see it in the video about 9:20 where its going slack and getting tight while your just driving along. You probably could do a simple loop guide or 2, or maybe a small piece of conduit.
When you let it down the cable gets longer and the angle iron has more room. The bouncing is causing the problem
Dennis could you put a 3/8 cable pulley or similar on that cable and anchor it to the box frame so it can’t move across to the rake, or is there a way to attach a tube to the box rail or something and run the cable through it, or like you said over a cliff might be the fix, stay with it mate it’s fixable
I think we got it fixed now
have you seen the valentini rock/stone crushers? kindof a neat machine. i live in northeast oklahoma in hill country and we fight rocks everything we try to do.
No but sounds interesting!
@@DLHFarms maybe you could get a demo machine to play with see if it works as good as it looks on youtube
Can't you add a tensioner on top with a spring pulling on it to take out the slack. Obviously weak enough not to lift the rake but strong enough to keep the cable taut. Too bad that auger that drives the rocks over isn't positioned on an angle to better move the rocks to the one side. On our farm we use a Degelman rake with a Degelman 660 rockpicker . We are very rich with rocks.
Frame U-bolt off of a big truck? You would have room for cable to move up and down but could limit side to side movement.
Thanks for the idea
So exactly what does that rock rake do with the rocks? Just move them out to the side? So You have to go back and pick them up with another machine? The only thing I have used rakes them and collects them at the same time. Had to empty it a lot. My field is over an old riverbed I think. LOL
Yes it moves them to the right. You keep raking until you have windrows then use the rock picker to pick them up. The video before this one on my channel is the rock picker running.
@@DLHFarms I watched that one also.
How about running it through a piece of old hydraulic hose? I'm sure you've got some around. Hopefully that would be stiff enough to keep it where you want it but shouldn't chafe the cable the way the clamps do or a piece of steel pipe might. If it works, I'd be tempted to do it to the horizontal cables along the rear frame just to keep them from flopping quite so much.
That's actually not a bad idea. We have already came up with something else for now but is it don't work I'll try the hose.
Thread the cable through a piece of length of pipe. If necessary use bushings on ends of pipe and secure pipe to side of box frame with a bracket of some sort
We came up with a guard
@@DLHFarms good deal. Hope to see it in future video.
The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention"
is never more true to a farmer.
Maybe a pulley with a spring could keep the cable pulled back out of the way
What about putting in a fixed side plate?
On the cross beam, have alot of cable exposed, why not use a light duty spring that pulls in to always keep the spring tight, or couple cable clamps and a tarp strap. Then it will keep your cable tight and out of the way
Or, weld a hinged arm on that cross beam with a pully, 2 down below, make it like a spring arm like what a V-belt on an engine has. That keep it tight, just have to find the right tension.
I like your idea.
Do you know if they still make that type of rock rake?
Anderson doesn't they went out of business. Someone else may make one similar.
Pick-up the rocks around the perimeter later. Get the seed in the ground NOW.
This was seeded a month ago
Some folks are into duct tape myself I got bungee cords on everything
Haha
Cool this is for corn or hay?
Hay production
What about a pullie tension for that cable.
I think we have it fixed
Could you just remove a couple of those teeth near the cable? I don't think you'll notice them being gone as far as performance goes.
I'd rather not go that route
Buddy Haley? "Rock Around The Clock"
Bill Haley , Buddy Holley.
Weld a pulley up tight against the frame on the side where you put that piece of angle iron.........
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Try putting a plate between cable and tines (guard) or pcs of pipe over cable just an idea
We did the plate deal
@@DLHFarms thanks for the response never thought you would of read it.thanks again and i like you videos keep em coming
Why not disconnect the cable and run it through a piece of black pipe. That would make it rigid and still allow freedom of movement.
Weld a u bolt to the frame keeping it over like a retainer and cut it to the length it needs to be
Good idea but the frame is to high to do any good
that cable does jump a lot... you got that 2x3 square tubing which is the frame .. what if you welded that angle iron to that with a bracket or instead of the angle iron you used a 1x1 box tubing and welded a bracket to the frame tube and ran your cable through that... could draw a picture easier than explaining it but .... that box frame weld a 2 inch long spacer bracket sticking out... then to that weld your 1x1 box tubing or round tubing that will hold the cable... then it can run up and down that tubing but the tubing is welded to the frame so its not gonna move... anyway good luck with it.. rocks are not a fun part of the job and they come back again and again
Couldn't do all that out in the field. We built a guard later I just needed a bush fix.
@@DLHFarms ah yes i guess... got to do what you can do with what you got to do it with :o)
Cut off the pulley and move it farther out towards the edge of the frame. Should pull cable farther away from rake movement area.
Maybe
Well buddy if you do throw it over a cliff be sure to video that I’d love to see it hahaha see ya Napa mike
Bahaha
Need a water tank and misting spray bar
Haha yeah
I would like to see better walk threw rock equipment
You want a video of the rock equipment?
Too bad you cant make any money selling rocks, i would be rich. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I would be too!
Could not run it through tube
Could but it's a pain to take the cable loose and I didn't want to get into that in the field
Buy a second cylinder that matches the first and stick them at each end of it. Chuck all the pulleys and cables and run them in float.
That or get a nice degelman rock windrower for a few grand.
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