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.
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.
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!
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 👍😁👌💪
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.
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
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!!
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.
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...:
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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.😊
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! 🥺
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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
@@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.
Looks like you’re gonna need to build a big nice wash bay with a spotless rinse system so you won’t be spending hours drying and not have to worry about water spot stains ruining the equipment.
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.
You can tell Onyx was irritated you were successful picking that rock. It's clear he doesn't want to fail at anything and gets annoyed by it. That's a great thing!
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.
🤣🙂🙃🙂🤣👍
Should Get A Broom Attachment for the skid steer really clean the floor good
Awesome Watching !! Been Awhile Back!! Love Farming!!
Stone percolation, so fun!
Love Watching!!
No better feeling than 3 generations working on the same farm at the same time, keep up the good work guys🚜
3 generations and Catdog 😋
Glad to see you back sir!
Thank you Becky for leaving it in!!!
So cool to see three generations working the family farm. Thanks.
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.
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
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!
Always love watching your videos
4:09 love it
It’s always cool to see Anna and Didge enjoy their UTV rides. Living their best doggie lives.😊
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 👍😁👌💪
In social our issue is clay. I replaced all soil in my patios to a 4 feet depth, and new clay just creeps up
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 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.
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
In social our issue is clay. I replaced all soil in my patios to a 4 feet depth, and new clay just creeps up
In SoCal our issue is Clay. I replaced all soil in my patios to a 4 feet depth, and new clay just creeps up.
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.
Rock picker is pretty cool. As a person that walked many fields picking rocks. I'm sold.
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!!
Those folks have never had to go in the field and pick them by hand, that’s for sure!😂
Does your arm hurt from lugging the camera around yet?🤣 Congratulations on 1 million subs BTW 💥💥💥
catdog is for certain the most devoted employee on the farm from what I see
You have perked up now that the snow is gone. Happy spring.
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.
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...:
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 ❤️
In social our issue is clay. I replaced all soil in my patios to a 4 feet depth, and new clay just creeps up
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
@MargyMontiertl so who are you? I mean what about you?
@@phillacy5545 I’m Tracy ann, originally from VA but currently living alone here in Battle Creek MI.
@@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.
Thanks Zach for the Video!!👍👍
Darn that was some fast plowing wow
Happy to see good weather, we here in Western Michigan are having a great week for getting farm things done! 🤞
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
Man that’s so cool you and your dad get to work together!! Keep up the fantastic work!!👍🏼👍🏼
Rocks and more rocks.
You hit 1M! Anna I hope you enjoy your first ride
You don’t want to miss while hammering on sweeps
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.
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.
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.
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.
but we love ✨toiling in the hot sun ✨ here
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...
We’ve always just used a “rock bucket “ on the skid steer.
Nice. #!!! 😊😊😊
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!!!
Love to you and the family.
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.😊
Your stuff is great. Thanks Zach
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.
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! 🥺
Hey I'm Southwest Saskatchewan too. Out by Ogema
I wonder how you became the dogs driver lol. It makes me happy seeing you and your son working together.
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.
Thank you for teaching !!! And for the education 😊
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.
In social our issue is clay. I replaced all soil in my patios to a 4 feet depth, and new clay just creeps up
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
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.
Don’t they call them vacuums?
Awesome video Zach. This year lookd way better than last yr. 🚜🚜🚜
Nice ❤❤
This is one of your best educational videos
This Minnesota guy is kinda good at this.
He's not a guy... He's a MFing machine 😂
@@shannonharris i thought he`s an actor :D
You must be talking about Chet Larson
It depends on the day 😂
@@DmasDer Well if he is an actor, he sure better go get his money back😂
I really enjoyed this, thank you!!
I like the way you take care of those dog.😊
Greatings from Denmark, just bought a cap and a hoodie so i can represent in my local farming community :D
Great video Zach. Thank you dad and son.
In social our issue is clay. I replaced all soil in my patios to a 4 feet depth, and new clay just creeps up
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
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!
I was rock picking today..hate it lol
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.
Thank you and I hope Cat Dog gets to ride along someday. Take care and stay safe.
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
Joseph Stalin tried collective farming of thousands of acres and couldn't make it work. You make it work.
Moon rocks 😂lol 😮😮wow zack some beast that boulder 😮😊well done ..he's a top lad jnr too!! 😊
Damn, was hoping for a floor cleaning montage at the end 😜
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.
Great video. Exciting pre-planting time of year.
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
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.
Always love rock picking time!
A sweeper attachment for the skid steer would be awesome.
Yay a completely dry spring video.🎉 we just got 1 or 2 inches of rain today.
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!
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.
Love watching ur channel Zach 😊
Hey Onyx, awesome looking dirtbike you got, bro.
That rock picker is so cool
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.
Can't wait to see the planter in Action.
Love the vids and the wee man is a great worker you must be so proud 👏
Rock, Puppy, Science with a dash of history. MF impresses every time.
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.
I’d love to see you get one of those big mechanical dustpan and brushes.
Hi Zach, Just bought some merch from you. Keep up the great vids.
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.
Yup, then when that wagon was full, you got to have lunch, but not until it was FULL!
Builds character and a strong back
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
Don’t forget….ya got to pick them up again to unload the wagon
Rock picker is a great back saver.
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!!!
Cat Dog loves you , because you are special , ❤️❤️❤️
Enjoyed as always!! Keep her between the rows!!
Zach a rock picking bucket on the loader of that 6175 would really make those big buried rocks easier to get out.
Or a set of forks at the minimum.
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
Good to see you making dirt. We just finished peas this morning here in central NY...
Is there a good market for peas? Just curious I grew up with soybeans and corn
@@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.
That was my 1st experience with rock picker cool machine
Millennial farmer, you guys are my favourite farmers
Same
Put that air conditioning joke on a shirt and I'll buy it!
At 4:12 I think you meant to say every politician in this country lol
Planting is upon us can’t wait for the corn harvest
4:12 my love for this RUclips channel went up 10000000 percent
The sh!t from that spreader has more value than Joe!
Looks like you’re gonna need to build a big nice wash bay with a spotless rinse system so you won’t be spending hours drying and not have to worry about water spot stains ruining the equipment.
It really is something how those rocks force themselves up like that. You'd think they were lighter than air.
It's the fact that they are *heavy* that makes them get pushed up by the freeze-thaw cycle.
Soil erosion plays a factor in rocks showing up. Nobody wants to talk about that.
@@theron1317 My brother’s name was Theron. Unusual. ❤️
Awesome
@@melindaburch4318 awesome
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.
You can tell Onyx was irritated you were successful picking that rock. It's clear he doesn't want to fail at anything and gets annoyed by it. That's a great thing!