How our Rock Picker Works
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Using our Degelman 7200 Rock Picker to get the rocks off the field before we continue planting. Once again light is an issue.
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Folks always talk about how charming the rock walls here in New England are, until they stop and think about why those rocks are all lined up at the edges of fields and realize what back breaking work it must have been back then.
That big one you showed us is no joke!
R. James Scheffler III, a farmer near me in Western New York has a rock that is at least 10 foot long.
Dutch walls. They killed two birds with many stones. Built a property wall, and cleared the farm!
Yup. Every rock in the loooong pretty wall was some guy's "pain in the ass" 100+ years ago.
@@Mode-Selektor hell, at least one in the wall along my MILs field was my "pain in the ass" only a month or so ago. :D
Amazing how much fields grow rocks.
Rocks that are naturally buried deep below the field are slowly pushed to the surface by freeze--thaw annual cycles.
Some very large rocks (boulders) are too big to handle by machines, are re- buried, by using an excavator to dig a deep hole next to the boulder , and rolling it into the hole and covering over with dirt.
Or how much top soil erosion ocures
Its more that retard agriculture as shown here erodes so much soil each year that you´ll continuously lower your field into more rocks.
Ae Norist if ignorance is bliss, you must be really happy
@@aenorist2431 frost and tilling of the field is to blame not erosion... water collects under and around rocks and when it freezes it expands and comes closer to the surface.... then the tilling of the field flips and fully exposes them...
The right tool for the job....hate to say how many acres I’ve hand picked as a kid....thanks
Same here. Showed my Grandpa a video of guys using a mechanical rock picker to see what he thought. Him and I spent countless hours chucking rocks. When I showed him the video he said, “bunch of lazy bastards if you ask me.” Love my Grandpa
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I remember ridding around on a truck hood picking rock's with my grandpa
Your channel is the best kept secret on RUclips. Your videos are well put together, they have good music, the narrating is spot on and you rarely complain about the daily struggles you face, and for the viewers that have never stepped foot on a farm, you do a great job educating them. Your family seem real down to earth and it's easy to see that your kids look up to you. Keep up the good work!
Dale thanks Dale!! That's a great compliment!
When i was younger i was the rock picker..😂
We´ve all been rock pickers :D
Builds character.
Same here, apparently I missed a few...
Builds the strong back you need for this job.
Yup. Dad driving the tractor, me on the stone boat
Grew up in Duluth, been living in the Twin Cities since 1981, and this is the first time I have seen a rock picker. Found your channel by watching Stoney Ridge Farmer. Thanks for sharing.
Back in the late 50's and early 60's my brother and I were the rock pickers. We had a 16 foot wooden drag that we rode on and piled the rocks in the center. Unloaded when the Farmall H started loading down in 4th gear. We then used these rocks to fill in the ruts in the lane in early spring breaking them down with a stone cracking hammer. One of the many chores/jobs our Dad kept us busy on the farm growing up. Some of your rocks look like boulders!
I really enjoy watching this I have realized these guys have got to know lots of information these days. My grand father farmed around Rochester MN in a little town called Good Hue. Rest In Peace Edwin Oreilly.
It's amazing how big of rocks those pickers can grab
I don't know about anyone else but i could watch this machine for hours. 👍👍👍
See, now I understand this. I worked for a farm where we had a rock picking crew. 5 guys, a front loader or skid steer, and we would go pick rocks. Worked quite effectively. THIS on the other hand, is slow, tedious, but entirely capable of being picked by one person. Granted it isn't as quick or efficient as a 5 man crew, but, if you don't have a ton of people standing around who need something to do and there is only you to clear the rocks, this works quite well!
We had rain issues also. Our last corn field had been so wet & just when we were going to plant what we could it rained on it again. No rain on any other field just that one so we decided to forget planting corn on it & hope it will dry out for beans. We had our rock picker going too. He is 19 years old. Does a great job.
The Flintstones Cartoon comes to mind after watching this video. Love your channel. Thank God for the American Farmer !!!
We planted around the rocks and after harvest we planted flags at the rocks so we would remember where they were growing (lol) We would have loved rock picker! Great idea!
Growing up, we kids were the "rock picker". Luckily, we did not have too many rocks to pick. When I planted corn, my tractor had a loader/bucket on which I would throw any bigger rocks into. When we seeded, we did a closer look and used a flat baling rack. Again, usually not too many. But we did rent some land which we could pick rocks for weeks on some of those hills. Once hill, my sisters, mom, aunt & cousins (heck they wanted to do it) picked 10 wagon loads. I was plowing, disking & planting corn the whole time.
thr8061 sounds to me like you were "supervising"!
You know how it is ... as soon as you have a couple of days of good weather, all hands on deck! Dad was milking, hauling manure and other stuff around the 2 farms. I would be getting up before school to plow/disk/drag a field and then come home and finish up or plant until done each night. Weekends were fieldwork from sunrise until done (could be after midnight). Mom & sisters pitched in where ever / when ever they could.
Over machined on the pickup, we had one with the samed lay out but the pickup was a 5 foot blade instead of a reel with a chain get that when raised it dropped the rocks into the hopper. Worked great.and didn't have to stop to pick the rocks
That is probably one of the most satisfying machine to watch.
Are you sure your not a rock farmer?
Or are you a farmer that rock's?
Brian Hubbard it depends on the day, sometimes I'm both.
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Wow how nice... I have spent 50 years picking them up and throwing them in the bucket tractor...
Ill take some of that rain... The ground here is dry and hard as a brick... Been getting a lot of rain all around me but just little sprinkles on this farm
Here in Canada we just run the reel the entire time we’re in the field. Works great! Great video! Hopefully you can get some planting done. Cheers from Saskatchewan!
raffy1ca what area of Saskatchewan?
Was going to say the same thing. Never stop moving either. From Northern sask.
My wife's Uncle invented the rock picker in Canada called the Rock-o-Matic in a small town Vonda, CAN in 1961. That is in the province of Saskatchewan. Eventually the company change the name to Highline Manufacturing. I have met the family and visited the manufacturing plant. All her Uncles were farmers but incredibly smart from a engineering stand point and got into inventing farm equipment. I know her Uncle has retired now from the business but it's a real neat history to hear and see when we go up to Saskatoon to meet up with the family and still see some of their equipment out in the fields.
Robert G. Wow that's cool! There are still a lot of old rock o matics around!
I spent a lot of hours in my teen years picking rock by hand. This looks more appealing.
I have a 0.606 acre residentail lot, mostly with grass and some trees. I haven’t had a rock in 27 years, yet I want this rock picker. 👍
"Just back in into your local Rick pile" 😂😂 Oh man what memories
Great video and great machine. I can see this rock picking machine being used in vineyards and orchards in the Central San Joaquin Valley along the Kings River where there are lots of rounded river rocks that dot the fields.
Sure beats doing it by hand when I was young with my dad just driving the wagon 😂
Damn what a machine! Sure beats the hell out of picking up rocks by hand or beating a machine to hell. Cool video and thanks for sharing
The farm I grew u on was was in hill country of the ouachita of Arkansas. If we cleared the rocks erosion happened much faster. The boulder sized ones we moved everything else we just worked around. It was hell of a lot cheaper than to haul in new to soil.
Guess my phone is listening again. My dad & I were just talking about getting a rock picker for next year for the field. And today this is on my TY recommended videos. Great video 👍🏼
We have a Degelman 6000 Signature and there is not much it can't pick up, even partly buried. We try to always go through and rip up the dirt first to make it easier for the rockpicker. Its nice because it is hydraulic drive and dump. Hard to beat.
I remember spending hours as a kid walking the field. Picking up the rocks by hand and throwing them onto a flat trailer. Very few instances did we get one where we could use the skid loader
Yeah great implement to have
Wish we did. Clearing fields that have been fallow for half a century (old dairy land) for a vineyard. We clear and burn leaving sticks and lots of rock all over the field but mostly in the burn piles. Most sticks and rocks we hand pick and or take to windrows then pick up there.
Most of the stone we use for walls or repairing older stone dry stack walls.
I originally thought you were talking about some small rocks. But man those are some fairly large rocks. Nice machine for sure...
Love seeing what other farmers around the world are doing. We are also currently planting in WA (Western Australia) keep the videos coming
Brad Ashton cook! What are you planting there?
Various crops. Canola, barley, beans, lupins, peas. I must say, you could just post videos of your soil and I'd still watch it. Also love the planter
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Only just started today
Also look up rocks gone reefanator
I now want a rock picker and I don't even have rocks
Like Us folk wanting a Tractor, but not living on a Farm? 🙄😂
Its nice to how different the hydraulic version of the Degelmann works. On the farm i have been working on here in north dakota, My boss has the wheel powered version, where the reel is driven by the right wheel on the rock picker. Most of the times where i can see that the rocks is laying on top of the ground, then i dont slow down, thats because i want to get the rocks in the back of the bucket. But that one doesnt work as good in wet or really soft ground, because the wheel would start dragging. I have managed to get rocks out of the ground, that i couldnt get in the bucket because of the size.
Yall have a killer life brother. Miss farmin & heavy machines.
I started my rock picking career when I was eight. Looking back it was fun. Picking up rocks and throwing them in a truck.
rock picking, one of the most satisfying jobs on a farm 😎
Please send rain to us in the central valley of California. 5 years of drought, a normal year (12" is normal for us), then another dry year (only 8"). Also, we did our rock picking with buckets. We walked a 40 acre field behind a little ford or ferguson with a platform that dumped. Most rocks were between marble and baseball size. Some were football to basketball size. I was in junior high, I'm almost 51 now. We filled many buckets and dumped many loads.
A lot better than the old days with a couple five time forks, a loader tractor, and a dump cart
It's amazing how the rocks seem to show up from nowhere each year. Me and my siblings had the joy of doin it by hand.
this thing is not what I expected, i figured it would be more like a sifter, this is the first one I have ever seen in operation, thanks for the education.
I don’t get it. How does the auto steer know where the rocks are?
Shelby1 Kenobee seriously? Nah you gotta be trolling hahah
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With the same technology Tesla uses to see cars on the road 😂
You locate each rock by satellite, enter it into the GPS, then program the tractor to program the picker to get the rock.....Sometimes you have to use a radar satellite to get the rocks that are deeper...
Nah, u just get the ones you see, then pick up the rest when the planter finds them.
Holy shit, I didn't know that there are machines that pick rocks. Ingenious, I like it.
About how many rocks do your fields yield in a season? Mine are always small and I get about 90 bushels. What fertilizer are you using? Where do you get your seeds? Any other tips you can give me? I run a small rock farming operation and got a big order for next year.
If you have a big enough field and wait a long time, a rock will fall down from the sky.
Wow! theres a machine for everything. Tractors are like grown up toys! so many accesories
My mom always said the difference between men and boys is the price of their toys
Degelman produces quality machines. Havent used their rock picker. Mine is the armstrong model. Great model it works if you want it to work or not
Just came across this video. Have to say thank you for making this. Where I am from In Saskatchewan, most farmers have wheel-type rock pickers like this. Some have also have fork-type rock pickers too as they are handy for getting the bigger rocks ( easy chair size and such) off the field. The larger rock you had there my Father used to call " Pebbles"
You know, for every rock picked, 2 more appear...
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so true, so annoying
Who knew rock pickin' could be so fun.
We just bought a Degelmen identical to yours last winter. We were moving stones in it (we were loading it with a skidsteer) and I bent both cylinders first day out we locked the teeth going up and down and dumping with that locked bent both of them. We run ours on a 7210r and have had great luck
Getting racing season here in the south. About time for a Racing video
I haven’t seen any rock that size in our volcanic soil, our rock picker is like tine rake that draws rocks to a turn table. Then moves onto auger metal belt into 12t box trailer I wish I could a post pick of it. We used NH TM125 pull rock picker but once starts load up, especially up hill the TM125 start struggle but Magnum 215 would be no problem, dump our rocks in waterway so soil doesn’t wash away. Great vid👍
Those darn rocks keep growing.
My first days picking rocks was throwing them on a stone boat and unloading them the same
Lol. Btw send some of your rain to Saskatchewan! Hasn't rained all spring and is hot and windy every day. Hope canola will germinate!
379insk we're actually a lot dryer than much of MN. Good luck with the canola!!
MN Millennial Farmer ......Am seeding yellow peas today. Ground is hard and dry. RR Canola IS next . Soybeans will go in last. Have a great day!
Yup. We used a stone boat until the rock picker finally showed up on the farm one day.
The non farmer is not going to understand the purpose of rock picking. You should start off you next video explaining the need for a clear smooth seed bed and also how rocks ruin expensive machinery. Your explanation of the machine and it's operation was great, but not all of your audience understands why you ho out and do what you do, when you do it. The beginning explanations will help the non-farmer.
As a team member of a Deere dealer in the south east I really enjoy your videos. A few of my techs and I always talk about about your new post the following morning at work.
I'm pretty sure thats what we grew! Least that's what our farm was called. Royston Rock Farm.
We actually ended up converting an old potato digger into a rock picker. It worked, until the dirt blew away revealing larger rocks underneath.
That was one big rock it picked up.slick
I think all young people should pick rocks for a summer! I did for at least 4-spring times we used to plant with a loader tractor and throw them in before they took out my fertilizer discs! worked okay lost time though!
You need a t-shirt that says something to the accord of "Plant that corn nice and deep-like". Instant seller!!!
Jordan Roberts that's a good idea!
I'm sure Becky would love it.
"Plant that seed nice and deep-like" would be better
Agreed. Much better. Reaches a broader audience.
Deep Tillin!
This entire video was extremely satisfying
My Grand dad farmed in northern Delaware long ago and he had to deal with very large granite boulders weighing hundreds of pounds. Instead of trying to move them, he would start a fire on top of them to get them really hot and he would throw a bucket of water onto them which would cause them to crack and blow into pieces.
Excellent That one was pretty damn big! Thanks for showing
I've seen a cylindrical rock picker, but I don't think it would work in a wet field like that. And some of those you cleared were pretty darn big.
Growing up, I was the rock-picker. Iif something was beyond my 8-year-old self's capabilities, my father would get his crawler running and go dig the rock (or boulder, in some cases!) out with that!
I think I like your machine better. :)
Very cool how that machine works. Great music selection that really fit the job. Nice job on the video too. Thanks for the demo.
That machine is great. I have picked up rocks by hand. I have seen the old horse drawn rock lifters in use they were great for the time.
I have a neighbor that still uses a horse drawn picker on a 12 acre patch and now's rakes and bales 25 acres of hay and a little over 70 acres of straw each year just to keep his draft horses in practice for the competitions he goes to he saved me and all my kids gas in our Ford 8n's and Farmall M,super M and H's by plowing discing and springtoothing our gardens mine's the smallest at 2.5 acres after a run over with the tiller it seems like the best seedbeds we've had in years I guess we'll see come time to load the trucks and trailers for the farmers markets
Well that looks like a slow and arduous task. YAY!
You millennials have it easy. LOL a five gallon bucket and my two feet walked out field a couple times a year. New tech is awesome to see how equipment continues to change. Enjoying the videos and a new subscriber. Keep it up
Most of those rocks wouldn't fit in a 5 gallon bucket
Love the videos! You're becoming my favorite farming you tuber
Where the motor is mounted on the rock picker is sketchy, that is a good way to break it without a shield.
Do you ever crush the rocks to as an amendment to the soil? Either for drainage or minerals?
hope you have a great day
Peter Memmelaar same to you!
Did you ever get to chunk a newly cleared 640? Oh what fun. Sweet gum, oaks, pine chunks, stumps at near ground sheared by the D9 with v-blade, gumbo hard ground, wetted and building a bowling ball size slug on your boots, step into a hole and the entire boot getting stucked right off your foot.
Joy... this after the wind row fires, started by "lightning strikes"
we had a rock that was poking out of the ground. So we dug around it to dig it up. It was to big for us to handle. We called a guy with a back hoe to come out. He started digging and it was about 15 feet wide by 7 feet wide and about 12 feet deep. He dug a deeper whole next to it and shoved it in. It was worked its way back up after 30 years.
Get the robo picker it hooks to tye front of a skidloader it has a basket in the front u dip the basket underground pick the rock up with the basket then the basket rotates to allow the dirt to siphon theough the basket leaving u with just the rock
That explains why the Degelman pickers are offset: they're meant for spot picking. In Farming Simulator you get a whole bunch of rocks evenly spaced over the entire field. so it's easier to go in rows, but it requires five to seven-point turns to turn that machine around.
I thought this was a cute little contraption until he stood next to it 😳dems some big rocks!! Makes sense to have this piece of equipment.
Yep, great way to get rocks. We'd spend hours picking up Michigan rocks. We'd throw em in a pile. Later, my dad sold our farms and those people sold all the rocks. Haaaa haaaa. Wish ya the best. Teagards...
We started on one...grew from 4 ft on top. Then it went from golf cart to Toyota Corolla in size. By then the excavator knew it couldn't move it...luckily a d8k was a mile away...sigh
Love this machine. Sure beats stone boat and hand picking!
Attention, viewers. Something you'll NEVER hear Millennial Farmer say: "Well, there's just NOTHING to do today. Guess I'll just kick back and relax..." 😎 Seriously, though, sorry about the weather, Zach. I do hope you catch a break soon and you and your fellow farmers get your crops in the ground. Thanks for a cool video with the rock picker and your favorite pile of rocks! Lol
David Quintanilla lol!! Thanks!
A bobcat with a rock bucket work really well
"This cute little guy" ... haha, priceless!
Saves a LOT of sore backs!
Glad we had a rock picker and didn’t have to go to the fields when we had rocks
Remember walking the fields in Norther Maine picking rocks and tossing them in the trailer as a kid. Those potato fields grow rocks every year.
Where was this machine when I was younger! I was the rock picker back in the day
That is a neat looking machine and it does a great job of collecting the rocks and we could use something like that down here since there are many rocks in our area.
Have you ever asked why you need to pickup rocks and where they come from? You should listen to a Gabe brown video on how he does things.
I second the comment, I was the rock picker never had no fancy machine like that!!!👍👍 pretty slick💪
Man, almost seems faster doing it by hand, lol! But those mini bolder would wear your back out pretty fast! How deep are you working the ground? Guess we are pretty lucky most ours,are softball size!
WTFarm Girl we dont bother with softball size rocks!! And I can't pick by hand because I have fancy, expensive finger nails. We are tilling at around 4" right now, but about 7-8" in the fall, that's what rolls a lot of them out.
oooh, did you take my suggestion of Ferarri Pink?? we tilled 3ft and only pulled out a few rocks (and a disk over 25 years old!) 4" with that size of rocks. . . youch!
Zachs def NOT a Ferrari pink. Gaga Green would work though
WTFarm Girl yeah I wore a buyback out that didn't help picking rocks all by by hand carrying them back to the truck or meet out all for a rock garden🤗🐝
what they meant to say is they can't because they don't know how to operate heavy machinery... kinda sad in a way but I thank them for what they do.
Oh my! When I was a kid on the farm, we would find a stone in the field a couple of times each year. All were golfball size, or less. When we would see one, we either put them in the tool box, or in our pocket, then put them on the driveway when we got home. A stone sighting was pretty rare. We had no idea how clean our fields were, and laughed at some nearby farmers near the rivers who had a few stones in their fields. Rock picker, ....? No, nobody had one.
I laughed at this comment!! We almost never bother with anything football size or less!
Holy smokes, that picker grabs some good sized stones
When I was a kid I would walk my uncles field and manually carry them out of the field I must have moved over a ton of rocks of of a 60 acre field in one summer got tired of fixing discs
nice vid...I can remember in the 60's we picked up the rocks with a flatbed wagon! this MUCH better LOL
The rain here in Northeast ohio was an issue this spring, very very wet, most farmers in our are just got planting going in the last week.