My brothers and I were the rock pickers with a stone boat when we were kids. What a dirty job! We would have loved this picker.

Reminds me of the potatoes digger we had on the farm when I was a kid. There a lot of rocks in that field.

we had a ford 3000 and as a child i loved hitching a ride while it pulled cultivator and birds would follow picking worms on the plowed field, still miss it.

Wow nice I can never get rid of all the rocks they keep coming back like the birds 👍

One of the best rock pickers designs ever created

I love seeing the older equipment being maintained and used.

I've always wanted to build a miniature self-propelled version of this rock-picker, for use in our garden. It's about 5,000 sq. feet, too big for hand-picking the thousands of small rocks. Maybe I should just get busy! Electric might even work.

thanks for sharing what a great machine looks like it works really good

Our county agent in Antrim County, Michigan built the, or at least one of, the original rock pickers in the late 50s. They converted a one row potato digger. Walker was his last name. Very smart cookie.

Looks like a bountiful harvest, wish I had one I have a pretty good crop also.

Shure picked the right day! Not too wet, not too dry.

tip. at 1:06 you can see and hear that the chains on the top of the machine is slipping and skipping the gears now and then, and we can also see that the chains is jumping up/down when it happen. You need to shorten the top chains on both sides on the side of the machine so the chain get more stiff so it cannot skip the gear all the time to avoid wear and tear and damage. Also when chains get work out they often stretch and is x cm longer than when they where new this can also be a factor that increses if a chain slip on the gear or not. Now a days many machines often have an extra smaller gear that are there on the middle of the chain to push it in and tighten it either via a manual setting or via a spring system this help stop the chain from slipping over the gear. ( example on combiners ). I am not familiar with the specific rock picker in the video but on many machines there are typical an adjustment screw system that allow you to stretch the chain so it get a more firm grip so it cannot skip the gear. But els nice video and thanks for making it. ;-)

Love the way that Ford sounds.

Looks like it works pretty good!

This is fantastic mate!!!

An actual clever box of rocks!

amazing! that ole ford made it all the way through the video without breaking down! never happen on the ranch I worked on!

I am in awe!

enjoyed this video thanks !!!!

WOW! Wish they had a mini version of this I could use in my yard. Except no matter how many times I ran over it, I know there's another billion tons just under the surface waiting to pop up!

Good job man, I had never see one in particular as advanced manufacturing in farming industry of (Rock picker) nice still needs to develop it and also company’s can buy it as invention.

That is pretty damn Ingenious engineering

Very clever ,provides an additional crop each year

If I did this on our property there wouldn’t be nothing left

Nice running ford.thats a lota rocks

Good job Man👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Looks like your having a good harvest.

Now if you could fit a crusher to the rear and return the stone as minerals, most crushed stone is very good for plants

That 6000 is clean. My uncle bought one new in 1968 but to many transmissions problems so the dealer took it back and got a 5000 row crop. It’s still in the family...

That looks like it works really awesome. But it would be great if you could give us a play by play of the machine and how it works more up close. Thanks for posting though

The problem is ploughing the fields, especially if the soil is shallow, and the ploughing is deep... But really satisfying to look at

Story I heard is, he's still out there to this very day, one strip at a time. Every time they plant it, more rocks.

Great to see! We are also using a Ford Commander 6000. I like your potato digger/rock picker design; we have a Rock-O-Matic TM12 rake and 546 reel type rock picker but don’t get the dirt separated as well as with the potato digger chain conveyor.

I'm in Maine,so I know what you're up against.I swear the rocks here breed!

Sure is great to see the rocks leave the field. You could never do that by hand.

Holy shit that is working amazingly!!!

Those old Fords are real work horses, Hard to believe they went out of business.

Darn a bumper crop of rocks.

Beautiful 😆

That's awesome!

Looks like you got some farmland in your rockpile.

Good job and you've plenty of stones to clear 👀, ........If you run a spud ridger through the field first, it leaves baulks which are a lot easier on the stone separators and draft tractor

I have never seen something like that...pretty badass.

Love those Tractors.

Excellent machine

Very good job of keeping

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hmm, a couple I-beams, and old car differential and drive shaft and some large-long drive chains. I would add in a couple more chains and put some of those conical teeth they use in those ditch grinders. It might help bust up hard pan and maybe get rocks up the sifter belt better? Maybe a remote hydraulic latch on the rock bin too and make the bottom/ back of it more like a a root/rock bucket to let dirt sift out.

It is great machine. I grow up in time when was hand pick up. Our grand worked hard to make fields what you can see today.

You could get different pitch chains for those potato harvesters, 50mil being common, and then you could lift certain size and leave the rest. Of course the marketing people told the consumer they were baby potatoes and sold them for more. Just sayin' if your going to grow the rocks you should have the market . You can add shaker idlers if you are carrying too much soil. You could hang a length of conveyor belting just above the apron to hold round rocks down and reduce roll back. If there is clearance between the blade and chain you could add one or two hard surfaced angle iron or rubber paddles, depending on soil, to get the stubborn ones to the top.

those "potato miner" style rock pickers seem to be the best for really rocky fields. The "janitor bucket reels" seem to work best when you are gathering up rocks from the last couple years of frost heave, or when you have already put rocks in a windrow. I expect that id you are in places where there was any glacier coverage that you are going to want the potato miner.

I would love to have that rock picker

Pretty cool idea

I need one of those pickers

That apears to be a home made unit!

Amazing.....

That rock picker was made by Dalman Manufacturing, Braham Minnesota

Very rocky field!

Damm thats a lot of rocks, would make a huge difference to your field to have then gone

That rock picker works well …need to find something like that

Nice tractor implement.

Bravo !!

Great commodity to sell or crush and put in a driveway

It is a potatoe harvester in Australia

Is a very good work.

My garden is like that by the time I get all the rocks out I will need a ladder to get down to the garden.

Very interesting harvesting rocks keep up the good work gentleman lovely video adios from Santa Fe nm

Super. 👍

Well it’s taken 67 years before I’ve saw one of these fock pickers. Looks like it does a damn good job. I could have put this to work more than once.

Awesome

We called rock picking a picnic!

I Love it

Nice machine

Thing works good 👍

That might make a hell of a tater picker too !

Cripes, that place used to be a rock farm!

Hi is this machine still available in the markets and how can I get one

With that much rock it might be faster to use a grain-vac to pull the dirt off and then just use a loader to remove the rocks before putting the dirt back.

I like that tractor

Duffy Ag back in NY State needs this on one of his fields. Problem is he is renting it so the guy would say thankee vera much. It breaks his seeding and haying equipment so this thing would do well. The chain needs a bouncyer path up to the bin.

عمل موفق راجعت الفيديو عشرات المرات. الآلة لقمة الاتقان .ياريت تتحرك علينا فيديو جديد عن قرب الآلة ومحتوياتها مشكور . اخوكم من الجزاءر،

There has got to be some one that could use all those rocks. Even a rock crusher could size them for some type construction somewhere... Thumbs Up!

I picked rocks on a farm in North Dakota. I swear it should have been a cash crop.

He is growing. Those rocks. We fertilize ours& they are bigger!!! Pap

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Very nice ❤

Strange thing is next year more stones will appear after plowing.

The war on rocks is never ending.

looks like its made with Farmall HM II sugar beet harvester chains. back in the mid 70s.. a few dozen of those new beet bars welded together made the best barbcue grills.. the chain bars hooked together and the pigtailed ends became the sides in rails. there were bigger machines that used similar chains.. but i have not been out in a beet field in 4 decades.

People pay good money to have those rocks in the gardens.

Exlent simply superb how much cost this mishan

Tom, I love your rock picker. I would like to have a way to get in contact with you and see about buying the plans and materials list to build one for my 316 acres. Great job, great video, great KZfaq Channel. I did like, subscribe, shared and rang the notification bell, that you so very much again.

I didn't know a ford could pull that much weight.

The Round Rock will beat the dirt clods out

Not a bad little auld machine atall

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Little modifications and you could dig potatoes with that

I did not know that you grew rocks there

Zonde van die stenen zijn pure mineralen

works just as good if not better than a modern day rock picker