I feel your pain rocks breed more rocks it is a never ending battle

The rock harvest seems great this year.

You got to pick up the little rocks too. That's the ones that grow up to be the big rocks.

8500 acres is like a whole damn county 😭😭

The reason there always seems to be rocks is because you dont take them far enough away. They just follow their pheromone trails back to their home by next season.

Damn, 8500 acres is massive.

This is the kind of job that slowly consumes your soul because it never ends.

We had an 80 acre farm that I thought was too massive to handle. I am... shooketh at the idea of THOUSANDS of acres!

I’m nearly 60, I’ll bet I’ve moved 2-3 million lbs of stone in my lifetime, sometimes a 12 ton truck in 1 day…and still at it!

Rocks reproduce faster in a planted field than bunnies do in the middle of spring

Current method is to fly a drone over the fields, it/they map all the surface rocks by size. You take the tractor with the rock picker attachment to the fields and follow the “shortest path” map it generates to drive around and get them with the rock picker. When full, the picker just dumps at edge of the fields in your existing rock piles. No hands ever need to touch a rock.

Old Man I knew who had made a good life and was able to retire would still take his gator out and pick up rocks like that almost every day. They only had cattle but I guess it was just habit for him and something to do. He was 86, half stooped over, deaf, his hands had those giant knuckles from arthritis and he would STILL go get rocks in the field all by himself. Even though he had the money to have somebody completely cater him he still wanted to work. Born and raised hard working Texas man💪

Rocks heat and cool at a different rate than the soil around them so they will "crawl" to the surface. They make attachments for tractors to pickup rocks.

Did that growing up on our farm. It sucked, and yes never-ending.

You can put a "free rocks" sign on the pile. City folks love rocks in their gardens.

“These rocks keep becoming more *sedimentary than the wheat we grow each year.”*

As a Texan I can confirm, the rocks are in fact never ending…

My grandpa used to call these "Easter Rocks" to get free labor from my brother and I. His story was that the Easter bunny put rocks out for us every year to pick up. And we were more than happy to pick them up.

I just want to give a great BIG SHOUT OUT to ALL of our farmers in America...THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR your hard labors and delicious foods!! God Bless ALL of You!!❤❤❤❤

I remember doing that on our PA farmed. I told my Grandpa, I think the Groundhogs are really Rockhogs. He laughed really hard. I miss him. Thanks for bringing back great memories with him. God Bless

We say in Massachusetts here that they’re our winter crop. We build walls out of them.

Rock pickin. Oh my. My childhood in North Idaho If if falls through a pitchfork... It stays.

So lucky to own so much land. What a blessing. U could help so many people that have nothing.

Thank you for your hard work God bless you in Jesus name Amen

Only 8 acres and a wheelbarrow. I swear they come from the center of the earth!

Had to do this every year as a kid. Good times ❤

You could also get a stone picker that could be pulled by a tractor. That would make that job a whole lot easier

This was a summer job for us kids ,while growing up in potato country,of Northern Maine. And Picking Mustard.

My father-in-law did that back in the late 1930’s and 1940’s. The rock walls they made still stand in Central Texas.

I thought only we grew them in Kansas. Guess they grow that abundantly everywhere.

Yes buddy I am pretty sure every farmer does this

Normal annual task here in Michigan too

It's like the rock gnome keeps putting more out there for you, it's never ending!

Bro this was my childhood

Uncle was right ! John did farm rocks 😂😂

Flashbacks of my childhood... we only had 5 acres of that and hand planting, weeding, fertilize and troy built tilling

Where I am from we pull up petrified wood that was burried since early 1800s. Frost pushes it up to the surface

Bro needs a big offroad skateboard to get towed around 😂

Hey I needed place where i could play football. Now I found it 😂

I ran the mechanical rock picker up and down a field that was littered with 1’ diameter rocks. I dumped the rocks neatly in a pile at the edge of a swamp. At the end of the day they asked “did you actually get any rocks picked up”. I went back often as those rocks popped up faster than onions.

We did a lot of rock picking years ago. I understand the pain.

You ain't seen rocks like we got in Connecticut! We got rocks!

Try that here in Southern Missouri, you can pick that little bed full without moving and without having to move your feet either. You plow a field then pick rock for days in a little 5 acre field.

Farmers are the real heros this Nation needs 🥰

You know rocks float, don't you? Especially in Texas, where everything is bigger.

Love it when people think the rocks are climbing up when it’s actually the soil going away. Love erosion yay !

We use to set the tractor straight in low gear running by itself with no driver while we all walked in front of it and picked rocks throwing them in the bucket

Ah yes, the annual harvesting of melon boulders. Looks like a good crop this year.

😂😂😂 Cam Tucker used to do this in Missouri 😂😂😂

I would love to visit your farm one day hopefully.

America really got family farms bigger than whole countries

Wait wait wait every year??? How the rocks get back 🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐

The never ending struggle of farmers.

We built dry stone walls with the rocks in Yorkshire

Honestly to me that looks like fun! It definitely keeps you strong and healthier than most people get after years of sitting behind a computer.

I spent countless hours picking up rocks on my grand patents and family's farms. It's good character building work

In Denmark every farmer pick rocks up by hand. It's normal here

What a blessing

Eight THOUSAND five hundred acre FAMILY FARM? Congratulations on keeping it! That's dedication, EXCRUCIATINGLY HARD work, family loyalty, and determination!That's beautiful! 🙏❤️

There were so many at my horse barn I started bringing them suckers home and using them for landscaping they look really awesome in a Texas yard LOL

Yup!!! Same here in Queensland 🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾

I spent many hours of my childhood doing this same thing. We didn’t have a fancy side by side though. We had a stick shift ford. 7-8 years old I would put it in granny gear and then get out and walk beside the truck tossing rocks in the bed. All for .25 cents an hour. Don’t get me started on chopping cotton.

Only a can am would last long enough to get the job done. I’m saying this as a former dealer of both brands. If a can am defender tears up, you did something stupid! If a Ranger tears up you simply looked at it wrong.

Rocking picking! We did that on the farm in Missouri!

We do that at least once a year too, (sometimes twice) we also pick up smaller rocks, it takes so long!

Wish I grew up in a family that had even an acre of land. Enjoy that freedom and god bless you brothas

My grandfather had to do this while walking uphill to and from school every day.

8500 acre farm.... my dream dude. Kids my age now a days want a mansion without working for it and earning it. If I could buy even 1000 acres of land and build myself a little house on the land. Not the biggest, but to have the nicest shit inside the home. Have plenty of space for my dogs to run to park and work on my businesses heavy equipment. My garages would ge gigger than my home. As a mellenial, most of us don't work. My grandfather showed me what hard work does for someone what taking pride in your work means what it feels like to work so hard to can barly walk back to the truck. The satisfaction of seeing the transformation of someone's home its satisfying so satisfying. I get to help my community and help older couples keep there independent lifestyles without doing all the housenwork and repairs and I take pride in my business and with more hard work dedication discipline and work ethic I'll only grow and hopefully own my 8500 acres one day. God bless everyone and be the best you that you can be everyday

Picking stones and rocks was a hobby of my grandpa. We used a backhoe and loader tractor. Every spring. Grandpa loved thunderstorms. His thinking was the thunder "vibrated the stones to the surface and hard rain washed them clean to make them easier to spot".

In Europe they use the rocks to build walls around the fields. Looks great and created partitions and clears the land.

Dude I had to do that on the ranch I work on and let me tell you it's 11500 acres in west Texas and the rocks are just the same. Keep on ranchin

Be thankful you have a family farm. Wish I had something like that I could be proud of.

My son needs to spend a few summers with your family. God bless you and your family.

We do the same thing, i swear it rains rocks 😂

Here in Minnesota, rocks are our second crop pick them in the spring, fall is for the grain crop lol 😂

That was me about a month ago, right before we planted the last field of the season.😂

I remember doing for a friend on his 800 acres. He did actually sell some to landscaping contractors.

Lmaoo the guy that commented rocks breed more rocks 😂

I feel you man it’s always a chore

It’s a never ending battle…I feel ya bro.

Farmers are really unsung heroes.

Ha! I used to pick rocks as a kid every summer for money. Loved it! Insane how many rocks there were.

Building a rock house for the rattlesnakes ⚡

this is me and my cousins' childhhod. got 10 bucks a day lol

We do the same on our farm. Last year our side by side’s front end was nearly off the ground!

This was my father’s favorite project to give us kids. I feel your pain.

What kind of seeds do you buy to grow rocks?

Loved that job as a kid. Good money and kept fit

Back in my day we had people picking up rock for us

I've done that too. so many times. Our farm was not that big and we used a tractor. :)

Thank you for the explanation of how picking up rocks works I was very confused on the interaction between the rocks and your hands

Now that's what I call rock and roll.

Missouri grows rocks every time it rains

We do it like that too!!

Yes, reminds me of the good ol' days growing up on a farm outside Hico. Never worked harder building 5 strand barb wire fence and rock picking only we used a truck.

Mate you could build some cool as stone walls around farm where you need them.

It’s a hard life picking stones and pulling teets, but it sure beats fighting dudes with treasure trails.

Wow I remember doing this after plowing, we would ride in the tractor bucket field after field before planting beans great memories and taught us how to work

Farmer used to think rocks grow like trees because there where always more the next year no matter how many they removed lol.

The real fun fields are the ones where you pick load after load & finally see no more rocks. Then you work the field once & end up having to pick a couple of more loads before you plant.