I imagine Mike used to be exactly the same, but he didn't have a camera. Just buzzing around everywhere asking himself questions, explaining tractor controls to the wind. Great stuff Mike!

We all appreciate the extra effort and huge amount of time invested to bring us and upload your videos; thank you!

I love how he asks questions to himself makes me laugh every time 😂

It’s amazing how Mike can make a 32 minute video of rock picking entertaining. Love the videos.

Only Mike could make picking up rocks so entertaining! Thanks Mike

Watching this video reminded of one of our neighbors in Wyoming. He and his brother were working for a farming family driving rock harvesters. They were working a freshly opened area with hills and valleys and he came upon what he thought was a rock pile. He got out and saw that an area about 100 square meters on top of this higher hill was covered with what looked like tree branches and lava rocks. When he looked closer at them he realized that most of it was indeed fulgurite material from lightning. Being on top of the natural hill out in the middle of nowhere (kinda like Saskatchewan) it was probably many years of lightning strikes. They ended up leaving the "pile" because it was a foot or more deep. The landowner said in the last 100 years of his family in the area these fields had never been cultivated so no telling how many eons lightning had been striking the hills around there. They collected a bunch of the stuff and took it to a local college and they didn't want them... they had plenty of those samples already. That hill became the dumping ground for rock clearing in that area. Thanks Mike!

You are the only guy I know of who needs a tractor capable of getting a speeding ticket on the highway.

Well I never knew they existed. Growing up on our family farm us kids were the rock and stump pickers 😂

Hilarious as always! Can't imagine driving a tractor 75 miles just to pick rocks. Here in the Ozarks where we grow rocks, we still pick them by hand. We normally get around a dump truck load per acre on most fields. That is a good time!

As someone who also farms I can't believe I just watched a rock picking video 🤷‍♂️

You could be a year behind I wouldn't care. I appreciate the extra time and effort you put in. You vids are funny interesting and informative. I totally feel your pain about crappy service.

The dead head joke cracked me up pretty good. I love how everything is an absolutely gong show all at once

Every time I saw a rock hit the bucket I’m like “bingo” or “goteeem” or “eat it”! 😆 I feel like you do the same thing even when the camera ain’t on lol 😆

The dead head jokes cracked me up. Currently dealing with that problem in the US now

It's good to hear the amount of time and effort it takes you to get us these great videos. We very much appreciate the effort, thank you. Please keep them coming.

I also like how you explain everything Mike good job

I know of one farmer who has his kids and wife out there picking the rocks. Just be thankful you got a machine to do it. Great video and God bless you all.

19:05 farming is not about profit, its all about whos land and crop looks the best from the highway so the other farmers get jelly

I still remember the days when dad would send us out to the fields to go pick rocks and put them in the loader bucket. Hard work back then but now are viewed as the golden days.

First video I see from your channel and I gotta say it's a good one. I don't know a lot about farming but I do find it's interesting. Thank you for being so informative about it all!

You never want to pull the loader quick connect all the way out (completely separate). If the connections dry out they will cause a leak on reconnection and will have to be replaced. This is common for Fendt loaders. You got it right Mike! 👍🏻

Mike, you have the gift to make every job enjoyable not only for yourself but for everyone watching. Keep up the great vids. Greets from some Dutch farmers

Only Mike can make a 75 mile tractor drive and “rock picking” interesting. LOL!!

Everyone driving by and seeing your Loopers on would know it's the farmer himself out there

thanks mike for making time to give us these great videos, enjoyed the video thanks

Mike why don't you float equipment like this on a semi to the field

In just 2 more evolutions, there will be a Drone fitted with LiDAR, that will “Map” the whole field to a 600 mm depth, then the Rock Picker will download the Map and the program will determine the most efficient tracks to pick and dump, even call for a Digger for large deep rocks. All without an operator present, they will be in an Air-conditioned office, perhaps 100s of miles away.

We really need a detailled farmtour on all this Mike!

Mike is most definitely underrated in the KZfaq world 😂

Great video, Mike. Appreciate all the time and work you put into these for our enjoyment. Happy Holidays and God Bless.

Getting rocks off and edging?? Buddy your just too much for me, I love it 🤣

Hi Mike... Wow.. A 75 mile tractor drive to the field... I hope you didn't forget your lunch 😳 thank you Mike for the very time consuming work you put into your videos.. WE APPRECIATE YOU❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I grew up across the highway from where you were picking rocks!

Liked the scenery at the 6 minute mark. Got some laughs out of this one!

Man u light up my day everytime u post

Mick is rocking.. 😂

Love the videos as always! Thank you

Wow, you have 3 Degelman rock pickers. I only have one, a Degelman 6000 Signature series and its amazing how much rock it has picked over the years. I have had neighbors want to rent/borrow it but it is only for my property because of the amount of rock I have to deal with. There will be rocks to pick even when I am gone.

Beautiful country ya got there friendo! Love the videos, keep em coming!!!

Mike comes home from work all dirty Ashtyn, “ mike why are you so dirty?” Mike, “ I’ve been out in the field getting my rocks off”

It’s crazy how different the landscape is.

I love your sense of humour your videos are so funny! 😂🤣

Hi from Down Under, I heard you mention Swift Currant, we were there In August 2015, called into the Sale barn to say hello when I told them I was a Cattle Auctioneer from Australia they fell over themselves with hospitality and showed us around, invited my wife and myself to lunch with them, gave me a cap which I still have. Also asked me to call back the next day as a guest Auctioneer, unfortunately we had a schedule to keep and could not. Also we are farmers developing new farming country and recently purchased a Degelman rock picker, it had to come from Canada. Thanks for your channel.

I saw that little picker and started thinking "What is he going to accomplish with that little thing on a farm that size?", but in my area you only have rock free flood plain deposits or an unsorted gravel-cobbles-boulders left from glaciers with a bit of dirt sifted down between. No rock pickers are used on the former, while the latter requires 100% rock picker coverage but the farms are small usually less than a section.

I found the left hand tire on them rockpickers in transport mode can fire some rocks on the rear window on gravel roads

Lol.. I pick rocks exactly the same way with commentary, it’s my favourite job on the farm.. So stress free.

Hi Mike I didn’t realize how much effort goes into uploading your videos. Love and appreciate them and we tune in regularly here in Ireland 🇮🇪 broadband is only marginally better over here 😁😁 keep up the good work . Kieran

Good luck picking your rocks 🪨 Mike

Gonna be honest. I never heard about Saskatchewan until I found this channel LOL

Far more exciting to watch rock picking then do rock picking, still not sure how I got here but I’m watching rock picking.

I think "Professional Rock Picker" would be a pretty cool job 😅

Mike I love watching you you're hilarious especially when you're picking rocks keep up the good work brother God bless you for Christmas

I recall that we had a "stone boat" on the farm. Just a flat timber skid that was dragged behind a tractor. Rocks were picked up by hand or rolled onto the boat, then skidded to a rock pile and off-loaded.

I am so glad that I don't have any rocks on my farm. The worst thing I might encounter out in a field is something put there by someone years ago like an old fence anchor.

It ok Mike as long as you get them out I'm happy

Get this man a silver play button 😂

Just gonna say , mike you left your Wally lights on 🙈, that was such a funny video . Dead head , love it 😂😂😂😂

Oh my goodness. The rocks I picked 50yrs ago. All by hand and tossed onto a stone boat,and hand tossed off to unload. When picking ground that was going to be kidney beans it was picked using a manure pitchfork. Down to about tennis ball size. Used a Farmall F30 idling in low gear . Set it straight hop off and run around picking stone. Oh to be young again.

My first time watching your channel. So interesting. Love the humor. See you next time.

Running that rock picker looks like therapy!

Glad you got your rocks off, the field Mike the field...😳😂😂😂👍👍😎

Thanks for letting us ride along again

“Sorry, I wanted to pick that by myself “. OMG😂....

Only you Mike could make rock picking enjoyable. Thanks.

Definitly the craziest farmer on YT..;-)

Thanks Mike for the videos! Appreciate them!

Great video Mike

Hi Mike im a fan from New Zealand, im a retired marine engineer. If i were you i would carefully check the rocks you gather as you might score a meteor and they are worth lots of cash.

Mike when or however you upload the new videos is cool! I know you’re busy and out in the middle of no where! Us country folk know the internet and phone service struggle!

You need to get a “Rock Drone” with LED Lights so you can map out the rock locations at night while you are resting in your “Easy Boy Recliner” with a 🍷in your hand. 🤣😂 Not Actual drinking while driving since you are “Remotely Cruising” the fields.

I had to laugh, Mike shows how to use the rock picker, which is cool! and after the demo he completely misses the rock that is ½ meter or less in front of the picker and 2 more that are just beside it (@11:40 on video!) I think Mike needs to visit his optometrist soon! hahahaha!

What you should do is put it on a large external drive, you can purchase cases and HDD's for cheap these days, a 4TB drive should be enough, then edit and upload to KZfaq, after that you can schedule the release of the video's as you desire you can do it on a weekly basis where you gather footage, upload, schedule and back to work for a week.

Mercy you guys have a lot of grain bins already I guess putting up some new ones will help not having that many bags in the field which would save you money because 0f animals that cause damage.

Did you guys know every time a Canadian says “sorry” a tombit is born

Mike intended to go edging but ended up getting his rocks off

Mike! you can use a rock picker to harvest the left over crops. I mean it seems like you can put sickle sections on the picker and cut the crop then the reel will kick it into the back. Now you just buy an old 50s trctor with a belt pully and buy an old belt drive thresher and get more money. It will only thresh a little bit better than the ideals.

Mike, I've been waiting for that snow to hit for like two weeks now. The suspense is killing me!

Now i know how the Almanac works!

A rock pile. Nobody had to deal with those anymore. On the beach line of old lake Agassi I used a degelman, but generally the one with a big fork no moving with a chain, just hydraulics, because we had massive rocks. 2 local kids riding dirt bike next to a field my dad had just rented wrecked a dirt bike as a farmer previous had dumped rocks in the ditch, which used to be common practice. For payback the shoved dirt into the crankcase of his brand new Allis Chalmers 440. Thank god even back then warranties covered such things. I never saw the 440 as he traded it as soon as the 8550 came out, but it was a loud animal from what I understand. The 8550 took Stone Age 440 to Bronze Age. I would sure live to farm like you. I got acreage in CRP, 600 if you want in. It just take a lot of capital those first several years. Undoing what the CRP program had us do. Create wetlands by plugging ditches, planting rows of trees. Those wetlands have taken hold pretty good, lots of ditching would have to be done, some of it my dad took out from ranch, so biting countless rubble piles of old trees and lots of rockpiles. But it good land if it rains, which it didn’t in the 80s. And if Jimmy Carter would have sold grain to Russia. Those 2 thing’s bankrupted all the small time farmers, unless the had a big dairy farm or beef cattle or hogs to supplement income. Mostly they failed as well. My dad started in the early to mid 70s when wheat was near $7 a bushel and he could get 60 every year. He quit at just over $3 a bushel when drought was on and got barely 30 maybe 35 bushels. Hats off to farmers, people don’t understand you all gamble a lot every year. There is no way to guarantee that you won’t lose money in any particular year

You can pick your friends, you can pick your rocks, but you can not pick your friend’s rocks...

I remember as a boy...a crew of 10 boys, one tractor with a wagon would scour that field.

You are hairlarious. Love your wordisms. Have used some of them myself.lol. Here are some my wordisms. "That thing myjig" or "That thing mybob" or "Oh for farmers sake" or "OMG". Oh my gosh". Great videos.

I like how Mike Party when he schoots goals with each Stone out there😂hes best💁🏼‍♂️

Pickin rock in my days were done by hand. We had no picker, our picker was myself, the brother and our 3 cousins walking beside the truck

I gave you a like already just because you know, it’s one of your videos and that’s just what you do, but that deadhead reference was hilarious. 😂😂😂

Trudeau IS a dead head. LOL. Awesome video ,as usual. Makes my day.

I really felt you had fun there

"Snow still inbound" lol. If only he knew what was coming!

Imagine if Mike had a Farm Sim map, you’d spend most of your time traveling to the fields lol. Is there any benefit to towing some of this stuff on a trailer so you can go faster and use less hours on these machines? Not even sure the economics of it just curious.

Mike u are really having fun. No lazy moment in rock picking

I'm not too sure. But I think the return oil pipe for the hydraulic motor needs to be a free return into the backend of the tractor. ( the same as hydraulic float) too stop the motor stopping as violent.

75 miles to get to the field? Jeez... I can't even imagine the size you have there.

Looks like fun. You’ve got a few big boys in there. No idea how you can cover thousands of acres.

Growing Stones on your farm is a very revolutionary product sometimes :=)

Hey Mike, with all the driving you do wouldn't it be worth trying a JCB fastrac, you could even trial a low loader trailer

Hi MIke! I'm sure someones mentioned Starlink. Could solve a few download issues when available in your area. Thanks for taking us along!

The landscape looks like the end of the world😂 the nederland is quite different😅

Did I hear you right? 75 miles to the field? WOW! Have you considered a JCB Fastrac? You will love the roadability and speed.

Mike when you said watch road and went silent ,it was like the TV documentry with no commentary of a trip from top of new Zealand to the Bottom condensed into 3hours

Yo Mike , often wonder why u don’t use a low bed transport truck to move machinery long distances rather than driving them ? I love when ask yourself and answer ur questions 😁 . The amount of times I’ve wondered about something and within seconds u ask & answer it 🤗 . Really gives a right old chuckle 😂😂👍🏻🍻