Josh I'd say you have a real winner there. Harvesting rocks is one of those thankless jobs but is one crop that you will likely never run out of. This is going to save a LOT of labor on the farm. It's not called the "Stoney Ridge Farm" for nothing. Stay safe brother and God Bless.
I grease the bucket pivots at least every 8 hrs of work. The dirt starts to get in the pins and bushings otherwise. I got smart later on and reassembled the bucket pivots with large o-rings which has done a great job of keeping the dirt out and the grease in
Hey Josh at least you have a shop and tools nearby to fix most of it. We fix problems on our equipment and usually find new problems and we laugh and put it on the list. We bring down tools for what we need that day. I really need to set up a tool box in our container
One day you'll be filling a hopper to feed a crusher/screen. For dirt, base and gravel. Also gabion fences to permanetly use the stone as retaining walls, fence lines, great purchase. Hugh labor and back saver.
Hey Josh I have not been watching ur videos but now I'm BACK....as always ur videos r freaking awesome pls don't stop making them cuz for ME it feels so real....many blessings.....
Everything takes some time to learn, Im sure there is a sweet spot for the arm to swing the rocks in but you wont find it without work.....That thing looks awesome. Nice video.
Great attachment. Watching it operate it seems like something that would be used after the rocks are pushed up in a pile with dirt already. Learning curve for sure. Happy Memorial Day Josh. Stay safe !
Excellent attachment will save your back no end... On the sticky grease point.. if you have a hydraulic hand pump with pressure guage make up an adapter to fit the grease point and pump some hydraulic oil through it.. it will move the hard grease no problem.. iv been using it for many a year to deal with that exact problem and works at lease 80% of the time and saves a load of time to.. Great work on the video.. stay safe 🏴 and rock on.... 😊
Excellent advice!! We do the same if we have a clogged zerk. We have a small 110V portable hydraulic pump that we use for our Porta-Power cylinders and we made a fitting to deal with any clogged grease point. Works great and saves a lot of time. It also helps to use a fire wrench and heat up the zerk/joint along with the grease gun pumping at the same time. Don't use this method if there are any type of seals or internal wipers though. All of our grease guns now have the quick connects on the end. They are a major time saver and we waste a LOT less grease, especially the grease points that have a zerk but your vision is blocked or hard to see while pumping. We bought the brand name quick connect for the first one or two. After that I bought some generic units off of Ebay and so far they work just as well. Josh needs one for sure, Lol.
And to think of all the tons of sandstone Dad and I dug and picked up where the shelves came out in the fields. This machine would make a lot of sand out of that stuff. Nice tool!
you think buying a $3500 implement makes me rich? Look at the money spent on large farms ...$500k combines and a $100k fertilizer bill. I'm most certainly not rich, I just live below my means and it's helped me accomplish what I want in life
Hi josh! Nice adquisición. Keep alert about rocks flying over the bucket right to the operetor. I saw in another youtuber video that they put a protection sheet in front of the windshield. Keep it safe! Watching you from coutry side of argentina. Julio arditi Buenos Aires!
Ha ha - that's a lotta "Ringing the Bell" raking in the rocks....I wonder if the flow to the raker is a little high/fast and jams it that quickly. like you don't have time to adjust the deck to prevent it from jamming. Just a thought. ----Grease fitting project...YUP same stuff happens to me frequently doing stump grinding and land clearing....only way to keep things from breaking is don't use them and even then sometimes stuff breaks just sitting there..s🤣😆🤣😆 the other day my PTO shaft rusted and wouldn't slide...Had to go to "Tractor time with Mike" and get ideas on how to un-stick it..and wa la - he had a video that saved me buncha time wrestling it! Peach be with you Josh, nice video on Memorial day from a true patriot and veteran! Thank you for your service sir 🙏 USA----USA --- USA
Mike has a lot of helpful videos. He’s from S Central Mo - 2-3 hrs SE of my farm in the western Ozarks. On the other end of my 2x yearly 1,000-mile migration.
Thanks Josh! Great score on the equipment for the Skid Steer. With a place called Stoney Ridge that Rock Picker is right at home. Looked like a nice hot humid day for the grease fitting issues to take place.
well...it's dong a great job here too....they make some rock pickers that are specifically designed for crop fields...I'd say this one is pretty universal
A simple suggestion… try raking with the teeth pointed down to gather up small piles, then sweep them into the bucket with that rotating arm. Might save some time.
I think the energy and ambition for all the projects and thinking for himself is inspiring .. Yes Josh has his opinions and he does research and comes up with plans... and as the years come and go he will be wiser and wiser and have more fun doing what he loves... We should celebrate this experience and enjoy his sharing of it... I was raised on an 8 section ranch in Wyoming ... thats 8 square miles... and not for one minute would I disparage Josh for what he has and what he has done... wonderful to follow... such a guy
Hi JOSH! Enormously Happy that You FINALLY got the rock remover gadget! What will you do with all those rocks? Build a wall somewhere? Don't guess that You can sell or give them away?? Is it OK to say Happy MEMORIAL DAY??
Another amazing new tool. Just think of all rocks you will be able to get off the land or use for boarders around anything you think of. Thank you for sharing this. ALL, PLEASE THANK A VETERAN, as they took there bodies and stand the ground so we can sleep easy. This goes out to all active and non-active and for our fallen boys in arm
You should look into the lock n lube Grease gun fitting. You can get them at napa or online of course. It makes greasing a little less of a chore in my opinion
Did you think about using it more like a screed/screener? Scoop everything up, at ground elevation, like a regular bucket, and shake it out. Use the rock flipper more as a clearing device in assisting the shaking out. I may be wrong but good or bad I would try this.
If you will pressure up the grease gun on that grease zerk, leave the grease gun attached and work the implement at that point it will loosenup and accept grease eventually. You might have to pressurize the grease gun several times
that's kinda what I was trying to do, I've bought a tool from Lock-n-lube that's supposed to bust loose grease fittings like this...we'll see how it works!
I'm always impressed by your videos. I'd like to ask, what did you do BEFORE farming to afford starting with this big of a spread, buildings, machines, tools etc?
Not to get political, but reminds me of a comment our Governor said about Ranchers in our area, 'It's mostly cows and Rocks that are in that Red area!" My coworker told me about it ways back I looked it up, sure he did. Be careful hanging out under the raised arm of a skid steer Josh. Woooo!!!!!!!
way back in the day that's the real reason farmers had lots of kids they where called rock pickers that there and a stone boat pulled behind a horse or tractor. Or they ran a orphanage summer camps for wayward kids. Sometime it,s great to remember the past no not really
I do not have no skid steer that you can crawl out under a up un locked boom arms that is why I use safer Deer or New Holland machines where you can lock the boom up from inside the cab way better tech
I am 72 now and I remember back in the day when Milwaukee was the king of the tool pile. They also had NO plastic on them. Now all of the tools are so mass produced in China and damn near ALL plastic, take you pick who makes the best. I will say one thing, when it comes too circular saws, You can't run fast enough to give me a Milwaukee. My choice of power tools, Makita.
This looks like a faster version of a rock bucket geared towards a compact track loader. Honest question though, would this be more efficient compared to the version for a compact/subcompact tractor loader?
We have rock walls in Kansas. To clear the fields. The walls were a certain height and width. The gov. paid money per foot. WAY TO EARN MONEY. HARD TIMES.
Gunk in the grease hole in the pin. The bushing should still be fine. They make a tool that you put penetrating oil into hook up to the grease fitting and hit the end with a hammer and it shoots the gunk out of the grease passage.
When greasing your machine, take off your attachment, that way you dont have to work around it while finding the grease zircs, makes it much easier.
That is why is called the Stoney Ridge Farm?
Very satisfying video. Congrats!
When he's done, he might need to rename the farm!
So glad to know it’s not just me, when doing a project things go wrong or I have to walk back and forth to my shop 100 times
Just when You least expect it, Murphy's Law will be front & Center!
Lots of us share that trait!
Now that’s a back saver! Great addition to the farm.
Josh I'd say you have a real winner there. Harvesting rocks is one of those thankless jobs but is one crop that you will likely never run out of. This is going to save a LOT of labor on the farm. It's not called the "Stoney Ridge Farm" for nothing. Stay safe brother and God Bless.
I grease the bucket pivots at least every 8 hrs of work. The dirt starts to get in the pins and bushings otherwise. I got smart later on and reassembled the bucket pivots with large o-rings which has done a great job of keeping the dirt out and the grease in
Hey Josh at least you have a shop and tools nearby to fix most of it. We fix problems on our equipment and usually find new problems and we laugh and put it on the list. We bring down tools for what we need that day. I really need to set up a tool box in our container
One day you'll be filling a hopper to feed a crusher/screen. For dirt, base and gravel. Also gabion fences to permanetly use the stone as retaining walls, fence lines, great purchase. Hugh labor and back saver.
Hey Josh I have not been watching ur videos but now I'm BACK....as always ur videos r freaking awesome pls don't stop making them cuz for ME it feels so real....many blessings.....
glad you're back.....alot of folks have been missing lately
Everything takes some time to learn, Im sure there is a sweet spot for the arm to swing the rocks in but you wont find it without work.....That thing looks awesome. Nice video.
That rock picker is a game changer for sure.
Looks like a very satisfying project!
Great attachment. Watching it operate it seems like something that would be used after the rocks are pushed up in a pile with dirt already. Learning curve for sure. Happy Memorial Day Josh. Stay safe !
Get yourself the lock n lube coupler. Best $30 ever spent. Also a extention hose. You can be in the loader and run the gun.
Thats a cool machine if i say so myself......Stay safe and see you on the next one
Excellent attachment will save your back no end... On the sticky grease point.. if you have a hydraulic hand pump with pressure guage make up an adapter to fit the grease point and pump some hydraulic oil through it.. it will move the hard grease no problem.. iv been using it for many a year to deal with that exact problem and works at lease 80% of the time and saves a load of time to.. Great work on the video.. stay safe 🏴 and rock on.... 😊
Excellent advice!! We do the same if we have a clogged zerk. We have a small 110V portable hydraulic pump that we use for our Porta-Power cylinders and we made a fitting to deal with any clogged grease point. Works great and saves a lot of time.
It also helps to use a fire wrench and heat up the zerk/joint along with the grease gun pumping at the same time. Don't use this method if there are any type of seals or internal wipers though.
All of our grease guns now have the quick connects on the end. They are a major time saver and we waste a LOT less grease, especially the grease points that have a zerk but your vision is blocked or hard to see while pumping.
We bought the brand name quick connect for the first one or two. After that I bought some generic units off of Ebay and so far they work just as well. Josh needs one for sure, Lol.
Nice acquisition. Back saver!!! The more you use it, the better it’s going to work.
A great tool! learning curve involved. Everythime you use it pays back a bit.
Hay! I'll be down next Tuesday to borrow it! Like you, we got thousands! Great video! Lee
Lock N Lube will change your grease game. Great video.
And to think of all the tons of sandstone Dad and I dug and picked up where the shelves came out in the fields. This machine would make a lot of sand out of that stuff. Nice tool!
Nice piece of equipment I wish I had one not rich like you happy for you. God bless you and your farm
you think buying a $3500 implement makes me rich? Look at the money spent on large farms ...$500k combines and a $100k fertilizer bill. I'm most certainly not rich, I just live below my means and it's helped me accomplish what I want in life
Save up for things and buy them doesn't make one a rich person.
Great all about the farm should get a rock crusher to go with picker so you can make your own gravel
What an amazing machine Josh, I say anything to make your work easier and more efficient is a worthwhile investment. Good Job!😊
I waited until the end to say this; That rocks! Hahaha!
Perfect machine brother!
bhahahha 😂
Good way to get your rocks off
Hi josh! Nice adquisición. Keep alert about rocks flying over the bucket right to the operetor. I saw in another youtuber video that they put a protection sheet in front of the windshield. Keep it safe! Watching you from coutry side of argentina. Julio arditi Buenos Aires!
WOW…Awesome machine great find !
One great investment for ur self....great purchase
Josh, sure it’s rocky that’s why it’s named Stoney Ridge Farm 😂 Nice video! Cheers!
Great tool. Good find!
I feel your pain, my farm is on bedrock so there is a never ending supply of machine breakers
Hey Josh thank you for the video hope you're having a nice happy memorial Day weekend you and your whole family Woo
Ha ha - that's a lotta "Ringing the Bell" raking in the rocks....I wonder if the flow to the raker is a little high/fast and jams it that quickly. like you don't have time to adjust the deck to prevent it from jamming. Just a thought. ----Grease fitting project...YUP same stuff happens to me frequently doing stump grinding and land clearing....only way to keep things from breaking is don't use them and even then sometimes stuff breaks just sitting there..s🤣😆🤣😆 the other day my PTO shaft rusted and wouldn't slide...Had to go to "Tractor time with Mike" and get ideas on how to un-stick it..and wa la - he had a video that saved me buncha time wrestling it!
Peach be with you Josh, nice video on Memorial day from a true patriot and veteran! Thank you for your service sir 🙏 USA----USA --- USA
Mike has a lot of helpful videos. He’s from S Central Mo - 2-3 hrs SE of my farm in the western Ozarks. On the other end of my 2x yearly 1,000-mile migration.
Thanks Josh! Great score on the equipment for the Skid Steer. With a place called Stoney Ridge that Rock Picker is right at home. Looked like a nice hot humid day for the grease fitting issues to take place.
What a handy tool, Josh. That rock picker will pay for itself in no time, my friend!
I agree!!
We had a bumper crop of rocks this year, too. Not anywhere near what you're dealing with.
Thank you for your service pal have a safe awesome day
The rock picker is really intended to be used on tilled fields. It will pick up tons of rocks, leaving the soil behind.
well...it's dong a great job here too....they make some rock pickers that are specifically designed for crop fields...I'd say this one is pretty universal
I feel your pain with random oops and breaking tools. Sometimes it's bad luck and timing but most times it's usually my fault.
Still find it much simpler and way more fun than city life. Least there you fix your problems and not others. You know? The good life!
That looks like a great tool for the job.
A simple suggestion… try raking with the teeth pointed down to gather up small piles, then sweep them into the bucket with that rotating arm. Might save some time.
I think the energy and ambition for all the projects and thinking for himself is inspiring .. Yes Josh has his opinions and he does research and comes up with plans... and as the years come and go he will be wiser and wiser and have more fun doing what he loves... We should celebrate this experience and enjoy his sharing of it... I was raised on an 8 section ranch in Wyoming ... thats 8 square miles... and not for one minute would I disparage Josh for what he has and what he has done... wonderful to follow... such a guy
Use a York rake to get most of the rocks into a line and then use the picker?
Im glad you went that route, you seemed like picking was the only way. Should name it Zach🤪
I used to work for a landscaper who had what's known as a Rock Hound.
Nice back saver great price great video happy memorial day
That rock picker is the bomb
Hi JOSH! Enormously Happy that You FINALLY got the rock remover gadget! What will you do with all those rocks? Build a wall somewhere? Don't guess that You can sell or give them away?? Is it OK to say Happy MEMORIAL DAY??
Lock n Lube makes a pressure relief valve for the grease gun to solve that problem.
Do you have a dump trailer? It would save a great deal of time if used in conjunction with unloading that bucket. Best wishes.
I don't but I have a neighbor bringing over his dump truck
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer A good dump trailer would service you well on many projects around the farm. Best wishes.
That Dewalt grease gun is the best power tool I've ever bought. The amount of time I have saved using that thing has been incredible.
Hey Josh. Happy Memorial Day to you.
Cool, rock n roll🎉
Another amazing new tool. Just think of all rocks you will be able to get off the land or use for boarders around anything you think of. Thank you for sharing this. ALL, PLEASE THANK A VETERAN, as they took there bodies and stand the ground so we can sleep easy. This goes out to all active and non-active and for our fallen boys in arm
Best 3500 bucks ever spent what a awesome attachment
Exactly. How mcuh does a slipped disc go for? Money well spent
Happy Memorial Day!!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸
I need that
Dutch in the house!! Good to hear from ya bro!!
Hope that ROCK REMOVER is quite durable! Might take a while to rename that area STONEY RIDGE! GOOD LUCK!
You should look into the lock n lube Grease gun fitting. You can get them at napa or online of course. It makes greasing a little less of a chore in my opinion
I ordered one yesterday!!
Did you think about using it more like a screed/screener? Scoop everything up, at ground elevation, like a regular bucket, and shake it out. Use the rock flipper more as a clearing device in assisting the shaking out. I may be wrong but good or bad I would try this.
High speed footage is a flashback to Pac-Man. 😄
Man that is nice!!
That is paying for itself quickly.
If you will pressure up the grease gun on that grease zerk, leave the grease gun attached and work the implement at that point it will loosenup and accept grease eventually. You might have to pressurize the grease gun several times
that's kinda what I was trying to do, I've bought a tool from Lock-n-lube that's supposed to bust loose grease fittings like this...we'll see how it works!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I’ve seen those but don’t have one. Let us know if it works
You need a lock n lube for when you grease gun tip gets locked on a fitting
That rock picker works great
Just the tip.. 🤭🤣
(sorry, couldn't resist)
I'm always impressed by your videos. I'd like to ask, what did you do BEFORE farming to afford starting with this big of a spread, buildings, machines, tools etc?
I'm a registered nurse, have ran several businesses...now I create content around the farm for a living
Slicker then Whale Snot!!!!
Rock picker for the Stoney Ridge Farm.
How appropriate.
Nice.
I like it 👍🏻
I wonder if anyone would lend you a STONE BURIER for the big tractor to test on the farm.
Josh, get yourself a Lock-N-Lube and you won’t have stuck on lubricator fittings.
Was hear. Wooooo
That’s a back saver
Probably a grease fitting clogged up unclog your fit and so it'll take Grease
With a name like STONEY Ridge Farm, this probably should have been your 1st purchase, LOL. Good job, nice machine!
pull the pin and take a small drill bit to clean out the greaseway....
Spot on.Had this happen a few times and that's the best way.
Not to get political, but reminds me of a comment our Governor said about Ranchers in our area, 'It's mostly cows and Rocks that are in that Red area!" My coworker told me about it ways back I looked it up, sure he did. Be careful hanging out under the raised arm of a skid steer Josh. Woooo!!!!!!!
You need a Harley rake for your skid loader
way back in the day that's the real reason farmers had lots of kids they where called rock pickers that there and a stone boat pulled behind a horse or tractor. Or they ran a orphanage summer camps for wayward kids. Sometime it,s great to remember the past no not really
yep...I've been picking them by hand for about 9 years here....this thing is a life saver!
Holy Christmas Josh, you sir always breaking something, all this experience, and guess what.....You need more vehicles, more equipment.
things break if ya use them...and if ya don't keep your skid loader bushings lubed ...they clog lol
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Josh, you are "The Man".
I do not have no skid steer that you can crawl out under a up un locked boom arms that is why I use safer Deer or New Holland machines where you can lock the boom up from inside the cab way better tech
I am 72 now and I remember back in the day when Milwaukee was the king of the tool pile. They also had NO plastic on them. Now all of the tools are so mass produced in China and damn near ALL plastic, take you pick who makes the best. I will say one thing, when it comes too circular saws, You can't run fast enough to give me a Milwaukee. My choice of power tools, Makita.
interesting thoughts on power tools for sure
I could use one of those but there goes my mountain.
moremore stuff just what you need ???
You understand that I'm not on a 1/4 acre lot in town right?
Cool tool Josh
This looks like a faster version of a rock bucket geared towards a compact track loader. Honest question though, would this be more efficient compared to the version for a compact/subcompact tractor loader?
oh a skid steer will run circles around a tractor doing dirt work like this for sure
We have rock walls in Kansas. To clear the fields. The walls were a certain height and width. The gov. paid money per foot. WAY TO EARN MONEY. HARD TIMES.
21:57 next time buy the one that attached to the rear of the big T tractor it better
hmm....I'm not so sure my friend....remember this isn't groomed tilled cropland..it's rough as a cob
Josh. You need a farm hand to keep your equipment running
I got 2 of them lol....just like eating an elephant...one bite at a time....down days are maintenance days
Check out lock-n-lube grease gun tips.
How long down the road before you plant grass seed
I'll get some grass on it pretty darn quick once it's cleaned up
Great video looks like a pretty good outfit
Gunk in the grease hole in the pin. The bushing should still be fine. They make a tool that you put penetrating oil into hook up to the grease fitting and hit the end with a hammer and it shoots the gunk out of the grease passage.
Get out that pretty Milwaukee it will blow that grease in there, just pump it tight and let it set
Get you a lock n lube grease coupler easy to take off grease certs