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  • @idahotim4083
    @idahotim4083 ปีที่แล้ว +10386

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

    • @familyfarmlife
      @familyfarmlife  ปีที่แล้ว +532

      Ya…. I wish they’d just stop😂

    • @micahsattler1268
      @micahsattler1268 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@familyfarmlife what part of Texas?

    • @Bowfinger6383
      @Bowfinger6383 ปีที่แล้ว +263

      @@micahsattler1268 the rocky part, obviously 😜

    • @sina892
      @sina892 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      ​@@Bowfinger6383 🤭

    • @mcduck5
      @mcduck5 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      Thats because you are loosing soil to erosion, if you sort that the rocks will stop

  • @everestfalls
    @everestfalls ปีที่แล้ว +2341

    The rock harvest seems great this year.

    • @MagnakayViolet
      @MagnakayViolet ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The rock farm dream in reality 😂

    • @PinkPoo
      @PinkPoo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yum

    • @Mrmarcus501
      @Mrmarcus501 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂

    • @DataLog
      @DataLog ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn't know you could grow rocks.

    • @AgzagaSocial
      @AgzagaSocial 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      LOL

  • @CashisKingtrucking
    @CashisKingtrucking ปีที่แล้ว +1198

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

    • @murkyturkey5238
      @murkyturkey5238 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Exactly 😂

    • @cowmann3555
      @cowmann3555 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      make sure to cut it by the root so they dont grow back

    • @JosephBallinin313
      @JosephBallinin313 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@@cowmann3555 yeah, that's how they getcha 😂

    • @ddoubleg
      @ddoubleg 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Fr 😂😂😅……

    • @lauraparker6301
      @lauraparker6301 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@cowmann3555😂😂😂 exactly

  • @meech42069
    @meech42069 ปีที่แล้ว +160

    8500 acres is like a whole damn county 😭😭

    • @thegreenerthemeaner
      @thegreenerthemeaner 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Far from it. 8500 acres around here is getting almost average. Farming 18-20,000, thats getting up there.

    • @chriscarter5846
      @chriscarter5846 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That's the average grain farm in Saskatchewan Canada then there are farms like Monette with 150,000 acres

    • @Shervan96
      @Shervan96 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @PequenoPipothat farm is almost as big as Spain lol

    • @deadknuckles6346
      @deadknuckles6346 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @PequenoPipo22 million acres it’s the Mudanjiang City Mega Farm in Heilongjiang China

    • @nathanholy
      @nathanholy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      13 square miles is huge ion care what any of you say

  • @silentmayan5427
    @silentmayan5427 ปีที่แล้ว +2004

    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.

    • @khaleddoudechnumber1473
      @khaleddoudechnumber1473 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      pheromone???

    • @silentmayan5427
      @silentmayan5427 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      @khaleddoudechnumber1473 Yes, that's how a lot of wild life navigate their environment and find their way back to their nest

    • @khaleddoudechnumber1473
      @khaleddoudechnumber1473 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@silentmayan5427 a rock isnt alive. A pheremone is released by a living being

    • @dangerm52
      @dangerm52 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      ​@@khaleddoudechnumber1473 r/whoosh

    • @silentmayan5427
      @silentmayan5427 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      @@khaleddoudechnumber1473 ah, the naivety of youth. I'm jealous.

  • @wasntme3651
    @wasntme3651 ปีที่แล้ว +3596

    Damn, 8500 acres is massive.

    • @gagegriffith3308
      @gagegriffith3308 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      Yeah ridding that much land of rocks would be impossible

    • @Adamu98
      @Adamu98 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Crazy thing theres bigger farms in the great plains states.

    • @mikebastiat
      @mikebastiat ปีที่แล้ว +207

      Lots of rich rural folk who dress like they're poor

    • @lyndahammond8883
      @lyndahammond8883 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Wasn't Me: yeah, well, that's Texas, and don't you ever forget it!

    • @sheldonsimon4484
      @sheldonsimon4484 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      @@mikebastiat huh? They are farmers, so they dress like farmers

  • @sebastianjohansen2142
    @sebastianjohansen2142 ปีที่แล้ว +371

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

    • @matthunt7390
      @matthunt7390 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Wrong. It feeds the soul and makes true character!!

    • @griffithwes0074
      @griffithwes0074 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      One must imagine Sisyphus happy

    • @tomsfruitstand6821
      @tomsfruitstand6821 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@matthunt7390Especially getting to spend time and make memories with the old man

    • @thelonelystankmuncher8879
      @thelonelystankmuncher8879 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I'd rather have a manual labor job than a job that makes me sit in a cubicle

    • @rexx2338
      @rexx2338 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@thelonelystankmuncher8879what's your job

  • @lyndseyfifield
    @lyndseyfifield ปีที่แล้ว +107

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

    • @paxundpeace9970
      @paxundpeace9970 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      For sure they are not without season workers

  • @Lakeman3211
    @Lakeman3211 ปีที่แล้ว +700

    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!

    • @RealAthrey
      @RealAthrey ปีที่แล้ว +7

      12 ton truck in a day !!
      💀

    • @tjsbbi
      @tjsbbi ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Keep at it. You'll get all of them.

    • @bluntly-
      @bluntly- ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RealAthrey Lobster buyer here , we buy the lobster and will take out lobsters until the crate weighs 107 pounds , so picture a ship out of 200+ crates that just came out of the water , most I ever done was the exact 200 mark and that adds up too 21,400 pounds i lifted within just a couple hours , don’t underestimate yourself nor anybody else !

    • @danielp4507
      @danielp4507 ปีที่แล้ว

      We would fill a payloader bucket 12 or 15 times a day for a week

    • @spartoiss488
      @spartoiss488 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its because of tornado ? We don't have rocks falling from the sky in france

  • @larryrunnels1190
    @larryrunnels1190 ปีที่แล้ว +338

    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.

    • @ImpetuousPorkus
      @ImpetuousPorkus ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Oooh thank you for this info. I kept wondering how rocks seemingly appear out of nowhere every year after picking them up.

    • @larryrunnels1190
      @larryrunnels1190 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@ImpetuousPorkus most people with pipelines crossing their property include regular rock removal from leased right of ways.

    • @calebverdu3091
      @calebverdu3091 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      So long as there are nephews and cousins, they ain't buying a rock picker though 💀

    • @larryrunnels1190
      @larryrunnels1190 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@calebverdu3091 rocks will be crawling out long after neices and nephews are not around.

    • @calebverdu3091
      @calebverdu3091 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@larryrunnels1190 Oh for sure.

  • @tomgates316
    @tomgates316 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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.

  • @samgraham6628
    @samgraham6628 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    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💪

    • @kennethlopes7515
      @kennethlopes7515 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sounds like my dad.

    • @mercytowers2221
      @mercytowers2221 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lovely story of a hard working farmer.

  • @robtaylor6806
    @robtaylor6806 ปีที่แล้ว +759

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

    • @lilsteroids619
      @lilsteroids619 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why though??

    • @DTux5249
      @DTux5249 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      ​@@lilsteroids619rocks heat and cool differently from soil. This means that over the course of the year, they'll slowly creep out of the dirt.

    • @lilsteroids619
      @lilsteroids619 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DTux5249 that's crazy but what's crazier is how did you see my comment through all these other ones

    • @icantgetdubs2433
      @icantgetdubs2433 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe cuz u got 500+ likes dumb ahhh

    • @kitsune.u4ea
      @kitsune.u4ea ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DTux5249 thank you so much. This confused me so much. I was wondering how the rocks keep coming back. I thought someone littered rocks across fields nation wide every year.

  • @troyrosenbaugh9935
    @troyrosenbaugh9935 ปีที่แล้ว +579

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

    • @erbewayne6868
      @erbewayne6868 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I started helping pick up rocks when I was six on my grandparents farm.

    • @FastHouseracing
      @FastHouseracing ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah same we had to do that because it was cattle ground and there was a lot of rocks

    • @woozii.capalot
      @woozii.capalot ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How do they get there?

    • @FastHouseracing
      @FastHouseracing ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@woozii.capalot For me the reason was it was right next to a mountain

    • @FastHouseracing
      @FastHouseracing ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@woozii.capalot I guess he just has a lot of rocks in his ground

  • @michellehaley3060
    @michellehaley3060 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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!!❤❤❤❤

  • @DJG184
    @DJG184 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @themrchrister08
    @themrchrister08 ปีที่แล้ว +237

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

    • @thcall6441
      @thcall6441 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think they multiply or earth burps them up. It’s like the little Dutch boy sticking his finger in the dike. 😊😊

    • @bfuryy
      @bfuryy ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We live on a big rock

    • @shelleyoxenhorn833
      @shelleyoxenhorn833 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Philadelphia too

    • @rongray4118
      @rongray4118 ปีที่แล้ว

      Northern Nevada... 1975 MB 406 and the rake and blade (windrows)...

    • @rotunda57
      @rotunda57 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They fall from the sky at night

  • @stevecourville199
    @stevecourville199 ปีที่แล้ว +272

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

    • @ameliaestrada8023
      @ameliaestrada8023 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Where do they come from

    • @couchpotatoes5158
      @couchpotatoes5158 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ikr, there are these stone walls all around, we have one in our back yard from god knows how long ago

    • @kaedensokay
      @kaedensokay ปีที่แล้ว +2

      MA farmers represent!

    • @cjd2275
      @cjd2275 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I live in Massachusetts where the hell u picking rock potato at

    • @kgw100
      @kgw100 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Northeast is a different story. Waaay more rocks and less top soil. All that glacial till and river rocks. More rocks than soil usually 😂

  • @JDCIncAccount
    @JDCIncAccount 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

  • @MichelleRougier
    @MichelleRougier ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @cooper8318
      @cooper8318 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      They are. By feeding them

    • @garettdoornwaard4822
      @garettdoornwaard4822 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You dont get blessed with land. You take out a loan from the bank for it.

    • @MichelleRougier
      @MichelleRougier ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@garettdoornwaard4822 who do you think led them to the land to begin with and made it possible for the purchase of the land? It was a blessing from the creator.

    • @mrsavagemans
      @mrsavagemans 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@MichelleRougierland was for sale they bought land with money ooh ohh ah ah

    • @lanceholder4131
      @lanceholder4131 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @MichelleRougler must be poor to be subtlety trying to guilt in the YT shorts comments… how sad haha

  • @jimzimprich6969
    @jimzimprich6969 ปีที่แล้ว +485

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

    • @darnelljackson2160
      @darnelljackson2160 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I used to pick rocks from my Grandpa's fields in up state NY. I was amazed how they always grew back year after year. LOL

    • @DirtbikesAndMore
      @DirtbikesAndMore ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hey I found another North Idaho farm boy!

    • @darnelljackson2160
      @darnelljackson2160 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DirtbikesAndMore I grew up just over the line in NW Montana. Sanders County. I miss that neck of the woods.

    • @jimzimprich6969
      @jimzimprich6969 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DirtbikesAndMore
      P.F. ?
      You ?

    • @20102010b
      @20102010b ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yoo N Idaho represent. I grew up on a farm just south of bonners

  • @WillInWestPalm
    @WillInWestPalm ปีที่แล้ว +149

    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.

  • @davidh9897
    @davidh9897 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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

  • @LindaKimble-np9gx
    @LindaKimble-np9gx ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @ItsJustGravy
    @ItsJustGravy ปีที่แล้ว +133

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

    • @kitsune.u4ea
      @kitsune.u4ea ปีที่แล้ว +6

      What do you mean every year? How do the rocks keep getting back into the field? Who keeps replacing your rock pests? Did the migrate there over the winter?

    • @dubb5508
      @dubb5508 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@Kitsùne it's something to do with the ground freezing in the winter.

    • @ItsJustGravy
      @ItsJustGravy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Kitsùne they appear out of nowhere I swear 😆

    • @skylaninaction
      @skylaninaction ปีที่แล้ว

      I did this too. terrible times. I do not miss it one bit

    • @ItsJustGravy
      @ItsJustGravy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@skylaninaction builds character.

  • @azaradog1804
    @azaradog1804 ปีที่แล้ว +47

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

    • @ozzy_fromhell
      @ozzy_fromhell ปีที่แล้ว

      8 acres sounds like a lot brother

    • @liebendeinsam
      @liebendeinsam ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@ozzy_fromhell sounds like only. 😂

  • @FS_RopingandRodeo
    @FS_RopingandRodeo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @richardnott9587
    @richardnott9587 ปีที่แล้ว +31

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

    • @matthewcullen1298
      @matthewcullen1298 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My dad lives on a mountain that is volcanic soil. You literally can't walk 3 feet before the next one. He had to get an excavator in two have a small house yard..i feel your pain Mate 😊

    • @retardationnation869
      @retardationnation869 ปีที่แล้ว

      This happens almost everywhere people farm

  • @UMMrealLoud
    @UMMrealLoud ปีที่แล้ว +91

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

  • @hiccless
    @hiccless ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @idontwannaidontwanna7307
    @idontwannaidontwanna7307 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yup!!! Same here in Queensland 🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾

  • @lockraptor13
    @lockraptor13 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Bro this was my childhood

    • @scotmandel6699
      @scotmandel6699 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same here in South Dakota. Milking cows was worse.

  • @user-zy3ci4ky2r
    @user-zy3ci4ky2r 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @petek6522
    @petek6522 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

  • @normferguson2769
    @normferguson2769 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    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.

    • @Nomomdonttouchmethere
      @Nomomdonttouchmethere ปีที่แล้ว

      Only a Ferguson could find the rock grabber….

    • @benp3485
      @benp3485 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Where are these rocks coming from? 😮

  • @charlesbaril3038
    @charlesbaril3038 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @laurawalsh3743
    @laurawalsh3743 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Normal annual task here in Michigan too

  • @Glipsnarp
    @Glipsnarp ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @garymurt9112
    @garymurt9112 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    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.

    • @nothingnothing1799
      @nothingnothing1799 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The ground is like ¼ clay and the rest is rock cant go down more then an inch or 2 without finding some

    • @garymurt9112
      @garymurt9112 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Nothing Nothing sounds like southern Missouri

    • @juleshunter9214
      @juleshunter9214 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, same here. I'm from northern Lower Austria in Austria.

    • @garymurt9112
      @garymurt9112 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@juleshunter9214 guess if everyone had lush loamy topsoil, we wouldn't know what hard work was

  • @yarnybart5911
    @yarnybart5911 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Will-lh5yg
    @Will-lh5yg ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @Skribbles
    @Skribbles ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Farmers are the real heros this Nation needs 🥰

  • @foxrun3768
    @foxrun3768 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

  • @user-fy5zx4ug8e
    @user-fy5zx4ug8e 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank goodness for a dump bed on a ATV. Couldn't do without one!!

  • @fritzpipkin792
    @fritzpipkin792 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @EnriqueReyesJrREALTOR
    @EnriqueReyesJrREALTOR ปีที่แล้ว +10

    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.

  • @MarkWilliams-vp7xw
    @MarkWilliams-vp7xw ปีที่แล้ว +20

    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

    • @georgemartin4963
      @georgemartin4963 ปีที่แล้ว

      We did the same with our pick-up letting it go alone in granny gear.

    • @electrocanman
      @electrocanman ปีที่แล้ว

      I picked bales out of the field doing that with our old flatbed.

  • @Archk1
    @Archk1 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @betsypennock3954
    @betsypennock3954 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @whocanitbenow5368
    @whocanitbenow5368 ปีที่แล้ว +42

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

    • @toddman22410
      @toddman22410 ปีที่แล้ว

      Looks pretty fucking easy lmfao. Must be nice being rich.

  • @Bowfinger6383
    @Bowfinger6383 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @johnlindsay7273
    @johnlindsay7273 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @satishkanuri
    @satishkanuri 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would love to visit your farm one day hopefully.

  • @alexscott5497
    @alexscott5497 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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

  • @mgdwj
    @mgdwj ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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.

    • @starchaser1437
      @starchaser1437 ปีที่แล้ว

      What years were you picking stones and cotton? I'm 21 did it back in like 2008-2015 roughly

    • @mgdwj
      @mgdwj ปีที่แล้ว

      @@starchaser1437 this would have been back in the early to mid 90’s.

  • @Wade-1
    @Wade-1 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    What a blessing

  • @shelbyoffrink4424
    @shelbyoffrink4424 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @gamingripper7115
    @gamingripper7115 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @DVANCEK9
    @DVANCEK9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

    • @nickelkins2434
      @nickelkins2434 ปีที่แล้ว

      Deere all the way

    • @chrisnoname2725
      @chrisnoname2725 ปีที่แล้ว

      But why do people use these in a field and not just get a ute (truck) with a tipper tray?

  • @dontmakememad6759
    @dontmakememad6759 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @angelicamichelle1646
      @angelicamichelle1646 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's terribly sad cuz my mom worked 3 jobs for years many years so all of the girls in the family can have one acre of land and the brother of the family wants to piss it away and the girls don't care except for me that bought her own place to live here

  • @nanettewhite3093
    @nanettewhite3093 ปีที่แล้ว

    I and hubby lived on 5 acres in N.W.Arkansas. I would pull up big rocks to make room for planting perineal bulbs and flowers at the edge of pathways or edges of lawn. But I would need to pick out smaller or bigger rocks that seemed to come up to surface. At least every to every other year.
    Limited my green thumb at times.
    Had to dig out flower beds I made near our house. Our dogs would dig up the dirt, with the plants being ruined.
    I finally got 5 gallon buckets. Filled them with the dirt, plants and bulbs. Dogs were too big to be comfortable laying across plastic edges of the buckets.
    Finally had nice flower beds. Never was into growing vegetables, too intimidated by their needs for insect control and forest animal prevention.❤

  • @Ryan-um8ug
    @Ryan-um8ug ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @colincrew1857
    @colincrew1857 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    America really got family farms bigger than whole countries

  • @danw.7935
    @danw.7935 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @bobstark4020
      @bobstark4020 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In the snow, after milking the cows,with cardboard in his shoes. Did i forget anything?? Lol

    • @timwenell63
      @timwenell63 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Against the wind!

    • @bobstark4020
      @bobstark4020 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Tim Wenell oh yeah, forgot that one.

    • @winkfinkerstien1957
      @winkfinkerstien1957 ปีที่แล้ว

      And it was uphill... Both ways! 😆

  • @brettkowalski
    @brettkowalski 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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".

  • @deedeewoodard4728
    @deedeewoodard4728 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @sidewaysaction9983
    @sidewaysaction9983 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    We built dry stone walls with the rocks in Yorkshire

  • @andyburkinshaw2623
    @andyburkinshaw2623 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @ralphbuschman3364
    @ralphbuschman3364 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @carsonknarr9163
    @carsonknarr9163 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Yes buddy I am pretty sure every farmer does this

  • @sethwittrup9688
    @sethwittrup9688 ปีที่แล้ว +57

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

    • @icantgetdubs2433
      @icantgetdubs2433 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m thankful I saw the same video you did pa

  • @loganreed6679
    @loganreed6679 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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

  • @Svendskommentar
    @Svendskommentar ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @wowitspj6224
    @wowitspj6224 ปีที่แล้ว

    Uncle was right ! John did farm rocks 😂😂

    • @carbro476
      @carbro476 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      John, the rock farmer

  • @user-NO_ONE840
    @user-NO_ONE840 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @katewyse8228
    @katewyse8228 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @sharonwilbourne7256
    @sharonwilbourne7256 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting.
    Michigan field stones are mostly smooth and rounded. More of them surface every year. We pick them up every year too because if a harvester pucks one up it can irreparably harm the equipment as it shoots through. We do the same things with our picked rocks.
    Our rocks can be different kinds and variously colored depending on their source material.
    Our rocks were ground down smooth by the 1-2 mile thick glaciers that once moved across our lands. When the glaciers moved they would pick up rocks and boulders as they moved across the lands. The bottom most part of the glaciers is churned up, picking up rocks, then dropping the rocks as the glacied moved or when they melted.
    The glaciers ground down everything that they crossed over including mountains. Because of the glacier movements, large boulders, called erratics, are found everywhere. Some are buried, while others are fully exposed. The buried ones can cause harm to equipment.
    We have machines called rock pickers which are run through the fields to pick up smaller stones.

  • @lisagindroz1723
    @lisagindroz1723 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @corelreef6586
    @corelreef6586 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @RippingItUp
    @RippingItUp ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I feel you man it’s always a chore

  • @surendarchowdaryvattikuti3478
    @surendarchowdaryvattikuti3478 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did you just said 8,500 acres farm... Wow... I love to have such a big farm some day...❤️❤️❤️❤️ I love farming....

  • @rickykey1175
    @rickykey1175 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am 62 and still picking them up on my 50 ac farm the lord blessed me with the place hes makes me work for it and I will here from Bedford county Virginia

  • @sydclark5581
    @sydclark5581 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @bobroberson9286
    @bobroberson9286 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Building a rock house for the rattlesnakes ⚡

  • @karlatycholiz2284
    @karlatycholiz2284 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those rocks look just as heavy as when we picked 50 years ago what a great work lesson thanks dony

  • @hambuga69
    @hambuga69 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    What kind of seeds do you buy to grow rocks?

    • @familyfarmlife
      @familyfarmlife  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It’s a secret 🤫. Can’t give away everything

    • @juliancortez3250
      @juliancortez3250 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pebbles

    • @danstark462
      @danstark462 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Don't be igneous

    • @matthewcullen1298
      @matthewcullen1298 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@danstark462 😂

    • @glp046
      @glp046 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@juliancortez3250chocolate pebbles . Fruity pebbles don't work as well

  • @daftnord4957
    @daftnord4957 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @karenpatrech4346
    @karenpatrech4346 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I was young, I asked my Father to bring home rocks in the Tractor's Carry-all Bin. On my days off I would build Garden Edges out of the Rocks, until I had Finished all the Gardens. My Parents had no time to make pretty Flower Gardens so I did that, and also the Home Vegie Garden. At the end of each day on the Farm when Dad had the Carry-all on, it was quick for himnto just collect that amount, rather than spend hours doing it all at once.. But we only had 5 acres on the HomenFarm and 22 Acres on the leased Farm, 2 kms up the road. It belonged to a Widow. She had a Pension so she just leased it to my Parents for $5 a week. This was from the early 70's.

  • @goochi5544
    @goochi5544 ปีที่แล้ว

    Farmers are really unsung heroes.

  • @linfraredl4906
    @linfraredl4906 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @emillykkegaard4947
    @emillykkegaard4947 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @pathpathfinder2181
    @pathpathfinder2181 ปีที่แล้ว

    8500 acres of family farm land 😳
    Man that's like owning a kingdom ! 😋😆👍
    Appriciate the efforts of farmers and their hard work !!! 🙏

  • @Fierriel
    @Fierriel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have 1 acre of pasture in AZ and have to do this constantly. It’s amazing how many rocks just show up!

  • @camohawk6703
    @camohawk6703 ปีที่แล้ว

    The never ending struggle of farmers.

  • @the_farmerYT
    @the_farmerYT 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @outsideview9052
    @outsideview9052 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember doing that for hours and hours. Then after you plow the field more rocks are brought up to the top.
    Now they make machines to do this job.

  • @macmacaguilar1749
    @macmacaguilar1749 ปีที่แล้ว

    that guy picking up the rocks is so handsome i think im inlove with him 😊😊😊❤❤❤

  • @sumakwelvictoria5635
    @sumakwelvictoria5635 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's free rocks. Good building material.
    They look like limestone or marble?
    If you guys start building a dug-out hut, root cellar, cistern or a pond - those rocks will be really handy.

  • @adrianjesaitis4068
    @adrianjesaitis4068 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @KF1_KARTING
    @KF1_KARTING ปีที่แล้ว

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