Well I enjoy your videos retired farmer in Michigan and what I enjoy seeing is how your whole family works together even picking up rocks I enjoy seeing that thank you for your hard work
2020: the year when everything except the Klein pasture went south. These may seem to be small improvements by themselves, but adding them together, it's quite a difference. When you get in there with the brushcutter you will really see a difference. Thanks for the video.
Hey Ryan! Hope your doin good. Growing up we had a Ford 5000 With a loader on it and I would put it in low range first or second gear and just jump off and let it creep across the field and just throw rocks in the bucket of the tractor drove across the field. Probably the one thing of growing up on a farm I never really enjoyed.
Brings back memories. Back then (late 1950s) all we had was a tractor and a stone boat. Every stone was handled going on and coming off. I have no idea how many hours I've picked rock out of fields.
Some great rocks for a driveway. Yet again a great job completed. Hats off to to all. When you tipped that trailer, sounded great in my Bose headphones.
back in the day we used to spend days picking stones off land that was ploughed ...........most of the stones that u were picking we would have rolled down with a water filled roller after the barley was sown ........
@Ax Man Several years ago I took my wife to Oatman, AZ. she mentioned all the rocks around the mines. Then I took her to the big Gold Mine, Las Vegas. We went there in a 55,000 dollar Cadillac and came home in a 250,000 dollar Greyhound. Oops
As I'm watching you pick those rocks i was thinking that they are the perfect size to be used as Rip-Rap. then you dumped them around the culvert. Great minds think alike.
I've never picked up rocks before, but have picked up my share of sticks ( AKA ROOTS) off of new ground for several years of my life. Good for you to have a whole family to pitch in and help.
We have one field that shoves up new rocks every year. We have been hand picking them the “old fashioned” way for the last decade. Every year we think it is finally done and then the cycle starts over again
That's a good use of rocks. I've actually participated in hand picking rocks like those from 7 Acres it has been Farmland at one time and then had a bunch of rubble dumped in it as it was changing from Farmland to a Irrigation Supply Company we were in adult school and we just wanted a couple acres of grass it took a couple of months but it was worth it and we had a great pile of rocks to use for landscape and runaway Rainwater
Sorry to have to correct you, you are never finished picking up rocks. Tillage equipment will make more. Picked up rocks on our farm as well as the neighbors.
What a lot of rocks, to have to pick up by hand. It looks like the rocks were put to good use. I hope the rocks keep your bridge from Washing out, for a long time.
I was going to say that rock is like Rip Rap size rock and good for Water ways. Lets dig18 would spread that pretty good. You did a nice job and filled in the hole. Rocket the dog!
I grew up in the Kettle Moraine area in South East Wisconsin. Every time my parents wanted to plant a tree or prepare ground for a garden, they would end up cursing through the entire event because of all the rocks we had to dig through. Most of it was limestone. Is that the same thing that you farm through? My dad always said that he'd never buy a new house if he couldn't dig a 3 foot hole without finding a rock. They followed me to Florida. We pay big money to get stone here. And you can't dig a 3 foot hole here, because at 1 foot, you hit water.
Back in my day farmers would recruit the neighbor kids around the block for (I believe) $3 an hour. Only went twice because I missed too many and my brother could lift the big ones. Also for reference each side of said block is a mile long each.
Old school if not using a horse and a low wood manure wagon? I use a draught horse sometimes and horse comes to me when I whistle if he don't stop to graze while I'm picking stones. No driver needed and low fuel cost! Only problem is that I have to unload by hand also. (Thinking of it now I may try to use a folded tarp under and drive it off?) :D
We rented a farm for awhile when I was a teenager which we would haul off 15-20 flat racks (aka small square bale wagons) full on a 15 acre field. My dad had a shear-bolt trip 5 bottom plow when he first rented that farm. The following year, he went with a 6 bottom spring reset plow. Hmmm, I wonder why?!
@@davidyoder6174 Lead is not dangerous if not touched. These lead miners had to dig many feet into the ground. Just as lead paint is not dangerous as a paint, it is the loose chips that cause a hazard for younger children. It poses zero risk buried under ground in rock.
great video ryan that is alot of rocks on that fieald that u guys picked up by hand there probaly alot more out thier witch wood requrie alot of digging if u chosse to do that
On the video at 2:24 someone threw a rock inn that was carved by an Indian it looks like a bird but Arrowhead Hunter for like 25-30 years but it was a nice carving right hand side two at 2:24 or 225 right hand side of the bucket
Looks like you could REALLY use a big heavy field roller... might see if you could demo one! That would work wonders push those rocks right down flush to the ground and allow you not only save yourself some maintenance headaches on your hay mower but also put beans into the rotation on some of your rockier ground that you haven't historically planted beans on and improve your soils and bottom line. I know, new ones are expensive, but I bet if you demoed one and saw the value it could bring to your operation, you'd at least be sold on getting a used one or building one... after all it's not rocket science! Later and best of luck! OL J R :)
@@dwightl5863 Well, if THAT many rocks come up, then it's time to rent a rock rake and rock picker and pick the field off... well worth the money. BUT it would take DECADES for enough rocks to come up for that to happen... Later! OL J R: )
Hannah is back!! Good to see all is well
That's a lot of rocks.... Nice to see your sidekick back!!
Hand-picked rocks are the best kind! That's a mighty fine dog too.
Well I enjoy your videos retired farmer in Michigan and what I enjoy seeing is how your whole family works together even picking up rocks I enjoy seeing that thank you for your hard work
Love seeing the whole family out there 🧡
2020: the year when everything except the Klein pasture went south. These may seem to be small improvements by themselves, but adding them together, it's quite a difference. When you get in there with the brushcutter you will really see a difference. Thanks for the video.
Hey Ryan! Hope your doin good.
Growing up we had a Ford 5000 With a loader on it and I would put it in low range first or second gear and just jump off and let it creep across the field and just throw rocks in the bucket of the tractor drove across the field. Probably the one thing of growing up on a farm I never really enjoyed.
That Rocket is fast - keeping up with the 4-wheeler - WOW
It's interesting to see how much different the rocks are down in the driftless region compared to the glacial rocks up north
Some of those glacial rocks are HUGE! Great for lawn decoration since they’re nice and round!
@@HowFarmsWork if you ever need some I have all the rocks you can pick
7:35 Rocket is a awesome guard dog, that could get scared of his own shadow while daydreaming :)
missed that clip. thanks! We all secretly love Rocket!
Looks like you had great help.
Brings back memories. Back then (late 1950s) all we had was a tractor and a stone boat. Every stone was handled going on and coming off. I have no idea how many hours I've picked rock out of fields.
Nothing in the world is more relaxing then watching someone else work!
I've picked so many rocks my back hurts watching you do it.
Even with the equipment you used, it’s still backbreaking work. Good use of the rocks.
Agreed
Some great rocks for a driveway. Yet again a great job completed. Hats off to to all. When you tipped that trailer, sounded great in my Bose headphones.
I remember doing that back in my young days it's a lot of hard work , but it does pays off in the end
Picking rocks oh my back still aches LOL good family activity 👍 keep up the good work Ryan 🍺
Holy crap that is a insane amount of rocks
If we picked all of our rocks that size our land would drop six inches in elevation.
so true lol
same here.
That brings back bad memories from when I was a kid.
Short and to the point. Liked..
So good to see Hannah again
I spent most of my childhood picking up rocks. Can still see them in some of the ditches I filled up. I still can't go past one without stopping
ROCK OUT!!
back in the day we used to spend days picking stones off land that was ploughed ...........most of the stones that u were picking we would have rolled down with a water filled roller after the barley was sown ........
Ho the joy on all of your faces.
😂 thats how we did it with our hayfield too! Although we didn't have quite so much!
Love the video Ryan keep the awesome content coming 👍
Like to see the Familys at work .
love the way you guys call them Rocks ,,here they are called large stones, great vid Ryan please keep them coming
Thanks Ryan, some hard case rocks on that field, well done Thanks
I've learned, over the years that when I pick one rock two come back, it's magic
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@Ax Man Several years ago I took my wife to Oatman, AZ. she mentioned all the rocks around the mines. Then I took her to the big Gold Mine, Las Vegas. We went there in a 55,000 dollar Cadillac and came home in a 250,000 dollar Greyhound. Oops
As I'm watching you pick those rocks i was thinking that they are the perfect size to be used as Rip-Rap. then you dumped them around the culvert. Great minds think alike.
I see you found one of those rare high iron content rocks ... sometimes known as an old sledge hammer !! Maybe you should start an iron mine.
Brings back memories. Great video 👍
I've never picked up rocks before, but have picked up my share of sticks ( AKA ROOTS) off of new ground for several years of my life. Good for you to have a whole family to pitch in and help.
You didn’t just farm overtop of them?
This brings back great rock picking memories!
Free $$ wise RipRap. Hey Gramps, Shoulda had your buddy Jack helping. He is closer to the ground than the adults.
We have one field that shoves up new rocks every year. We have been hand picking them the “old fashioned” way for the last decade. Every year we think it is finally done and then the cycle starts over again
Makes my back hurt just watching you all!😄
That's a good use of rocks. I've actually participated in hand picking rocks like those from 7 Acres it has been Farmland at one time and then had a bunch of rubble dumped in it as it was changing from Farmland to a Irrigation Supply Company we were in adult school and we just wanted a couple acres of grass it took a couple of months but it was worth it and we had a great pile of rocks to use for landscape and runaway Rainwater
Nice to see Hannah.. Great vid Ryan thanks..
Need to demo a rock picker. That was a lot of rocks to pick by hand.
Sorry to have to correct you, you are never finished picking up rocks. Tillage equipment will make more. Picked up rocks on our farm as well as the neighbors.
Great video showing how farmers take care of there land better then any government.
What a lot of rocks, to have to pick up by hand. It looks like the rocks were put to good use. I hope the rocks keep your bridge from Washing out, for a long time.
Ryan that what you call rocking good time all you need music hehehe when picking up the rock
I was going to say that rock is like Rip Rap size rock and good for Water ways. Lets dig18 would spread that pretty good. You did a nice job and filled in the hole. Rocket the dog!
Would you like a little grass to go with your rocks? 😂😂😂
Ryan, maybe Kuhn makes a rock picker and will bring it over for you to try......
Heck of a good start for a rock farm lol
Imagine being someone a long way into the future that comes across these rocks, they'd be thinking it's some kind of burial site
Looks like you got more bushels per acre than most crops. Good video!
I grew up in the Kettle Moraine area in South East Wisconsin. Every time my parents wanted to plant a tree or prepare ground for a garden, they would end up cursing through the entire event because of all the rocks we had to dig through. Most of it was limestone. Is that the same thing that you farm through? My dad always said that he'd never buy a new house if he couldn't dig a 3 foot hole without finding a rock. They followed me to Florida. We pay big money to get stone here. And you can't dig a 3 foot hole here, because at 1 foot, you hit water.
That's a lot of rocks, and a lot of work to pick them😉👍
Great crop of rock. Looked like spoils from mining for sure.
Back in my day farmers would recruit the neighbor kids around the block for (I believe) $3 an hour. Only went twice because I missed too many and my brother could lift the big ones. Also for reference each side of said block is a mile long each.
That's a yearly occurrence here in southeastern side of Wisconsin. Farming on the Niagra escarpment sucks for rocks.
I call that Rock Patrol! My kids love it, lol.
Not an ideal family day, but man that was a lot of rocks from the field. Have a good day.
You should get a good used rock picker they work really good on those size rocks.
Dang surprisingly you had any knives left on your cutter.
Thats great all your rocks in clusters ,they tend to be all over the place lol.
No social distancing or masks!
On the plus side, you now have enough gravel to make a new driveway
Looks good until next seasons frost heaves.
Old school if not using a horse and a low wood manure wagon? I use a draught horse sometimes and horse comes to me when I whistle if he don't stop to graze while I'm picking stones. No driver needed and low fuel cost! Only problem is that I have to unload by hand also. (Thinking of it now I may try to use a folded tarp under and drive it off?) :D
Hey Ryan!! Hey Kuster family!! Should've thrown the rocks on Travis's driveway. Maybe those wouldn't wash away lol!!
Yup been there done that 😎🚜👍
Nice crop of rocks.....
I did rock picking away back in my young lad days on the farm.
We rented a farm for awhile when I was a teenager which we would haul off 15-20 flat racks (aka small square bale wagons) full on a 15 acre field. My dad had a shear-bolt trip 5 bottom plow when he first rented that farm. The following year, he went with a 6 bottom spring reset plow. Hmmm, I wonder why?!
You should go to the county jail and get them guys in orange coverall's to help with that LOL.
Ryan quick question. You have said few time that lead mining was done in your area. Do you have a lead problem do to the mining?
the lead miners would dig anywhere from 10 feet to over 40 feet in areas... i believe there just in deposits not everywhere throughout the rock base.
Ryan -- Be sure to have any well water near that tested for lead (if you haven't already!)
@@davidyoder6174 Lead is not dangerous if not touched. These lead miners had to dig many feet into the ground. Just as lead paint is not dangerous as a paint, it is the loose chips that cause a hazard for younger children. It poses zero risk buried under ground in rock.
I haven’t seen or heard of any issues with the mining. As someone else says, usually it’s not a problem if it stays where it’s at.
great video ryan that is alot of rocks on that fieald that u guys picked up by hand there probaly alot more out thier witch wood requrie alot of digging if u chosse to do that
On the video at 2:24 someone threw a rock inn that was carved by an Indian it looks like a bird but Arrowhead Hunter for like 25-30 years but it was a nice carving right hand side two at 2:24 or 225 right hand side of the bucket
A 224 it took it last little flip and sat perfectly the beak is on the right
Wow that’s a lot of rocks, have you ever considered opening a rock quarry 😂 thanks for the video Ryan 👍
We used to use a stone boat. We used a John Deere b to drag it.
Good stuff
Love your videos
Rock on!!! 🤘🤘
The real question is who was the lucky guy that got to drive the bobcat 😂
Hard days work doing that. Think I would go get a power rock picker for that field.
Two jobs with one bunch of rocks, lol!
Brings back horrible memories walk endless miles a year Lol
That is the hard way, but I picked up rocks that way every year on our family farm in SW MN.
Got some good rip rap out of the deal on the cheap
Rockets a good boy
Those rocks sound different from ours interesting
Didn't seem to have rocks in that 😂
Save those rocks n build a derecho bunker
I've done that a few times. One of the worst jobs on the farm.
My wife: “what are you doing?”
Me: “I’m watching Ryan standing in a pipe talking”
Wife: “who?”
Old fashioned to me is me for one doing it myself two putting tractor in gear slowest it wold crawl and three pick rocks
Looks like you could REALLY use a big heavy field roller... might see if you could demo one! That would work wonders push those rocks right down flush to the ground and allow you not only save yourself some maintenance headaches on your hay mower but also put beans into the rotation on some of your rockier ground that you haven't historically planted beans on and improve your soils and bottom line. I know, new ones are expensive, but I bet if you demoed one and saw the value it could bring to your operation, you'd at least be sold on getting a used one or building one... after all it's not rocket science!
Later and best of luck! OL J R :)
Seems eventually you would end up with a "cobble stone" field.
@@dwightl5863 Well, if THAT many rocks come up, then it's time to rent a rock rake and rock picker and pick the field off... well worth the money. BUT it would take DECADES for enough rocks to come up for that to happen... Later! OL J R: )
What do you expect from poor rocket? She gets sick of chasing the four-wheeler so I guess if you can't beat them join them!
Next time give everyone a 5 gal (20 ltr.) bucket to fill. Easier to empty bucket into loader than picking up pile by hand.
Who’s the lazy person in the bob cat
.....And we never tilled that field agin.
no Ryan my dog can not do that but she can open the door by herself.. she lets herself in and out of the house..
I need to teach Rocket that!