My brothers and I were the rock pickers with a stone boat when we were kids. What a dirty job! We would have loved this picker.

Reminds me of the potatoes digger we had on the farm when I was a kid. There a lot of rocks in that field.

we had a ford 3000 and as a child i loved hitching a ride while it pulled cultivator and birds would follow picking worms on the plowed field, still miss it.

One of the best rock pickers designs ever created

@billbixby977

10 ай бұрын

My dad would argue me and my brothers were. I didn't know these were a thing until rn

@EthanPDobbins

10 ай бұрын

​@@billbixby977child labor is the best labor because it's free 🤣 just gotta feed them like normal

Wow nice I can never get rid of all the rocks they keep coming back like the birds 👍

I love seeing the older equipment being maintained and used.

@SKFortyseven3277

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@AutoCrete

10 ай бұрын

The money saved on gloves alone would pay for that picker in 3 or 4 years.

Love the way that Ford sounds.

That is pretty damn Ingenious engineering

thanks for sharing what a great machine looks like it works really good

Shure picked the right day! Not too wet, not too dry.

Looks like a bountiful harvest, wish I had one I have a pretty good crop also.

Our county agent in Antrim County, Michigan built the, or at least one of, the original rock pickers in the late 50s. They converted a one row potato digger. Walker was his last name. Very smart cookie.

@tommarple1449

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, this actually is a potato harvester.

@rileyhogan8248

2 жыл бұрын

@@tommarple1449 I like the rear end pto and the truck front axle. Adds character.

@Tinkerbell227

Ай бұрын

What model potato picker is this? I would like to find one to actually do potatoes with. I don't like the original Ferguson design. To narrow and doesn't collect them.

I've always wanted to build a miniature self-propelled version of this rock-picker, for use in our garden. It's about 5,000 sq. feet, too big for hand-picking the thousands of small rocks. Maybe I should just get busy! Electric might even work.

WOW! Wish they had a mini version of this I could use in my yard. Except no matter how many times I ran over it, I know there's another billion tons just under the surface waiting to pop up!

@timothykeith1367

Жыл бұрын

I think I could build one. I'd try to make the conveyer more level because the larger rocks keep sliding down.

@williamoloughlin8298

Жыл бұрын

Lenco harvesters (Now AFE) make them, smallest I believe is the 5ft wide version but they make bigger as well. Schulte (now Giant) make a good picker too. all are on YT.

tip. at 1:06 you can see and hear that the chains on the top of the machine is slipping and skipping the gears now and then, and we can also see that the chains is jumping up/down when it happen. You need to shorten the top chains on both sides on the side of the machine so the chain get more stiff so it cannot skip the gear all the time to avoid wear and tear and damage. Also when chains get work out they often stretch and is x cm longer than when they where new this can also be a factor that increses if a chain slip on the gear or not. Now a days many machines often have an extra smaller gear that are there on the middle of the chain to push it in and tighten it either via a manual setting or via a spring system this help stop the chain from slipping over the gear. ( example on combiners ). I am not familiar with the specific rock picker in the video but on many machines there are typical an adjustment screw system that allow you to stretch the chain so it get a more firm grip so it cannot skip the gear. But els nice video and thanks for making it. ;-)

If I did this on our property there wouldn’t be nothing left

I am in awe!

Nice running ford.thats a lota rocks

amazing! that ole ford made it all the way through the video without breaking down! never happen on the ranch I worked on!

@GARDENER42

26 күн бұрын

I ran a (UK built) 4wd Ford 5000 six years, 40 hours a week with zero mechanical issues, unlike the two Ford cars I owned...

Looks like it works pretty good!

An actual clever box of rocks!

Those old Fords are real work horses, Hard to believe they went out of business.

@tommarple1449

3 жыл бұрын

My brother call it “Tug Boat”!

@thegreenerthemeaner

2 жыл бұрын

Ford was getting into trouble on the vehicle side and the disastrous 80s in the Farming community didn't help anyone. They bought New Holland and the Versatile to try and gain market share. Ford then sold it to Fiat. When the manufacturing agreements that came with it expired, you saw a huge change in machine design. The only thing left from Ford is the paint color. New Holland is in joint venture with Case IH.

This is fantastic mate!!!

Holy shit that is working amazingly!!!

enjoyed this video thanks !!!!

Excellent machine

@tommarple1449

Жыл бұрын

Works great as long as you don't get a huge rock stuck in it!

Good job man, I had never see one in particular as advanced manufacturing in farming industry of (Rock picker) nice still needs to develop it and also company’s can buy it as invention.

The problem is ploughing the fields, especially if the soil is shallow, and the ploughing is deep... But really satisfying to look at

Very clever ,provides an additional crop each year

Sure is great to see the rocks leave the field. You could never do that by hand.

Looks like your having a good harvest.

Looks like you got some farmland in your rockpile.

Story I heard is, he's still out there to this very day, one strip at a time. Every time they plant it, more rocks.

I'm in Maine,so I know what you're up against.I swear the rocks here breed!

That rock picker was made by Dalman Manufacturing, Braham Minnesota

Good job Man👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Pretty cool idea

Very good job of keeping

hmm, a couple I-beams, and old car differential and drive shaft and some large-long drive chains. I would add in a couple more chains and put some of those conical teeth they use in those ditch grinders. It might help bust up hard pan and maybe get rocks up the sifter belt better? Maybe a remote hydraulic latch on the rock bin too and make the bottom/ back of it more like a a root/rock bucket to let dirt sift out.

@tommarple1449

Жыл бұрын

Wish you were here to do those adjustments! 😃

Darn a bumper crop of rocks.

That's awesome!

Now if you could fit a crusher to the rear and return the stone as minerals, most crushed stone is very good for plants

Awesome

That looks like it works really awesome. But it would be great if you could give us a play by play of the machine and how it works more up close. Thanks for posting though

@gs1100ed

2 жыл бұрын

I agree! I would like to see the dump mechanism up close too.

Very rocky field!

That 6000 is clean. My uncle bought one new in 1968 but to many transmissions problems so the dealer took it back and got a 5000 row crop. It’s still in the family...

@tcwaterdrill

4 жыл бұрын

Yes only one farmer in our area bought a 6000 Ford back in those days, he got the word out fast about the problems that he had with it. Saved a lots of us from buying one. That style tractor just faded away. Not to sure any was still running today. The 5000 was a great tractor.

@tommarple1449

4 жыл бұрын

@@tcwaterdrill We have two. Both work great!

@farmerboybill

4 жыл бұрын

@@tcwaterdrill The Select-o-speed power shift transmission was bad, from my understanding. If you got one with the regular transmission, it was a pretty reliable. Interesting fact - the engineer that designed the Select-o-speed told Ford it was not ready for use yet, but Ford pushed it into production. The engineer went to work for John Deere with the condition that they allow him to get it right. He did, and the John Deere 8 speed powershift that came out in the mid 60's was as reliable as any transmission out there. I have two 40 series tractors with 8 speed powershifts. They lack for speed options, but are totally relaible.

@tommarple1449

4 жыл бұрын

farmerboybill these two work great. My brother calls this one “Tugboat”.

@tommarple1449

4 жыл бұрын

They had the bugs worked out by 1965 when the Commander came out.

That apears to be a home made unit!

@greggergen9104

3 жыл бұрын

That was my thought because of the automobile universal joint.

@ryanforbes3021

3 жыл бұрын

There are a ton of those rock pickers in parts of New Brunswick, Canada. Made by a few different companies.

Nice tractor implement.

We called rock picking a picnic!

Beautiful 😆

I would love to have that rock picker

I need one of those pickers

Great to see! We are also using a Ford Commander 6000. I like your potato digger/rock picker design; we have a Rock-O-Matic TM12 rake and 546 reel type rock picker but don’t get the dirt separated as well as with the potato digger chain conveyor.

@tommarple1449

2 жыл бұрын

My brother calls this diesel Commander “Tugboat”! It pulls a 5 bottom plow and a 13 foot harrow!!! We have another gas Commander as well.

@tommarple1449

2 жыл бұрын

Good to hear that there’s other Commanders out there still in service!!! :)

@LionheartedDan

2 жыл бұрын

@@tommarple1449 Thanks for replying to my comment. Let me know if I could help in some way with your Ford Commander 6000.

I have never seen something like that...pretty badass.

@leskerik7321

3 жыл бұрын

Where do I find one of these ?

People pay good money to have those rocks in the gardens.

You could get different pitch chains for those potato harvesters, 50mil being common, and then you could lift certain size and leave the rest. Of course the marketing people told the consumer they were baby potatoes and sold them for more. Just sayin' if your going to grow the rocks you should have the market . You can add shaker idlers if you are carrying too much soil. You could hang a length of conveyor belting just above the apron to hold round rocks down and reduce roll back. If there is clearance between the blade and chain you could add one or two hard surfaced angle iron or rubber paddles, depending on soil, to get the stubborn ones to the top.

@tommarple1449

3 жыл бұрын

Do you know where to get the rubber paddles?

@duncanwatson7297

3 жыл бұрын

The round or paddle rubber links on potato harvesters are not for the primary chain that runs in the soil. The paddles are used on side elevator and truck loading boom. You would get a few with the ends worn to the point where the farmer would donate them. Then cut and weld to make links that fit your chain. Sure there won't be rubber near you welds but should be enough to carry the round rocks up. They will wear fast. But I think you're only doing a few acres ?

Love those Tractors.

Well it’s taken 67 years before I’ve saw one of these fock pickers. Looks like it does a damn good job. I could have put this to work more than once.

Great commodity to sell or crush and put in a driveway

It is great machine. I grow up in time when was hand pick up. Our grand worked hard to make fields what you can see today.

Amazing.....

Вот это урожай!!)))

Good job and you've plenty of stones to clear 👀, ........If you run a spud ridger through the field first, it leaves baulks which are a lot easier on the stone separators and draft tractor

Cripes, that place used to be a rock farm!

Nice machine

Very nice ❤

He is growing. Those rocks. We fertilize ours& they are bigger!!! Pap

That rock picker works well …need to find something like that

I didn't know a ford could pull that much weight.

Bravo !!

Is a very good work.

Damm thats a lot of rocks, would make a huge difference to your field to have then gone

The war on rocks is never ending.

@tommarple1449

Жыл бұрын

It sure is good get get rid of them!!! 😃

Thing works good 👍

those "potato miner" style rock pickers seem to be the best for really rocky fields. The "janitor bucket reels" seem to work best when you are gathering up rocks from the last couple years of frost heave, or when you have already put rocks in a windrow. I expect that id you are in places where there was any glacier coverage that you are going to want the potato miner.

@tommarple1449

Жыл бұрын

Yes, tons of rocks here in Maine. The glaciers definitely piled them up!

It is a potatoe harvester in Australia

My garden is like that by the time I get all the rocks out I will need a ladder to get down to the garden.

@malcolmmeer9761

4 жыл бұрын

Heck with the garden start filling with water

@beckywatt5048

4 жыл бұрын

UPGardenr I've seen a pasture you could walk at least half way across w/o touching the ground .

That might make a hell of a tater picker too !

@johndowe7003

4 жыл бұрын

That's probably what it is meant for

I Love it

Rock around-the-clock

I picked rocks on a farm in North Dakota. I swear it should have been a cash crop.

Very interesting harvesting rocks keep up the good work gentleman lovely video adios from Santa Fe nm

@tommarple1449

3 жыл бұрын

It seems that they keep growing new ones every year!!! 😀

Zonde van die stenen zijn pure mineralen

What brand / model of potato digger is your piece of equipment? Its doing a great job of picking up rocks. Looks like the rocks in my fields.

Super. 👍

The Round Rock will beat the dirt clods out

Çok güzel elerinize sağlık başarılar dilerim.

Not a bad little auld machine atall

Toppen maskin. 😊😊😊😊😊

With that much rock it might be faster to use a grain-vac to pull the dirt off and then just use a loader to remove the rocks before putting the dirt back.

@bigears4426

2 жыл бұрын

You might laugh but i knew a farmer that stripped the paddock of soil then removed the rocks bolders , and then returned the soil , he did this for a hay paddock rather than buying in , probably 50 acres

@brad3378

Жыл бұрын

I don't remember the name, but there's a company that makes a machine that separates the rocks from the dirt and somehow puts both back with the dirt on top.

Wao amazing machine in 1965

There has got to be some one that could use all those rocks. Even a rock crusher could size them for some type construction somewhere... Thumbs Up!

@EthanPDobbins

10 ай бұрын

Used to be that they would use rocks like these to "steel" roadways. Instead of pavement they would put down rocks.

I like that tractor

Duffy Ag back in NY State needs this on one of his fields. Problem is he is renting it so the guy would say thankee vera much. It breaks his seeding and haying equipment so this thing would do well. The chain needs a bouncyer path up to the bin.

I can build it all in my head, but what is the web?

Little modifications and you could dig potatoes with that

Strange thing is next year more stones will appear after plowing.

works just as good if not better than a modern day rock picker

Must be money in growing rocks

Exlent simply superb how much cost this mishan