1966 Ford 6000 Commander with Rock Picker 9/2019

Expanding our garlic field. New ground. Lots of rocks! Thank God we have this!!!

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  • @jeffbriggs4268
    @jeffbriggs42682 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @GalaxianGamer
    @GalaxianGamer9 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @omtechxl
    @omtechxl2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @hoopoo3721
    @hoopoo37212 жыл бұрын

    One of the best rock pickers designs ever created

  • @billbixby977

    @billbixby977

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @EthanPDobbins

    @EthanPDobbins

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @davedave8073
    @davedave80732 жыл бұрын

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

  • @joewoodchuck3824
    @joewoodchuck38244 жыл бұрын

    I love seeing the older equipment being maintained and used.

  • @SKFortyseven3277

    @SKFortyseven3277

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me too!

  • @AutoCrete

    @AutoCrete

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @robertlivingston1634
    @robertlivingston16345 ай бұрын

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

  • @aideningram434
    @aideningram4342 жыл бұрын

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

  • @user-cm5nh1sb9h
    @user-cm5nh1sb9h5 ай бұрын

    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. ;-)

  • @joselira9076
    @joselira9076 Жыл бұрын

    That is pretty damn Ingenious engineering

  • @GenAfterNextTactics
    @GenAfterNextTactics2 жыл бұрын

    Love the way that Ford sounds.

  • @carlosfinlay874
    @carlosfinlay874 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent machine

  • @tommarple1449

    @tommarple1449

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @davewood406
    @davewood4065 күн бұрын

    Looks like you got some farmland in your rockpile.

  • @rainbowboa100
    @rainbowboa10028 күн бұрын

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

  • @GARDENER42

    @GARDENER42

    16 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...

  • @markgamble8377
    @markgamble83772 жыл бұрын

    Nice running ford.thats a lota rocks

  • @1607rosie
    @1607rosie2 жыл бұрын

    Pretty cool idea

  • @chaplainand1
    @chaplainand12 жыл бұрын

    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

    @tommarple1449

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, this actually is a potato harvester.

  • @rileyhogan8248

    @rileyhogan8248

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Tinkerbell227

    @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.

  • @woodhonky3890
    @woodhonky38904 жыл бұрын

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

  • @paulmaxwell8851
    @paulmaxwell88512 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @FlyingSeaMan256
    @FlyingSeaMan256Ай бұрын

    Holy shit that is working amazingly!!!

  • @madtater5948
    @madtater59482 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ronlawrence5021
    @ronlawrence50212 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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

    @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.

  • @FyL43
    @FyL43Ай бұрын

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

  • @barakhamahmoud1918
    @barakhamahmoud19182 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @robertbush7290
    @robertbush72903 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tommarple1449

    @tommarple1449

    3 жыл бұрын

    My brother call it “Tug Boat”!

  • @thegreenerthemeaner

    @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.

  • @TrevorStruthers
    @TrevorStruthers4 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @oby-1607
    @oby-16072 жыл бұрын

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

  • @louielouiepks
    @louielouiepks2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @waynebrokke5184
    @waynebrokke51842 жыл бұрын

    That rock picker was made by Dalman Manufacturing, Braham Minnesota

  • @ericlindal8008
    @ericlindal800811 ай бұрын

    Awesome

  • @mrfarmall-vk4gw
    @mrfarmall-vk4gw4 жыл бұрын

    Looks like it works pretty good!

  • @markmorris3579
    @markmorris35793 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MedusalObligation
    @MedusalObligation3 жыл бұрын

    An actual clever box of rocks!

  • @dennishuntley7688
    @dennishuntley76882 жыл бұрын

    Looks like your having a good harvest.

  • @lisafisher8081
    @lisafisher80813 жыл бұрын

    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

    @gs1100ed

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gulabkhan2639
    @gulabkhan26392 жыл бұрын

    Very good job of keeping

  • @dennishettinger4469
    @dennishettinger44694 жыл бұрын

    enjoyed this video thanks !!!!

  • @dennisschoenaurer4152
    @dennisschoenaurer41529 ай бұрын

    Great commodity to sell or crush and put in a driveway

  • @BFETile
    @BFETile3 жыл бұрын

    This is fantastic mate!!!

  • @kenyonbissett3512
    @kenyonbissett35123 жыл бұрын

    I am in awe!

  • @mr.redneck2715
    @mr.redneck27152 жыл бұрын

    We called rock picking a picnic!

  • @heartland96a
    @heartland96a4 жыл бұрын

    Very clever ,provides an additional crop each year

  • @stevenmetzger3385
    @stevenmetzger33852 жыл бұрын

    Very rocky field!

  • @ronforeman1790
    @ronforeman17906 күн бұрын

    Cripes, that place used to be a rock farm!

  • @brd1242
    @brd12424 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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

    @tommarple1449

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tcwaterdrill We have two. Both work great!

  • @farmerboybill

    @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

    @tommarple1449

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tommarple1449

    @tommarple1449

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bigears4426
    @bigears44262 жыл бұрын

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

  • @carlosmorgan8123
    @carlosmorgan81232 жыл бұрын

    Nice tractor implement.

  • @Mangsaab1954
    @Mangsaab195411 ай бұрын

    Rock around-the-clock

  • @bobhostetler8548
    @bobhostetler85484 жыл бұрын

    Darn a bumper crop of rocks.

  • @watchthe1369
    @watchthe1369 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @tommarple1449

    Жыл бұрын

    Wish you were here to do those adjustments! 😃

  • @sandrosandy5676
    @sandrosandy56764 жыл бұрын

    Good job Man👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @LionheartedDan
    @LionheartedDan2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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

    @tommarple1449

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @LionheartedDan

    @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.

  • @leebarnhart831
    @leebarnhart8313 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @amyyarak3302
    @amyyarak33022 жыл бұрын

    Zonde van die stenen zijn pure mineralen

  • @louielouiepks
    @louielouiepks2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tordvestman7897
    @tordvestman78972 жыл бұрын

    Is a very good work.

  • @duncanwatson7297
    @duncanwatson72973 жыл бұрын

    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

    @tommarple1449

    3 жыл бұрын

    Do you know where to get the rubber paddles?

  • @duncanwatson7297

    @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 ?

  • @kevinklingner3098
    @kevinklingner30984 жыл бұрын

    That apears to be a home made unit!

  • @greggergen9104

    @greggergen9104

    3 жыл бұрын

    That was my thought because of the automobile universal joint.

  • @ryanforbes3021

    @ryanforbes3021

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jefferyhopcus8300
    @jefferyhopcus83003 жыл бұрын

    I need one of those pickers

  • @alexeygorsky
    @alexeygorsky3 жыл бұрын

    Вот это урожай!!)))

  • @jamescline6937
    @jamescline69373 жыл бұрын

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

  • @daleolson3506
    @daleolson35062 жыл бұрын

    Nice machine

  • @KlineFarmchannel
    @KlineFarmchannel3 жыл бұрын

    I would love to have that rock picker

  • @brd1242
    @brd12424 жыл бұрын

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

  • @leskerik7321

    @leskerik7321

    3 жыл бұрын

    Where do I find one of these ?

  • @davidflanagan3396
    @davidflanagan33963 жыл бұрын

    It is a potatoe harvester in Australia

  • @markward6076
    @markward6076 Жыл бұрын

    The war on rocks is never ending.

  • @tommarple1449

    @tommarple1449

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @dariushhaghighi7303
    @dariushhaghighi73032 ай бұрын

    Very nice ❤

  • @watchthe1369
    @watchthe1369 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @tommarple1449

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @lorenmeyer5290
    @lorenmeyer52903 жыл бұрын

    That's awesome!

  • @fatzlebowski1549
    @fatzlebowski15493 жыл бұрын

    Love those Tractors.

  • @rakeshdasan
    @rakeshdasan4 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful 😆

  • @UPGardenr
    @UPGardenr4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @malcolmmeer9761

    4 жыл бұрын

    Heck with the garden start filling with water

  • @beckywatt5048

    @beckywatt5048

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @slange455
    @slange4552 жыл бұрын

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

  • @born2soon
    @born2soon2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @georgewhite7694
    @georgewhite76943 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @markfiges999
    @markfiges9993 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @johnt7232
    @johnt72323 жыл бұрын

    Not a bad little auld machine atall

  • @chrisswin8976
    @chrisswin89763 жыл бұрын

    The Round Rock will beat the dirt clods out

  • @phuongvynguyen1727
    @phuongvynguyen17273 жыл бұрын

    Amazing.....

  • @lonnienambe6939
    @lonnienambe69392 жыл бұрын

    Sir you still growing rock love the video hope you all survived covid adios from Santa fe new. Mexico stay safe my friend

  • @landlifem5872
    @landlifem58724 жыл бұрын

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

  • @lonnienambe6939
    @lonnienambe69393 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tommarple1449

    @tommarple1449

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gary24752
    @gary247523 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ramrupa9619
    @ramrupa96194 жыл бұрын

    Exlent simply superb how much cost this mishan

  • @jimmysmith9957
    @jimmysmith99574 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @prjndigo
    @prjndigo2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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

    @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.

  • @toddjacobs5660
    @toddjacobs56603 жыл бұрын

    Thing works good 👍

  • @topmaquinaria34
    @topmaquinaria343 жыл бұрын

    Bravo !!

  • @celaldemir
    @celaldemir3 жыл бұрын

    Çok güzel elerinize sağlık başarılar dilerim.

  • @zahoorahmed5059
    @zahoorahmed50594 жыл бұрын

    Hi is this machine still available in the markets and how can I get one

  • @JanErikWeijnblad
    @JanErikWeijnblad Жыл бұрын

    Toppen maskin. 😊😊😊😊😊

  • @skeets6060
    @skeets60604 жыл бұрын

    That might make a hell of a tater picker too !

  • @johndowe7003

    @johndowe7003

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's probably what it is meant for

  • @pudendajohnson1932
    @pudendajohnson19323 жыл бұрын

    I like that tractor

  • @donjuan6324
    @donjuan63243 жыл бұрын

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

  • @user-br4dc1vl5h
    @user-br4dc1vl5h3 жыл бұрын

    عمل موفق راجعت الفيديو عشرات المرات. الآلة لقمة الاتقان .ياريت تتحرك علينا فيديو جديد عن قرب الآلة ومحتوياتها مشكور . اخوكم من الجزاءر،

  • @tommarple1449

    @tommarple1449

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wish that I could read that, but thanks for the comments! 😀

  • @wasimrashid2529

    @wasimrashid2529

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tommarple1449 what’s the price and capacity of this tug boat? Thank you

  • @wasimrashid2529

    @wasimrashid2529

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tommarple1449 how deep can get rocks from the top surface?

  • @kevinmccarthy6862
    @kevinmccarthy68623 жыл бұрын

    Tom, I love your rock picker. I would like to have a way to get in contact with you and see about buying the plans and materials list to build one for my 316 acres. Great job, great video, great KZread Channel. I did like, subscribe, shared and rang the notification bell, that you so very much again.

  • @tommarple1449

    @tommarple1449

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi Kevin. Checkout www.eat more garlic.net

  • @garymucher9590
    @garymucher95903 жыл бұрын

    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

    @EthanPDobbins

    9 ай бұрын

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

  • @Lexdex1111
    @Lexdex11114 жыл бұрын

    I Love it

  • @arvidsbrivers7601
    @arvidsbrivers76014 жыл бұрын

    Super. 👍

  • @fredshulmire5491
    @fredshulmire54914 жыл бұрын

    Little modifications and you could dig potatoes with that