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

@familyfarmlife

Жыл бұрын

Ya…. I wish they’d just stop😂

@micahsattler1268

Жыл бұрын

@@familyfarmlife what part of Texas?

@Bowfinger6383

Жыл бұрын

@@micahsattler1268 the rocky part, obviously 😜

@sina892

Жыл бұрын

​@@Bowfinger6383 🤭

@mcduck5

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

pheromone???

@silentmayan5427

Жыл бұрын

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

@khaleddoudechnumber1473

Жыл бұрын

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

@dangerm52

Жыл бұрын

​@@khaleddoudechnumber1473 r/whoosh

@silentmayan5427

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@murkyturkey5238

Жыл бұрын

Exactly 😂

@cowmann3555

10 ай бұрын

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

@JosephBallinin313

7 ай бұрын

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

@ddoubleg

6 ай бұрын

Fr 😂😂😅……

@lauraparker6301

5 ай бұрын

​@@cowmann3555😂😂😂 exactly

8500 acres is like a whole damn county 😭😭

@thegreenerthemeaner

6 ай бұрын

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

@chriscarter5846

4 ай бұрын

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

@Shervan96

3 ай бұрын

@PequenoPipothat farm is almost as big as Spain lol

@deadknuckles6346

3 ай бұрын

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

@nathanholy

2 ай бұрын

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

The rock harvest seems great this year.

@MagnakayViolet

Жыл бұрын

The rock farm dream in reality 😂

@PinkPoo

Жыл бұрын

Yum

@Mrmarcus501

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@DataLog

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know you could grow rocks.

@AgzagaSocial

4 ай бұрын

LOL

Damn, 8500 acres is massive.

@gagegriffith3308

Жыл бұрын

Yeah ridding that much land of rocks would be impossible

@Adamu98

Жыл бұрын

Crazy thing theres bigger farms in the great plains states.

@mikebastiat

Жыл бұрын

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

@lyndahammond8883

Жыл бұрын

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

@sheldonsimon4484

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@matthunt7390

Жыл бұрын

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

@griffithwes0074

11 ай бұрын

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

@tomsfruitstand6821

11 ай бұрын

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

@thelonelystankmuncher8879

10 ай бұрын

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

@rexx2338

10 ай бұрын

​@@thelonelystankmuncher8879what's your job

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

10 ай бұрын

For sure they are not without season workers

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

Жыл бұрын

12 ton truck in a day !! 💀

@tjsbbi

Жыл бұрын

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

@bluntly-

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

@spartoiss488

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@lilsteroids619

Жыл бұрын

Why though??

@DTux5249

Жыл бұрын

​@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

@icantgetdubs2433

Жыл бұрын

Maybe cuz u got 500+ likes dumb ahhh

@kitsune.u4ea

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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.

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

10 ай бұрын

Sounds like my dad.

@mercytowers2221

6 ай бұрын

Lovely story of a hard working farmer.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@larryrunnels1190

Жыл бұрын

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

@calebverdu3091

Жыл бұрын

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

@larryrunnels1190

Жыл бұрын

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

@calebverdu3091

Жыл бұрын

@@larryrunnels1190 Oh for sure.

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

@thcall6441

Жыл бұрын

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

@bfuryy

Жыл бұрын

We live on a big rock

@shelleyoxenhorn833

Жыл бұрын

Philadelphia too

@rongray4118

Жыл бұрын

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

@rotunda57

Жыл бұрын

They fall from the sky at night

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!!❤❤❤❤

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

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

@erbewayne6868

Жыл бұрын

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

@FastHouseracing

Жыл бұрын

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

@woozii.capalot

Жыл бұрын

How do they get there?

@FastHouseracing

Жыл бұрын

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

@FastHouseracing

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@ameliaestrada8023

Жыл бұрын

Where do they come from

@couchpotatoes5158

Жыл бұрын

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

@kaedensokay

Жыл бұрын

MA farmers represent!

@cjd2275

Жыл бұрын

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

@kgw100

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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

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

@darnelljackson2160

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

Hey I found another North Idaho farm boy!

@darnelljackson2160

Жыл бұрын

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

@jimzimprich6969

Жыл бұрын

@@DirtbikesAndMore P.F. ? You ?

@20102010b

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

@b.c.4902

Жыл бұрын

😂

@CampfireRachael

Жыл бұрын

This is a fire idea

@joseyabut4688

Жыл бұрын

Now your property 😅

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

@cooper8318

Жыл бұрын

They are. By feeding them

@garettdoornwaard4822

Жыл бұрын

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

@MichelleRougier

Жыл бұрын

@@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

10 ай бұрын

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

@lanceholder4131

10 ай бұрын

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

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

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

@ozzy_fromhell

Жыл бұрын

8 acres sounds like a lot brother

@liebendeinsam

Жыл бұрын

​@@ozzy_fromhell sounds like only. 😂

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

@kitsune.u4ea

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@ItsJustGravy

Жыл бұрын

@Kitsùne they appear out of nowhere I swear 😆

@skylaninaction

Жыл бұрын

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

@ItsJustGravy

Жыл бұрын

@@skylaninaction builds character.

Yup!!! Same here in Queensland 🤜🏾🤜🏾🤜🏾

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

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

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

@matthewcullen1298

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

This happens almost everywhere people farm

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

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

Bro this was my childhood

@scotmandel6699

Жыл бұрын

Same here in South Dakota. Milking cows was worse.

My father-in-law did that back in the late 1930’s and 1940’s. The rock walls they made still stand in Central Texas.

@druginducedfeverdream1613

Жыл бұрын

They'll likely stand for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. North Britain, Scotland and Ireland have lots and lots of very old walls made of rocks. Flint and slate mostly, I think, but they've been standing for a veeeery long time. Very solid too, quite bad for who ever collides with one. Being from Texas and Britain myself this is super cool to hear there are old walls in Texas. Maybe that could be a business to get into for people who have the money, here let's build an aesthetic rock wall that can't be moved once it's done 😂

@Morhaw

Жыл бұрын

The dry stone granite walls in West Cornwall are 2-5 thousand years old. We have a stone burial chamber called chûn quoit dated to 1500BC. But then I live in a place where my house is older than your country

@milbruh6671

Жыл бұрын

​@@druginducedfeverdream1613 yes, there is a burial site in Ireland that is over 5000 years old made out of stone. Newgrange its called

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

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

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

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

Жыл бұрын

Only a Ferguson could find the rock grabber….

@benp3485

Жыл бұрын

Where are these rocks coming from? 😮

Uncle was right ! John did farm rocks 😂😂

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@garymurt9112

Жыл бұрын

@Nothing Nothing sounds like southern Missouri

@juleshunter9214

Жыл бұрын

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

@garymurt9112

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@torrycole6477

Жыл бұрын

Lemmon S.D. ?

Normal annual task here in Michigan too

Bro needs a big offroad skateboard to get towed around 😂

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@electrocanman

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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

I would love to visit your farm one day hopefully.

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

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.

You ain't seen rocks like we got in Connecticut! We got rocks!

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.

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

@nczioox1116

Жыл бұрын

Probably water

What a blessing

Oh the weekend and school holiday fun as a kid

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@mgdwj

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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

Farmers are the real heros this Nation needs 🥰

America really got family farms bigger than whole countries

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

Lmaoo the guy that commented rocks breed more rocks 😂

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

@angelicamichelle1646

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@bobstark4020

Жыл бұрын

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

@timwenell63

Жыл бұрын

Against the wind!

@bobstark4020

Жыл бұрын

@Tim Wenell oh yeah, forgot that one.

@winkfinkerstien1957

Жыл бұрын

And it was uphill... Both ways! 😆

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

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

We built dry stone walls with the rocks in Yorkshire

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

Жыл бұрын

Deere all the way

@chrisnoname2725

Жыл бұрын

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

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".

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

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

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

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

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

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

@icantgetdubs2433

Жыл бұрын

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

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

I seen you guys one day in town😂

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

I feel you man it’s always a chore

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

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

What kind of seeds do you buy to grow rocks?

@familyfarmlife

Жыл бұрын

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

@juliancortez3250

Жыл бұрын

Pebbles

@danstark462

Жыл бұрын

Don't be igneous

@matthewcullen1298

Жыл бұрын

​@@danstark462 😂

@glp046

Жыл бұрын

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

Building a rock house for the rattlesnakes ⚡

The rock fields are bountiful as ever, have a blessed harvest

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.❤

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

@familyfarmlife

Жыл бұрын

$10 isn’t bad!

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

@erbewayne6868

Жыл бұрын

You were paid?

@HistoryGeek420

Жыл бұрын

@@erbewayne6868 you weren’t chained?

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

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

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

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

I spent countless hours picking up rocks on my grand patents and family's farms. It's good character building work

I remember when I was a kid I helped my dad pick rocks out of our garden. That was in Central Oregon. Luckily, our rocks were not that big!

The never ending struggle of farmers.

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.

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

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

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

If any of that is chert (flint) give me a jingle! Haha