Looks good guys! We are going to do a rock raking video here shortly on out channel as well.

We did that the old fashioned way, with 8 kids, a wagon and tractor. That's a neat implement.

Great ambiance music and production. No flash clips anymore please 😅 Neat tools as well. Going to be doing a little bit of land management as well so thanks bro. 🍻

Growing and harvesting rocks! All organic!

Thank you for explaining about the plastic.

Love it brings back good memories, sitting on the David Brown 990 pulling a tree furrow Clough plough ,ploughing maize field’s for my father in the school holidays.

problem is,,,,after the first round or two, you are now accumulating all the previous rocks into an ever increasing row that quickly becomes more than the unit can handle. AND it only gets surface rocks so as soon as you plow the first time, you pull up more rocks and have the problem all over again. they make rock pickers that go deeper into plowed ground that picks up all soil and screens it to get out every rock deep down on the first pass. It goes slower and takes more energy but it solves the problem with only one application

Own my own rock rake as well and done a tremendous amount of rock removal. It's designed along the same principle. I raked one way and then back from the other way to create one big wind row. Raking multiple swathes causes loss of rocks in low spots. Eventually, what worked best for me was, after the big wind rows was to have 3 guys in front of the tractor bucket with silage forks. Whatever fell thru the forks stayed on the ground. It saved a lot of backs while still eliminating the harmful rocks to crop growth and equipment damage. Eventually, after all that, on areas of extreme rock removal, I built a skid with an expended metal 3/4 inch at a 45° angle and a concrete vibration motor. It involves a lot of manual labor but well worth it for a small refined garden spot. A small trailer can be used instead of a skid and the bottom removed and replaced with the same 3/4 inch expanded metal on a 45° angle and the concrete vibration motor. The soil HAS to be completely dry and vegetative material absent to work well. I kept the soil tilled till the vegetation degraded. It can also be done by burning the area in spring to remove much of the vegetation and using roundup or other herbicide to keep vegetation at bay while trying to clean the area.

Dad always talked a time where they tried one out. He said they had a road after they were done and had to dig it up again and of course they had more rocks. 10-20 years later we went to notill and spray the rocks :)

wish i had this as a kid. I spent summers picking rocks out of fields here in S.C.

So glad we don’t have those issues in the south. Take care and have a blessed day.

Excellent video quality. Definitely a rocking video.

Your videos are getting better and better Mac Farms. I'm loving the videos 👍! Greeting from Wolfville Nova Scotia🙂

I really like this machine. Tennessee needs lots of them.

I don't miss everything about farming but I miss dirt work really bad most days.

farmer playing EDM. Worth it.

That Rocks!

We use to get all the high school kids over for a rock party and hand pick em.

Anything that has "-o-matic" in its name HAS to be great!

Keep on rocking 😃👍

We had one just like that back on the ranch 40 years ago.

That thing rocks.

We have the very same rock rake.There is a chain on the one side that can break. We broke ours. Rock picking is part of our life and it seems others as well.

Thanks for shareing

I like how it picks up and sorts the rocks, like a soil conditioner.....LOL

Cool machine.

Those rock rakes work good. Our neighbour has one it's a Degelman. You will be able to build a monument saying here once stood the proud country of Canada. Thanks for the video update eh.

That’s awesome! I just pulled a rock rake out that hasn’t been used since the late 1980’s

That’s a great implement!

Good thing you have baby rocks there. I am going to edit this to say that we have a saying here that goes like this, "the only thing that field grows is rocks". But, I am talking 20-50-200 pound rocks.

We use a Harley Rake (attachment on a skidsteer) on jobsites before planting grass. Works wonders for smoothing, leveling dirt and removing rocks.

Well works good, probably could use a power wash to find all the hydraulic leaks and a grease job plus another unit to pull behind this one good luck well done 👍

Rake works good and is a simple design. We tried the biodegradable black plastic with our pumpkins, and all it did was start to break down, and then blew all over every where lol

Thank You Nice Place There

You can buy a rock crusher for a tractor and make gravel,rocks,cement,asphalt and old bricks.Greetings from Chanute,Kansas.

I didnt know you could rake rocks like that. Our soil is so fine and dusty that if we hit it with one of those things, the topsoil could be seen from space.

Ours is hydraulic...you're going 2x faster then what we can. Makes an incredible land leveler. We use ours to make pads and driveways.

my great grandfather went to buy a farm , the realtor showed him one that was nothing but rocks ! grand daddy said that has too many rocks , the realtor said rock hold moisture , grand daddy said that field may be to wet to plow !

I finished the video for the song! But also your property is pretty sweet!!

My dad would just giggle to himself and send my brothers and I out there with pails... Rock picking was the go to punishment when we were scrapping. Couldn't come back till the pile was big enough

great machine

It is a tossup with this rock picking stuff, 1 implement/ 1 job, or 1 pass high efficiency like a combine. I setups that have rakes like this poking out either side with a converted potato or sugar beet harvester picking up in the middle or one side and sifting the rocks into a bin/ discharge chute. The rotary rakes do the best job of gathering rock if their teeth are done in a spiral like on this one. All of the holding bins could use a slat bottom and vibrator to shale dirt out the bottom. All the unloading belts need to be more like the original rattling conveyor to shake more dirt out. Even better would be a rock and stick breaker combine which would have a crushing chamber on the back to turn the rocks into sand and the sticks into slivers so you have a compost to be scattered as you go.

Thats a great system for small HP machines.

Great to see a David Brown in the US!

Do you rake all the stones one way across the land until you end up with a dry stone wall along the edge of the field or are they collected up and then dumped somewhere? Excellent video quality, thanks.

G'day cool rock rake mate.

I like the music, but its not really farming music hahaha. It took me a second to realize how it worked as well. Kinda interesting

they make a conveyor over grates that fills rock spuds into bin quite quick fill now. It looks sturdy though well old school built.

I need to get a rock rake. My seed salesman said he didn't like them because it pulverized his soil into a fine powder, and then the next rain made it lock up like cement. I'm willing to take that chance.

The height of the debt . Got it !

Also works great for a little tillage work

looks more like triple function rocks, roots and float the field at the same time.

I was moaning one day about my rocks in Pretoria, my neighbor said stop complaining, do you know what rocks cost if you have to buy them, lol

Just the rocks on the surface

awesome harvest of rocks this year! any big plans for them?

Good choice of music

How does one ultimately remove the rocks? This looked to move rocks inward. Is the center more rocket now?

Lots of rocks. Do you do that each year. Or what is the schedule for removing rocks Scott.

So, once you windrow all the rocks to the middle of the field, do you come back with a backhoe and bury them? It struck me that I think I would start in the middle of the field an move the rock windrow to the outside of the field.

Degelman has been building rock rakes since the 1970s.

Are you making a surface and deep pass or the opposite. Is there a method asside from just hayraking the rocks?

good Muzak ^^

what's the horsepower needed to run it? would it be worth while trying to run in a heavy clay type field?

So what did you do after you raked them into the middle of the strip?

Vilken skitmaskin! Hälften ramlar ju bakom!

Yes definitely on the next level down, not upwards.

You raked the rocks , but how do you pick them up ??

It’s almost like that song was written for your rake lol

Where are your hearing protectors? Corn after corn?

I am assuming you are growing corn for your milk cows. How much of that 'biodegradable' plastic does the harvester suck up when it creates your silage that you feed your cows?

Do you have to do this every time you till up the soil?

If those tines were thinner, longer, and higher off the ground, that would make a pretty decent wind rower.

What, no country music? Actually it's good to see someone playing dance music. I see tractor videos from India playing country music. Yes, I am Mr. Stereotype.

NICE, IS THE DIRT, RUST, GRIME AND ADD ON OR A STANDARD FEATURE

I believe that field with qualified as a stone quarries

Picked to many rocks to not appreciate a rock rake. Corn not as bad as on grain and hay fields. A couple of rocks in an expensive piece of equipment and a rock rake and picker is paid for.

Dang, ya sure got sme rocky ground, for sure. Ya need a rock picker

Will you do a video of how the hydraulics work and where they connect for the loader and the rear hydraulic remotes. I have 2 diesel 885s and a 3800 selectamatic but none of them have hydraulic hoses that I can find. Thanks!

Can I attach a rock picker to a kubota bx1880? Thanks

324: looks like it needs 2 drums not just 1.

How well does that machine work? Doesn't seem to go very deep.

How can I get one and how much does it cost?

What kind of camera are you using?

Interesting,a second and maybe a third rake in line could be beneficial. A lot of face time.

Most Bioplastics, Photodegradable plastics (like seen in this video), and Oxydegradable plastics still create plastic microparticles whose impact on the environment isn't positive, nor well understood. Caveat Emptor: "Some biodegradable plastics actually fragment rather than biodegrade. This is due to the addition of oxidising agents (found in so-called oxo-degradable plastics). By fragmenting, rather than degrading, they break into small pieces which can pollute soils, increase the risk of ingestion for animals and ends up in our oceans and waterways. These kinds of plastics are impossible to recover for recycling and aren’t suitable for composting."

Need one in Nevada

How about some info? How effective is it? How much does it cost? Does need to be done once or annually or biannually? How much time does it take per acre to accomplish the rock moving? How are the resulting hedge rows of rock collected? A lot of unanswered questions…

Nice rake. That’s one thing I’m glad we don’t have here. Now I’m interested in the putting plastic down for corn? Nice drone shots. Beautiful area. Have a good one

Who or how is the rock row removed?

This is same as the Canadian Degelman. wow your using a English made David Brown - Case tractor.

You guys have baby rocks mine are bigger than wheeled on tractor

Matic!?!? Always wondered what Rocko's last name was!!!

Why do you plant your corn under plastic?

Where does all this plastic come from?

Rocks don’t look like the actual problem, silage wrap and crop covering detritus cleaning would be more beneficial & a hit video I expect..

Shouldn't those rear wheels be turning ?

Is this in 4K it’s so clear

not sure but it looked your back tires were locking up

What a good way of just wasteing diesel

Appears not to go very deep like the new ones.