Rocking picking in the snow?! 🤔😂

[@byamrcn]

There's something viscerally satisfying about watching rock picking. That thump in the basket, love it. Give us an all-day marathon!

[@raynonabohrer5624]

I started laughing when you said Kraken! You keep jumping out of the tractor. You must like the cold! Obviously you don't have arthritis do you. Great video I guess you must do something during the winter time. God bless you all.

[@farmmachineryfan856]

Let's just take a moment to appreciate how he has to stop his tractor so he can zoom in on the speed goats so that we can see them properly. Thanks for taking time for us Mike!

[@jannikk6556]

Excellent video, good Sir! The wide load was actually a part of a wind turbine tower, and if I’m not mistaken judging by the blue tarps on each end acutally a Vestas manufactured tower. A Danish company, that I used to work for. Nice to see that all the way overthere 🙂👍

[@marshallsmith3838]

Me: "This movie is boring, it's all action and no storyline." Also me: "Ooo, a 30 minute rock picking video! I'm in!" 😂😂

[@mikemitchell2554]

Hahaha 😂

[@jamesbainton]

The rock picking vids are so satisfying. I could seriously watch a few more of these vids.

[@wildlifecameraYT]

😂😂

[@scruffy6151]

The picking rock is reel live. "Yes I miss spelled real for a reason"

[@travishildebrandt975]

🤣

[@praiseyethelord7121]

Hi Mike, I am so amazed with you. You are a true farmer to your bones! You eat, drink and so love what you do. Your vlogs prove this. Thank you for the ride alongs! ❤&🙏 from central Pennsylvania 🎀 Merry Christmas 🎀

[@missterri8471]

Mike thanks for the video. I have farmed for 65 years just had major back surgery last Monday and cannot do anything for 6 - 8 weeks. Nothing worse for a farmer than not being able to do anything. When you used the term speed goats and later explained what that meant, I was laughing so hard my incision was hurting so bad. But a big thanks for the bit of joy in this video and your others. God bless and have a blessed Christma

[@mikemitchell2554]

Hey my dad also just had is 4th major back surgery, so I understand alitte bit what ur going through.. And Merry Christmas to you you as well! 🙂

[@hunsadersrockinranch]

I'm in Florida, a nice day outside and I find myself watching a farmer picking up rocks! WHY? I have no idea, but I like it!

[@mongoose1607]

Ahah I love how he asks questions and answers them in the video because sometimes I want to ask but he does it anyway keep it up man

[@acetic2]

Thank you for all the videos! I have learned a lot about farming & equipment in Saskatchewan... Which has been super helpful for me. Thanks :)

[@jonkreiser7757]

Mike you "ROCK"!!!!! When I grew up on the Farm we also used a Degelman rock picker as well but we one upped you Mike and had a 930 as our designated Rock Picking tractor. Just kidding about one upping our stone picker was ground driven and our tractor wasn't a Fendt it was a Case 930 Comfort king! (but don't be fooled about the comfort part)

[@corgraveland4874]

Nice to see the fields in wintertime, to me it worked pretty well with limited snow to find some rocks! Thanks for explanations. Can be cold out there with frost till 8 feet deep! Nice to see all the 'speed goats', Deere, Elk, etc., lots of them. As long as they don't discover your grain bag😮😉 Was a nice one Mike👍🚜

[@remb1500]

It looks like a lot of fun. Good excuse to drive the tractor around

[@Its_Me0000]

Thanks for showing the footage of the antelope. That was neat to see.

[@MattHuey]

Not gonna lie Mike....this looks kinda fun!!🤣🤣 Id be doin my whole Town if i had that tractor💯👍🤣🤣🚜🚜🚜

[@mickaelbissec7178]

What à great way to start the week-end to watch a Mike vidéo! 😀

[@brann1978]

Top work Mike. Love the channel and your sense of humour. 👌

[@brettbaumgarten]

I recognize both of those fields! I wish there’d was a video of you combining it like when you planted it!

[@mikemitchell2554]

That's the day the 10 didn't show back up.. So I was combine-less haha

[@Dan-yq7iu]

@@mikemitchell2554 are all combines y’all use the same brand?

[@maudepotvin8660]

Ohhh, less rock ! Another good point for no-till ! :D I Love No Till !!!! Our planet too !

[@johnrandazzo331]

I loved this video it had a little of everything and i got to see some speedgoats! We love it, Thank you!

[@Outlaw-er5hz]

Lol our frost line here in Western North Carolina is 18" couldn't imagine 8 ft. Still would love to live up north 🙏 maybe one day. Thanks for the videos and all the hard work you guys do to feed the world 🌎

[@rachelt2482]

Enjoyed the video Mike! Thanks for experimenting on the hill climb with us along. haha :)

[@kopenhagenkid]

Great video Mike good luck picking your rocks 🪨

[@kevinmorgan7444]

Hay Mike the oversized is a section of a wind mill. They have been coming through my town here in Montana pretty regularly heading north of course 😀 one of the drivers told me where but I can't remember.

[@mattheweberly1669]

Wife: honey do you want to go shopping with me, Me: hang on, Mike posted a new video, rock picking in the snow has to be better than the mall.

[@scruffy6151]

I agree

[@mikeznel6048]

Should go with the wife though. The video will be there when you get back, the wife might not be..

[@scruffy6151]

@@mikeznel6048 if she leave for someone else she not worth haven.

[@mattheweberly1669]

So I went shopping with my wife,

[@Myamericanlife61]

Love ya videos Mike you always keep them entertaining and funny 😁 just love the way you put them together South Dakota is some of the hillest combining I have ever done on the Diamond Ranch was so bad I have lost my way out there in the hills they had to come get with the grain cart at night time lol 😂 I was so lost

[@DocNo27]

A boy and his tractor - love the videos :)

[@uppsalahazzemarkstedt2759]

On some of the great Finnish rock picker-uppers you have a conveyor belt to empty on a truck or trailer. Then you don't have these "decentralized" rock heaps in your fields anymore, Mike. ;D

[@gavinperry7237]

Phone Call To Ashtyn goes like this. Sorry dear going to be getting home late so please delay supper because I am trying to pick rocks but things are going slower because rocks are covered by snow. Won’t starve to death because I have “Snacks Of Champions” Also trying to toboggan backwards down a hill. Having FUN. LOVE YOU See you when I get home unless I get STUCKEDED🤣😂

[@scruffy6151]

This is a good video to start the day.

[@wildlifecameraYT]

Probably the coolest job on the farm!

[@albertafarmer894]

Mike that big thing on the road is one part of a windmill lots here where we are.i don't know where those are headed but for the last two months there are wind mill blades passing right by our place and the pilot car driver said they are headed to Assiniboia Sask.Deere has laminated windshields now, they also cut down the cab noise quite a bit comparing the same machine with and without.

[@carelcarstens5627]

You are a big kid with nice toys haha i love it.

[@Senegal01]

SOB, wish my dad had that in the 1950's, instead of a stone-boat pulled behind the tractor, that dad drove and my brother and I rolled any rock we could into it!

[@claudreindl7275]

We had a stone boat too. One year a huge rock came up and my dad used dynamite to loosen it. We used a steel plate as a skid then get the boulder to the pasture fence line.

[@Senegal01]

@@claudreindl7275 Dynamite; my dad in the 50's used dynamite for stump removal! Did one in a Village outside Utica, NY for a home owner, well when dust settled, no stump anyplace. About two days later a guy about 10 house from the removal contacted about getting the F'ing stump out of his yard!!!!!!!! LOL

[@Its_Me0000]

"Speed Goats" that's an awesome nickname for antelope.

[@NeisenTransport]

Dude I'm dying..."oh yeah" Could watch you rock pick all day..lol

[@robkarloff]

Hi Mike, I was looking on Google Maps where Swift Current was, and I noticed there's also an Orkney to the south. I was visiting my parents at the weekend up in the Highlands in Scotland, where from my old junior school you look across the sea to the Orkney Islands. Wondering if the name comes from there! All the best to you all on the farm there :)

[@ray-grafterfoster8223]

Around where Mike lives there's a lot of places with Scottish names,.. I think Mike has said previously that his family, Mitchell, is of Scottish descendancy, so I guess a lot of emigrants settled in the prairies and gave homeland names..

[@musikmaan]

Canada is littered with Scottish nomenclature

[@dazed-williamsondigitalfar7183]

Has the burned-out combine been removed from the field yet and will you do a video on them picking it up? I have been curious about how they manage to load them up and get them out of the field.

[@mikemitchell2554]

It has not been removed yet, I don't know when they are coming for it.. Of course it's winter now, and you get down the roads to get to it

[@dazed-williamsondigitalfar7183]

@@mikemitchell2554 Thanks for the reply, have a good one! :)

[@bobbyflowers4859]

The wide load was a part of the wind generator tower.

[@slg792]

Keep on rocking in a free world!

[@stanleyjones4180]

new mike mitchell video my day just got better, thanks for the video mike

[@glenneby6903]

Just put tint on your window that's what I do on my tractors and sprayers, had a rock hit my back tractor window and that helps to not explode over you. Enjoy your videos stay safe

[@sasfarmer]

Swing the picker into transport when it is tough to go up the hill or have to back down. Also sometimes I swing the picker in a bit when the rock is too close to the tractor & normally can not get into picker .

[@davidsquall351]

Love how you engaged the 5 wheel drive feature in the snow drift..😂

[@ytfan3815]

4:30 .... " now I know what you're thinking, .... I know you guys have tons of questions .... Mike what the crap you're doing " 😂 😆

[@kevinmeyer3884]

Mike, the wide load was a windmill upright tube. Those are coming into the Port at Lewiston, Idaho and then there trucking north thru your area to somewhere up there. Read a story about them in the local paper. They are being manufactured in China. Shipped to Portland, then barged to Lewiston. Crazy huh!

[@AureFreePress]

Hi Mike.. You are a Rock Picking God ❤️ good thing you're not riding a 'deere' during deer season.. Sorry, couldn't resist 😂😂

[@ericjenjohnson]

What if you dumped your rocks in a neighbors rock pile? Wait this is Canada 🍁 that would never happen up there! Another fantastic video please keep them coming!

[@garywilson3183]

That is a cool unit!

[@aidanbrennan7389]

Getting close to 100000 subscribers. Any plans on how this milestone will be celebrated? Apart from having a few pints of Guinness!! Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@mikemitchell2554]

Haha to be honest I haven't yet, some others were asking about that too.. I didn't know that was a thing haha

[@aidanbrennan7389]

@@mikemitchell2554 Maybe a review/walkaround of all your machinery lined up in the yard. It would be nice to see all of the kit.

[@dennissanders7756]

Mike i would move to Canada to live the life you have...I would love ridin a tractor day in day out...ive rode many miles here in Okla making hay...thats about all we have in this part...row crop farming is 50 mi in any direction...crazy you farm that distance from your yard everyday..man I like the looks of those Fendts...bad looking boys for sure...I like all the 40 series you have around the yard...those are probably my favorite tractors even thou they are ancient..lol...my first cab tractor was a new 4040 in 82...a lawn tractor compared to your Deeres..lol...but pretty much same transmission and cab...I can run one blindfolded...I don't own any eqp but i work for a 82 yr young man taking care of his ranch...be like your back yard..lol...he told me pick out what eqp you want and ill get it...ok easy ...green..lol...I told him I wanted a 569 rd baler...a 956 moco...done deal...I said a 100hp Deere will work..he sends me info on a 200 hp low hr Deere in Illinois...as much as I liked it had to say no...overkill..lol...soon he calls and says truck is on the way with your tractor...but its orange 🍊...its a 135 hp 4×4...its a fine haying tractor..pull a 15ft bat wing and a 10 ft JD no till drill...baby's compared to your air drills..lol...so it would be a lifetime dream to be on a quad pulling a 60ft air drill for days...man you have the best...Merry Christmas to you and Ashton...thats beyond cool you guys farm togather along with all your hands...I usally watch at least a video a week ...some time a day...hey if you find a buyer for rock send them to Tailholt Okla..lol...bet you aint never heard a name like that..lol...its home to me and is actually on the map in Cherokee County Okla...man I'd pay you to run a rig..lol

[@lloydwilliams8715]

Hilarious 😁😆😆 Mike asual. Only Mike will go rock picking in snow. Just understand that a man just got to do what needs to be done 🤣🤣🤣. Like me am accostom to waking at a certain time in the morning, if am not going out say on a Saturday or Sunday it's hard to stay in bed

[@m.webber5118]

Outstanding video thanks! Extreme rock picking! COOL!

[@davidlogel2350]

Farmed a bunch of ground inbetween Leross and Lestock one year and yeah, definitely had more hills than we were used too. Had too shift down to 2nd before the base of the hills if you wanted any hope of climbing it. Had the wife with me for a a couple hours one evening and she was on the edge of the buddy seat the entire time. She says to me, “ it’s like we’re going to fall off the world as we crest the hills”. 😂

[@mikemitchell2554]

I know that area! Haha and I would agree

[@timmyarnold3220]

You should be listening to Colter wall driving down the highway! Badass!

[@spork-ey7641]

No joke...when I went costume harvesting I think it was Oklahoma I said you have no rocks to pick they looked at me funny and said how do know when they are ripe enough to pick🤣

[@eof3100]

Mike can you put marker on your gps when you are harvesting to pin point where the rocks are, I do that on my trimble when spraying , and use a thumb drive to load it on your rock picking tractor.

[@max-jc4wq]

You can but there are way too many rocks out there.

[@SomeTechGuy666]

That must be one of the first Degelman Super pickers. I've never seen anyone pick rocks after it snowed before. I thought this was a gag video. Where I grew up we used to windrow the rocks so they could be picked faster.

[@ronmitchell1870]

Well only a true Mitchell would go rock picking in the snow 😁

[@milpertitchalot6432]

I call it dirt picking with a occasional rock 😀 To soon?

[@mikemitchell2554]

Too soon! 🤣

[@gavinperry7237]

If this was the first time someone had seen rock picking they would think Mike needs a straight jacket the same colour of the snow and a “Matching Padded Room” 🤣😂

[@dozerblade]

Someone could make an app so you could mark where the rocks are when combining, then go straight to them later for picking, might save time and fuel as well !

[@bassomatic1871]

What percentage do the speed goats contribute to the overall fertilizer plan for that field?

[@julianearl5026]

I think those hills you were showing us when rock picking may have been the field that you showed us when you and Ashtyn were seeding ... you were in green and Ashtyn was in red ... and yes 17 degrees is steep ...

[@vickykirkland6629]

Snowwwww . I love snow ❄

[@roberttrains]

you can add clear window protection on the inside of the windshield to stop you eating glass. I know some construction equipment has the safety glass on it for DOT requirements in California for snow removal.

[@claymieras5428]

Rock picking in the snow well then what could go wrong 😂😂

[@Dan-yq7iu]

Absolutely nothing 🤣

[@jeffreycarpenter7485]

Hey Mike! You captured a nice video of a Parhelion (Three Sun), (Sun Dog) at the 32 minute 30 second mark on this video! N ice Job!

[@quadrider5004]

22:09 first time in my life i´ve seen a rockpicker drifting haha

[@MF760]

You are fortunate to have hydraulic drive stone pickers. The early Degelman rock pickers were ground drive and you had to be moving to get the reel driving enough to flip the rocks. There was none of that stopping by a rock and slowly easing into it. Why can't you combine up that hill? I realize it is steep but I've combined up some pretty steep hills. One hill I was on much steeper than that, the up hill tire on the MF510 lifted off the ground and the MF760 drive tires were hopping and spun out until we had to go down the hill backwards.

[@theleesfarm689]

You should put a trail camera out by a grain bag

[@georgew.5639]

You pick up antlers. I have to look for sticks while mowing fairways at the golf course.

[@steveleslie2170]

Rock picking in the snow...that would make a good title to a Country song.

[@farmershady48]

Mike there's snow way of getting around snow LOL

[@jamesbyrne5734]

Yo Mike , when u say I pulled in for lunch supper & desert goodies 🤔 . Where do u pull in ? I see nothing but straight roads & corn fields for miles & miles 😂😂

[@danadams3465]

First time i seen rock pickingas fun! got some chuckles out of that. Still won't pick rocks for anyone though! haha

[@timothybailey7118]

I remember watching you seed that hilly field. Didn’t you have the Case on that field after giving up on the 1050 Fendt as a seed tractor?

[@nitrodad15]

Telling some to pick rocks in the snow is like taking someone on a snipe hunt.

[@mikemitchell2554]

🤣🤣

[@pamelaglowczwski8904]

I usually like to watch Mike's videos, because of his interesting humor... This rock picking has got to end! Ha Ha

[@paulwhitford6814]

With the large hills, is it more practical to use earthmoving equipment to scalp it to a height that you can use it as farming land?

[@WilliamStevens007]

Remember that field from this years seeding videos, Didnt you get stuck with the seeder Mike??

[@chadhudgins4173]

That oversize load was a windmill tower

[@adampap5598]

I wish my fields were that clean. Pretty sure we have Volkswagen's burried around our place

[@zephlajoie4404]

How to you even do all of those things at once!!! Have you ever found a really cool rock?

[@marshalloutdoors1791]

Good video. Love to hunt there. Oh Mike also could I het a cpl sheds? 😆

[@samstahl9510]

2014 and up John Deere started putting laminated glass in the front windshield , so ur John Deere quads have them

[@fisherh9111]

Picking rocks is like popping pimples and just as satisfying.

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Thanks for the video

[@rockfosg]

Do you mark big rocks on the map when you harvest?

[@KC-wf3hv]

Good vid Mike!

[@secondcreekworkshop3908]

Mike is rock picking and here I am wondering how a Chevy square body cab got on the rock pile.

[@mikeznel6048]

Like a rock!

[@juhle29]

Wide load its a part to a tower for a windturbine from vestas

[@mikemitchell2554]

Oh interesting!

[@juhle29]

@@mikemitchell2554 its a big Company from Denmark wher i live and i work ther to 😉

[@mattclark8436]

Mike, you will try anything at least once, but it appears rock picking in the snow was a success! You take care!

[@eddygoodwin7089]

It would be cool if they made implements that had sensors that marked the rock location when it trips a spring.

[@2a3b93]

Are you able to mark contact with a rock in one machine and transfer that info to the map of the rock picking power unit later on ?

[@user-teabager]

Apply pressure with your hand to the glass when a truck comes the opposite direction that should help with the glass

[@MC-re2ry]

So Mike, did you ever think about listing those rocks for sale on Amazon? Canadian Rocks. Naturally produced by real Canadian growers. Assorted sizes and shapes. Guaranteed to last a lifetime. Sold by the pound, shipped world around. Each rock arrives with detailed map showing it's place of origin. No two alike. Truly unique. Shipping costs vary.

[@mikemitchell2554]

Ha! I better get on it! 🤣

[@Northern_Farmer]

I thought you had more snow than that but it looks like it's working pretty good.

[@bohemianford1165]

That’s is a nice sledding hill

[@michaelmalanot8506]

He says he is worried about a senior chucking a rock at his windshield and then just this morning he posts a vid on patreon of this exact thing happening to him in this tractor. Mike can see trouble coming

[@mikemitchell2554]

So true! 😬