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[@MillennialFarmer]

For Pete's sake guys, I'm sorry we lost the SD card!

[@knobcreekoutdoors135]

Its ok everyone loses stuff. We can wait for your video .. have a good day

[@SestoElomenTo11]

Hey! My middle name is Pete.:)

[@jordanroberts1519]

I blame Obama.

[@1amaker]

You could just go back and do it all over again. Or we can wait for the lost files episode. I’m sure you’ll find it in the last place you look.

[@jordanroberts1519]

+Brent wanamaker Or don't even label it a lost files episode. Just randomly throw in full on harvest in the middle of January and watch the confusion in the comments section.

[@tylerpeters1157]

About 15 miles north of you, we take our loader tractor and dig around it enough to get a log chain around it and use our 7810 to pull it out while the loader helps push it out. Works pretty slick most of the time!

[@mauricepeterson8205]

We mounted a back hoe to a 3 point quick hitch. It runs on the tractor hyd. Works great for things like digging rocks. Goes on our 4450 or 7810. Love your videos!!! Thanks for supporting us farmers

[@troyskeese1503]

Dynamite!! Blast em The videos would be awesome

[@sergeantwilliams8185]

You are on the move with your subscribers! I honestly can’t fault people for subscribing to your channel because your content is very informative and intriguing. Keep it up!

[@jwjco]

lots of rain up here west of Duluth, most likely we,ll spend the day in the shop. Glad to here the daughter is doing well .

[@jaredjohnston9549]

We use what we call a dirt scoop. It's a pull behind scraper that we added a more aggressive and reinforced cutting edge to. We also have a backhoe loader. I personally think renting/ buying a backhoe is your best option.

[@markbiteler]

Really great to hear the good news about your daughter!

[@53antelope]

Payloader works good for digging rocks. We used a rock bucket on a front end loader for bigger rocks but smaller rocks we use a rotary degelman. Degelman makes a rock tooth machine that you pull for digging big rocks. You can also get it for the front of a tractor it attaches where a blade would go.

[@j-6308]

I run heavy equipment in the phosphate mines here in central FL, an i happen to stumble across your videos a few days ago. I have no clue about farming on this scale but i catch myself while at work now loading trucks (with a john deere 844K-ll) watching your videos.. They are very knowledgeable an you actually explain the things you are doing to where the normal person can understand it.. I thank you for the awesome video's an im going through an catching up on the other's you've posted.. Hope you guy's have a blessed harvest an stay safe..

[@tylerbonsma2116]

Love the videos! People started harvesting corn here in southwestern Ontario this week, I work delivering feed but also in the fields. Keep it up, and safe harvesting everyone!

[@JimBob-uj8gq]

We uses a loader with long forks. Dig the soil off the top with the bucket first then use the big loader and forks to pop them out.

[@507farmer7]

When we take big rocks out like you mentioned, we throw the forks on our skid-steer and put the forks together. Its the just a process of digging around the rock and finding the edges/loosening dirt around it. Once we know how big it is we wither bring our back hoe out to try and pry one side out(rotate or get out entirely) or if we think our skid steer can handle getting it out we do that.

[@moneymonkeyman8280]

Hey man greetings from Missouri I just wanted to say that I've been watching your videos for about a few months now and I'm actually loving them and I just hope that you don't forget about all your fans whenever you reach a million love you man

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

111k subs!? Man! You. Are. On. FIRE!

[@adamrichardson6918]

make that 112k....go get em!

[@paulhill5648]

Now over 114k subs 👍🏼👍🏼

[@AlextheDutchDairyfarmer]

@@paulhill5648 he really is on fire! At this rate he will catch up with how farms work in no time

[@paulhill5648]

Alex the Dutch Dairyfarmer we can only hope mate, and we were here to witness the greatness that he is 👍🏼👍🏼

[@deadghost1964]

@@paulhill5648 Now it's 923k!

[@braydenbickett680]

I watch your videos during school because I can’t wait for the weekends and running grain cart. I run a magnum 290 with a j&m 1050

[@LLLucascharles]

We have had good luck with a Tough T rock lift made in Glenfield, ND. Heavy built 3 point rock nabber. The degelman trailed nabber would be easier on your tractor if you're trying to move mountains.

[@jakeoht791]

The one thing I have seen for taking big rocks out of fields is the Bergen Rock Picker/Digger (attatchment wise). I dont know if they still make them but are/were mainly sold in Canada.

[@nanoseTT]

You are simply the best ! I just want to say that me, and i believe everyone just wants from you to continue uploading videos every day. Do not forget me when you get that 1M subscribers. Greetings !

[@zachmiller9955]

If we ever have issues with rocks it's when we are ripping in the spring. Only thing we have done is just try and pry them up with our ripper then move the bobcat or front loader and haul them away

[@mengers06]

Around here we have a lot of ledge (literally everywhere)... and the common method is to drill and add something like Dexpan to break up the rock, and remove with a backhoe with a thumb or skid steer attachment, rock bucket or backhoe.

[@georgepavelek6969]

Depending on the size of rocks I've used an edge brand stump bucket on the skid steer. Works great.

[@LAWSON08]

0:52 You're right on the money. The snow is flying in ND! Lots of corn and beans out yet, and the forecast is for more snow and cold.

[@TH-od1nk]

Zach, we drill holes with a hammer drill into the rock and break the rock up with gunpowder or a smaller stick of dynamite, works really well, we can usually then just dig out the broken pieces with the pallet forks on our loader. Great videos thanks!

[@shawnkaltrider5915]

We farm 1500 acres in Maryland alot of small farms with woods around we brought a used cat 963 to push back the edges and get rid of some of the once ( permanent) rocks

[@rongrose3746]

Very glad and thankful your daughter is okay !!

[@jeremylanger2176]

We used a Wilcox type ripper with a large single shank to get around them and pull them. Had a sort of boom arm on a second tractor that we could get chains around them to carry them out.

[@kevinhedgepeth-NB7O]

I am sure that you have a lot of answers about the rocks. I came from a potato farmers and loggers in Oregon. My dad used to describe blowing rocks and stumps. They would dig under the rock/stump, put an appropriate sized charge under, light it off and run. This service two purposes. 1. it pushed the rock up out of the ground and 2. broke the rock into manageable size pieces. They then would use a blade to back fill the hole and drive over it a few times with the track to tamp the hole back. Our family farmed near Madras, Oregon and Klamath Falls, Oregon. The timber and mill operation was near Grants Pass Oregon.

[@benbonderson3731]

Something is better than nothing Zach. Thanks for the video, it was great as usual.

[@jackneely6187]

Regarding the large rocks, I am a Civil Enginner and have removed masses of large rocks. You have some options 1) Crack the rocks with explosives 2) rent an excavator 3) add a backhoe attachment to one of your existing tractors or 4)crack the rocks by starting a fire on top, burn for a while then sweep the fire off and dump cold water on the rock 5) get a deep running plow to excavate the rock.

[@jaywest4102]

Heard a few you tubers recently say they lost their memory cards. Black blends in to well, paint them a bright neon color and they’ll be easier to see.

[@thedonleroy]

We've been lucky enough to get just about half of our beans out but now the weather looks terrible for beans the next few days so we are going to switch to corn on Saturday & see how that goes. Hope this rain stops soon. Thanks for the video.

[@Tyguyborgerding]

We have an excavator attachment for the skid loader, haven't used it for digging out rocks but we've done a lot of other stuff with it and it works great

[@williamwood3rd72]

I'm not a farmer but they do make buckets for front end loaders with just Skreet screens in it so just gets rocks picked up if you just dig it straight in or you can just rent the backhoe attachment for your skid loader

[@deere2420]

I started beans yesterday moisture was 13 only have a few hundred acres ready yielding pretty good on 1st crop double crop beans look ok.

[@kevinorchard8087]

I’m almost the end of a full ASI repair of a 9610. Straw walker bearings, and crankshafts, raps bars, deflector bars, beater bars, chaff spreader motors, clean grain sprockets and bearings...Cannot wait to see this 9610 leave the shop.

[@PAHerefords]

We have used a beefed up subsoiler that we made, and our backhoe for the super large rocks. Works good for us.

[@MrCa107]

I enjoy viewing your daily harvest vlogs from the UK. Keep them coming !!

[@nickshamplo7489]

well you could always look into renting a excavator to get the rocks out. and hope the harvest keeps rolling for ya.

[@ZwergofPhoenix]

Just stick enough dynamite in there ....

[@BornToFarm101MN]

We have a 3 point mounted backhoe and also have what we call a “rock nabber”. It’s 3 point mounted, two narrow forks angled down on bottom and one hydraulic grapple on top to hold onto them.

[@farmingnodak]

Have something similar as well, seems to work well as long as the rock isn't too deep where the 3-pt can't get down underneath it. How big is yours? Do you have a video on your channel at all about it?

[@AndersonFarms]

Got one here too

[@ryanpearson5482]

BornToFarm101 I love your channel!

[@BornToFarm101MN]

@@ryanpearson5482 thanks!

[@BornToFarm101MN]

Ya we run into some trouble getting under them every now and then. I don't have any videos of it on my channel. I'll keep it in mind. @@farmingnodak

[@fensie2724]

111,000 thousand subscribers already a couple days ago you just hit 100,000 subscribers you are growing fast!!!! Love your videos!!! For Pete’s sakes crazy!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@brodyknapp5265]

We have a backhoe, also use a skidloader, the 2 in tandem seem to move them around

[@bendowleyracing89]

Hey mate i farm in central queensland, Australia We have loads of floaters(large rocks that are surrounded in dirt and slowly work there way through the ground surface over time) also vains of basalt, lime, sandstone and patches of granite and we use a 3PL FAE MTH 225 rock crusher a few swipes it pulverize the rocks not losing soil like plucking and removing rock leaving holes but we gain all the nutrients released from the rock.

[@bendowleyracing89]

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[@CCConversions]

Stump bucket with grapple works amazing on digging and moving rocks

[@aaronsprung6216]

I have dug out some big rocks with a rock bucket for our skid steer. I dug out one that 2 skid steers to get it to the rock pile.

[@westernfarmer5588]

We have a problem with big rocks too in the hills and what we’ve done is dig them up with the front end loader on out 6400 DEERE and just pushed them up and out. Yes it’s a little hard on equipment. Yes it makes a mess with having to move so much dirt but it does work well

[@Lance123430]

Rock badger for a skid steer works awesome even for sizeable rocks. Also make one for a pay loader.

[@dalewalker2315]

I know you probably won't like the answer to the stone problem, but we had a 580 Case backhoe. We didn't try to dig them out, just dig the hole deeper and shove them into it! LOL! I know it's another expense, another battery, another engine to maintain, but I think you would be surprised at the number of uses you will find for it. We were always fixing tile lines/blow outs.

[@mcconkeyb]

When I was a kid my uncle used to remove huge rocks with dynamite. It was always fun going to watch that!

[@zacharyhenckel5005]

We dont have to deal with many rocks on our farm, but I would recommend digging out on end and then taking the loader or some other power tool and cut it into pieces so that the loader can drag it out and the pieces are a lot easier to move

[@brookszenker8510]

we have always used a decent sized wheel loader to dig out our rocks in south central ND. We have a 621C case loader. I understand this isn't probable for you but I figured I'd give my opinion.

[@droberts3296]

I use a 3 point hitch backhoe attachment for the rocks here in South Georgia.

[@Kaptoj]

we use a backhoe its fast and efficent and it have so many uses on a farm, its one of the machines we chould not live without

[@ribeyeiowa]

Nice videos Zach our corn is dry in eastern Iowa but we get hammered with rain ever other day .

[@FingerLakesLL607]

A U blade attachment for a skid steer. Commonly used by landscapers. Like me. Great attachment for digging.

[@wifarmerhank3039]

If you haven't already seen it, there is company called Agstorm. They have a front mounted claw with a winch called a rock hawk. Never seen one in person but it was in farm show magazine a couple years ago.

[@brentanderson5618]

I ended up buying a John Deere 510c backhoe for the big rocks it was under ten thousand and it comes in handy for a lot of other projects fixing tile digging tree stumps and other things good luck with Harvest I'm going to switch over to corn because it keeps raining every other day so we can't pick beans

[@dylane3561]

Have you tried extra long forks on a skid steer? You may be able to coax it out a little more that way.

[@ianwilliams2709]

You guys have the best videos around.

[@christianluhring2430]

We use a Gnuse 3 pt loader to pick rocks, when we hit a big one we can usually dig/push it out

[@askelson21]

As far as the corn being much dryer than beans. I had a conversation with a local agronomist last night about that too. He said part of that might be because the corn is so much taller this year and that apparently makes that corn dry quicker. Might be a bit more to it than that, but I was a few beers in at that point of the night.

[@stevewurtz5121]

I'm happy for you the engine tuner is working. But i do think it gotta wear out your fuel pump. Seen it happen good luck with harvest. I'm from S.D. way south, we cannot harvest at all it's to wet to do anything. So keep the mean John Deere going use to run a 9750 on a 12 row. Loved it.

[@hopegordon1]

We have a rock badger, it is a skidsteer attachment, it has 2 very thick steel tines that come out and at the end there is a piece of angle iron that keeps it straight. Our skidsteer is to small and it picks the back right up bit we have dug some big rocks out with that.

[@throzousstratoz8794]

What a boost tho..a few day back u just reach 100k sub now 112k..damn nice..that mean is alot...ALOT of people are rooting on u..haha

[@InsideMelissasMind]

Just came across your chanel, watching them all when I can, will be a hemp farmer in the uk one day, thanks for sharing great content!!!

[@openacresproductions5625]

If you still have a skid steer, you can get a excavator attachment, also you could get an excavator attachment for a front loader.and perhaps a 3 point

[@s.pursell8901]

Zach, why do you not plant during the winter? Winter wheat? Is there no time before the first frost? Is there no market for wheat in MN? I have not seen you even drive past any. Do you bail your corn stalks? Maybe you can make a Q and A during the winter? Just a suggestion. I'm loving your channel! You have a great family. Thank you all. I'm sure your wife helps edit alot with all the time your farming and only you and your father.

[@bradsingle7168]

I dig a ramp down on each side of the rock and either pull it out or push it out. Just using a mfwd tractor with loader works for me. Has worked with a rock weighing 8-10,000 lbs

[@kalenrecker8856]

Great video!!... yeah we are the same down here not a whole lot of bean getting picked a lot more corn is getting picked

[@fry6804]

A few years ago we received some money for a pipeline construction project which some of we we put towards a used backhoe. You might not think so now, but a backhoe is the best investment you could ever make. Very versatile machine for its money.

[@treybrune8395]

my I sure do love it when you post new videos and dang man11k subs in only a few days.. awesome!!

[@albertterweij]

If it's a small piece of a big boulder thats "sticks out" in the top soil then we hammer it of with a jack hammer. We tried to dig whole boulders, the >1 ton ones, out with the fendt 820 with frontloader. It works but it's too muchs strain on the equipment. Now we rent a 27 ton excavator ones a year for 2 days.

[@jondaws8927]

Hey Zack. For the big rocks. Using a set of pallet forks on a loader works ok but depends on how big of rocks you have and maybe you have already tried that

[@Kamal_sran]

Enjoying your daily blogs .

[@DeMers10]

We dig our large rocks out with pallet forks on our volvo payloader. A payloader probably isn’t on your wishlist but it’s definitely the easiest. I have a video on my account of what not to do lol if you want to check it out. Started digging the rock and turned out to be bigger than I thought😅

[@OpasJDGarage]

I’m happy the little one is ok.

[@johndeerejimmy4019]

A farmer near us hired a 50 ton Link-Belt shovel and articulated rock trucks.A few huge rocks the size of a car the shovel carried off to side of field by it’s self

[@JCLawn51]

Someone mentioned this for a tractors but you can find used backhoe attachments for the skid steers. Old backhoes are a dime a dozen though. As far as lifting them, they make forklifts attachments for 3 point. Something the size of a car would be 4 to 6 ton i would imagine. Nothing short of a large loader or large excavator with a thumb is going to man handle that.

[@matthewitt70]

We had a loader attachment for our asv skid steer that had a grapple on it also to grab the bigger rocks seemed to work ok for us on the bigger ones bout the ones the size of your fist had problems with and those were the ones that cause the most damage to rotors and concaves

[@justinmillhouse4426]

In my opinion I think a backhoe isn’t a terrible idea. I work full time for a excavation company and help family members farm in the evening and on weekends and a backhoe becomes a lot handier than you think once you have one. We have a 99 John Deere 410e and it has good hydro power for digging lifting and bucketing and has good transmission push to it as well. But sometimes the boulders we dig up r sizes that ur talking about. So we dig clear around them and sometimes dig a makeshift ramp and run a chain around them and drag them out with a tractor. But that’s just how we do it. I hope this helps!

[@justinmillhouse4426]

Plus a backhoe u wouldn’t have to haul to the field u can just drive it.

[@distantblackout7926]

ABOUT THE ROCKS: We use an implement called a bedformer which puts the soil into rows. Once we bedform our fields we then use our de-stoner which is a tool that is a trail behind that sorta looks like a carrot digger. It digs under the soil and puts all the rocks up the belt and takes the dirt with it. Once it reaches the top of the belt the dirt falls through the gaps and the rocks get emptied into a compartment at the back which can be emptied once you reach the end of your row. We also have a CAT loader that has a rock bucket that has gaps in it so it doesn't take the dirt with it. We use the loader quite a bit for large boulders/rocks

[@2323Legoboy]

When we are taking rocks out of the field we just put the rock bucket on the skid-loaded and dig it out usually.

[@keenankelley187]

Funny unloading on the cart on your left shoulder!! Didn’t know the combine had auger on both sides LOL.. Just kidding

[@davidnelson4051]

I use skid loader dig hole on the sides to get a 1and half cable around them pull them out on to a stone boat if you have to use a double pulley on a parked tractor it takes time but works we also have a guy that blasts the big ones

[@nashguy207]

Thanks for sharing Glad everything is going well and that Ila is ok.

[@mattattac1]

To remove big rocks you can get a jack hammer attachment for your skid steer....that way you can break them into smaller pieces then remove them with the bucket.

[@wesleyrhoads3307]

Not sure how good it would work but have you ever tried a hydraulic breaker on your skid steer to break them into smaller pieces that your current equipment can handle?

[@rhettmcauley9961]

Good job on your channel. We farm in north eastern Saskatchewan, and when harvesting take it on the run with the trucks saving more time. the only time we use a cart is when the fields are to wet. Are your fields not truck friendly?

[@Mrsilverado18]

We used a 410 John Deere backhoe. I'm sure you could find a 3 point attachment hoe for one of ur tractors. They make them pretty good size

[@sfr2929]

I've only moved rocks with a D6 dozer using a rear mounted ripper shank. I would think with a large enough ripper on the challenger you could at least get the rock out and on the surface to where you can manipulate the rock with another attachment/piece of equipment to fully remove it from the field. Did you ever try and dig them out with that tree machine you had before you sold it? I'm unfamiliar with those so I'm not sure what kind of hydro force they're capable of.

[@coleblackburn9962]

We use a shaker skeleton bucket for a skid loader to dig out rocks made by tomahawk

[@wranther]

With the good news that your girl is doing so well, sounds like harvest is a complete success :) Sounds like maybe a good snowstorm late next week coming up thru these parts, if the eastern SD forecasters are on point.

[@kyleproulx4364]

I’m from Northwest Minnesota. We have to same issue with BIG rocks. I know this is not what your thinking but the best way we take them out is our D7 dozer. We’ve tried an excavator, it’s seems to just make a big mess for our operation.

[@slpss2002]

Always glad to hear that your girl is ok. That's a big scary fall.

[@jakec.8533]

did some quick research, look up tough-t rocklift. Looks like they're made or at least based out of North Dakota

[@diarmuid9887]

Buy a rubber duck wheel digger to dig out rocks also handy with forks around the yard . Ireland

[@brenden4258]

Glad to here your daughter is ok

[@gordpolis6785]

Neighbors years ago where I used to live built an attachment using a ripper from a D6D Cat and were moving your size rocks!

[@obedientmarshmallow]

We got snow up in centeral Minnesota on Friday morning

[@levicoons5923]

It’s difficult and time consuming but my grandpa dig 3 - 6 ft boulders out of our field with a 1970 JD 1520 with a loader