Picking Rock with a Haybuster H-106 Rock-Eze Rock Picker/1256 Rolling Coal Pulling the Cultivator

[@bruceprentice6441]

I just come in from working land all afternoon and picking a few rocks, and I sit down with a cold beer, and watch a guy working land and picking rocks. I must be either crazy or a farmer, lol

[@brandonhoad9033]

Or... crazy to be a farmer. Cows?

[@alisciamarotta3888]

They named it " Rock-Eze " for a reason. Old school design that works!! I'm sure you were impressed , by the looks of it got few rocks out. Love that old dump truck.....worth every penny!

[@808TheDuck]

That thing is cool! It did clear some rocks. Can't kill that old 1256!

[@1960teko]

That rock picker is a time saver did a good job. I grew up on a dairy farm in Central NEW YORK my dad had 3 rock pickers. Myself and 2 brothers. Lol great videos to show it in operation. 😂

[@kevinwilliams563]

That’s amazing how much rock you picked out of that field. It will be interesting how much your yields improve with that done. Great video Guys. Really enjoyed seeing that process.

[@trinitydairy]

If time or money was no object, I would've liked to have kept picking. Maybe this fall, I'll pick it again .

[@allanvaneste9106]

Well that was all the old 1256 wanted. She did it though. Can always rely on the Red Power. That's quite the rock collection you have now. That size of rock is handy for a lot. Nice to have around.

[@22gonefishing]

Never seen a rock picker like that one, seemed to work pretty good even if you had to go over some spots 2 or 3 times. I'd bet you will use that one again to pick more rocks. Another great video and God Bless your family.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Looks like the rock picker that Larson Farms used. I think most of us farmers can relate about changing plans and making things work out when there is a breakdown. Sometimes farmers are the most creative people when it comes to "getting by" with what you have. We have too.

[@nightrider6769]

Oh absolutely.

[@farawayfarm2520]

The farm implement I wanted most as a kid. A rock picker. 🤣

[@allanulen3809]

Putting the grunts to the old girl. Also some power steering with the wheels coming up. Great video. Love watching the cowsgtaze, so peaceful.

[@daleerickson1830]

I remember spending Easter holidays picking those kind of rocks with my brothers

[@wendydeskins]

Another great video! Looking forward to the next one!

[@gregkortbein5108]

I used a picker just like that for 10 years before we switched to No-till. You did a good job. Those rocks work great for field roads with deep ruts in them. I know it’s not the fastest job with the picker but sure beats doing it by hand.

[@trinitydairy]

Yes, we filled in a bunch of holes in our field roads. They worked great.

[@jameshinkle6830]

That's pretty cool. Looks a little slow going but the end results will hopefully be more than worth it.

[@mer58lin]

Early '80s my dad got 120 acres next to his farm that had a 18 acre field with 20 stone piles on it. Holes were dug next to each one with our case backhoe and we pushed them in and covered them with an old D-6 cat that we got on an auction. We plowed and disked the field and then ran the drag thru it few times after it dried....bringing up a rock per square foot minimum. Dad decided that my brother and I should take the backhoe and put it in low/low and walk along with it picking rocks across the narrow direction of the field the width of the backhoe bucket. We were gonna put in wheat so we had a while before school started between baling hay, cultivating corn and milkin cows to get it done. Dad ran the other small rock picker that we had with one of the 560's. About 2 weeks in one morning after chores brother and I went rock pickin.....Dad?...disappeared, no 560,no little green rock picker but, we knew we better be pickin when he got there so...... Just before noon we heard something, the loudest Rackett we'd ever heard comin from over the small hill to the north. We deciced to go look and comin up the other side was Dad. He had gone to the local Deere dealer and somehow arranged to have this same model HAYBUSTER on his farm......Yes,of course brother and I kept pickin by hand but the wheat got put in and it was a really good peice of ground after that. That picker got used on almost all of the 440 acres that we had and always did a great job if we didnt try to feed it too fast(we had a lot of rocks, some you just dug a big hole beside and dropped them deeper). I do remember though that it didnt have the long teeth on the windrow bar, instead it had peices of 3/4"×1" bar stock welded to it so rocks just got pushed ahead until they made their way across to the squirrel cage. Oh...and you can load the box with enough rocks that you get to get in and hand unload so the tractor hydraulics will dump it( happened just once). Its a real good machine to have.

[@stevebrooking4506]

Brilliant job on the camera angles showing the rock picker working 👌

[@dwyaneengle9621]

Looks like money to me. Crush rock sells for around 60 a ton here. Something to think about could be a good side line business for the farm. God Bless 🙏

[@flossdaly8274]

Great results from that rock picker. From the looks of that field you could have probably spent several weeks running that picker. Cultivate, pick, repeat. If those results don't convince you that a picker of that style needs to be in your inventory, then I don't know what will, lol. Of course, money doesn't grow on trees, but I'd think it should be in your planning. You've got enough of a rock pile now that you could lay down some real nice road foundations. Well, thanks for another great video. I always look forward to your videos to see the improvements you're making on the farm.

[@trinitydairy]

I'd like to go back and pick more, hopefully this fall.

[@cadcad4974]

Clearing rocks and corn stubble at the same time! You really should look for a used, or old rock picker, you could repair! It will reduce the cost of equipment damage & repairs and allow seeds to grow increasing your yield! ✌️🇺🇸 I enjoy watching your farm channel, with your family, and the various pieces of farm equipment. 👍 PS and when the videographer talks to the cows as they pass by and respond to their names! 🙂 Have a safe Holliday weekend!🇺🇸 Peace🇺🇸

[@jamesbristow5740]

Woo, wrinkling the sidewalls on the 1256, that was always the goal at the drags to know you were hooking up. Nice seeing that rock come off the field!

[@georgem1000]

Great work Alan, and great video trinity dairy, once again ❤

[@johnalexander8589]

Damn that is neat never seen that before used to go through the field picking with front backhoe bucket

[@geraldsundberg3610]

That picker is one heck of a invention!

[@frankarl3496]

Chat from Larson Farms has one just like that

[@allancundiff8027]

That 1256 is an impressive tractor I liked the video hope you can get as many of those rocks picked that is a good picker

[@tractorsfamilyandwildlife1342]

I run a rock picker just like that one. They do an awesome job real time saver

[@TimKrenz-j8t]

Nice information on how the Rock Picker works 😊

[@jayr6549]

Wow. Good fences make good neighbors, and rock walls do the same. But you guys - you guys can build roads…. Thx for the education, I’d never seen a rock picker in action.

[@messengercreekexotics]

With that rock picker you are getting a good harvest of rocks. Now if you could find a market for them.

[@trinitydairy]

Right?!

[@johnhenderson299]

That is quite the rock picker

[@johnhenderson8360]

Enjoyed your video.. We needed one of these when I was growing up on the farm. "Picking Stone" was not a favorite activity when I was MUCH younger. I appreciate that you went over some areas a couple times, huge improvement! One change I would make on the Picker would be on the large lifting/loading wheel, I would have a smaller gap between the horizontal bars, so it would catch smaller stones. Again, really enjoyed your video!

[@martymartin2894]

Definitely good improvement, I'd say u could weld bars in between the others using even thinner bars.

[@mattutke4704]

It looks like it would have taken a life time to get All them rocks picked by hand, the old iron isn't afraid of hard work at all, I saw another KZbin channel someone had a 1256 Identical to yours it is a 1969 model, yours is probably the same year 🚜 happy memorial weekend Alan 🇺🇸

[@trinitydairy]

Oh gosh, I think someone would have a nervous breakdown trying to pick it by hand. You'd have nightmares about rocks.

[@alisciamarotta3888]

Larson Farm out of Minnesota got one.

[@brandonhoad9033]

@@alisciamarotta3888 didn't they get rid of it?

[@alisciamarotta3888]

@@brandonhoad9033 no, they show it on the previous video.

[@lawrenceb.3349]

Great video. Interesting work and nice camera angles.

[@mikebrown1188]

Looks like that was money well spent on the rock picker. I have run a rock.picker with the reel and dump.bakset. never seen one like that in action very cool. We need rain SW WI

[@MorganOtt-ne1qj]

Rock pickers are always worth the $. I rebuilt hydraulics on an old McKee unit and made $ after a pipeline job. Got free rock and fill at the same time

[@watchthe1369]

I like the wheel dumping into the top basket sifter, it knocks more dirt off and leaves it in the fieldand make it tall enough to dump in a truck.

[@pshodean]

You have a nice crop of rocks there. :) Getting some good practice on your tractor pulling skills. Some concrete and you'd have a nice barbecue pit. That is doing a great job. Might have to go over a few areas a couple of times, but that looks like that field should be 100% better. Whoohoo !

[@patrickmorgan3326]

Great camera work and that machine is pretty slick. Definitely way ahead of a stone boat and a team of horses.

[@Rollinghillsfarmsmn]

That 1256 was snorting on that big cultivator but it worked. Good solution to overcome adversity and keep moving. Now I understand why you needed the big rock picker. Great tool; definitely worth renting when you look at the time saved. Great video.

[@challengerhitchman]

My dad would chisel, vibra shank, then run a tripple k S-tine. All the rocks were on top of the ground. Then run the rock rake followed by the picked. Less trash is always better.

[@michaeletchepareborde4298]

That is very cool

[@alisciamarotta3888]

Thanks for another great video, enjoy them all. Keep them coming. Have a wonderful holiday weekend.

[@anthonyhengst2908]

Once you get some of the rocks off the soil looks quite nice.

[@lesterhertel2945]

Another very interesting video Thank you

[@jacobb3446]

We used to have an Anderson rock rake and rock picker. The rake was I think 25' had 2 folding wings and raked rocks to the center into a row and then follow behind with the picker worked really well.

[@markreetz1001]

Not sure if the picker at work sounded like opening Fibber McGee's closet or a dryer loaded with pipe, car wheels and anvils. What a racket. Did a fine job. That's a pile o' rock!!

[@trinitydairy]

Yeah it was definitely loud

[@travisvolf1804]

Your second tractor was given her onions to pull the chizle plow... good to see you got it done!!

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

Well, you are off to a rocky start, but it does look much better. I was raised on a place my dad farmed about 12 acres of. It was similar to your place and had a big gravel pit on it. Those rocks are so hard on your equipment, but I hope this helps a lot. Have seen this rock picker on another channel as well. Hello from Michigan.

[@ronniewayne5748]

Good video.Those crazy rocks would had made your disk chatter if you had used it

[@nailedt0thecr0ss]

I just found and subbed you 2 all because of the cross you have on you intro. I mean yeah I like tractors, but the Lord rules my life too. That rock picker is awesome. It also gets the twigs.

[@williamhitchcock2360]

What a great job on the rocks--saves the back also.

[@outhouse9451]

Now that is a rocky field

[@jaketillema6830]

Cows out on a nice green pasture is an awesome sight👌

[@lewisgardner1660]

Very interesting video thank you for taking the time to film it for us. I am sure that all those rocks must have some monetary value to them, here in England people buy bags of them from garden centres for there garden and use as decorative paths etc etc they would also make a brilliant bottom layer for a road with smaller stones on the top. You could get the kids to paint pictures on some and sell them to your you tube fans

[@stuartsplace100]

That rock picker works awesome,beets picking rocks by hand,have done that job on many area farms here in Franklin county Vermont 😊

[@BarbaraLogsdon-tw4px]

I have the same Rock Picker and live in Michigan, best to do bean ground after cultivating it, less trash corn stubble is a lot harder, Great Machine gets a lot of Rocks I go over ground 3-4 Xs good luck

[@doublejfarmshomestead4501]

We need one of those! Sure do appreciate y’all!

[@dave8218]

Amazing anything grew in that section. Hope this helps with your next crop.

[@TimMartin-bh9js]

Hell yea that does a fine job that was wroth renting

[@canvids1]

Wow! that rock picker is the best I have seen for small rock. Happy to see that you got to use it. It would take maybe a couple more years using that machine to get you land more free of rocks. all so amazes me, JEN how on earth can you remember all your milk cows names????

[@trinitydairy]

Haha, our daughter is even better, she can tell you who are sisters, aunts, and cousins in the herd.

[@coryweber6188]

That thing works amazing

[@nightrider6769]

Allen that was a really cool video that rock picker that's that's pretty neat how it works A couple of times the drum actually stopped turning for a little bit and you were dragging it almost like a rock got caught in there or something but for the most part it did a really good job and I see that you have it takes a while to do a field because you have to go slow otherwise it kicks the rocks out like you were talking about but yeah that's pretty neat and your dump truck is getting a workout so that's good that that's being used and yeah I enjoyed video immensely thank you for your time making it.

[@trinitydairy]

Yeah, there were spots that so much rock was going into the drum it would just jam up.

[@timstevens2866]

That's a pretty awesome picker, though it does look like some land U will have to go over 2 or 3 times.

[@ralphriddle8864]

Very good job and God bless y'all

[@garybridger6707]

You never have enough tractors!!

[@philipr7686]

Two thoughts for the rock pile, be great if the local threshing shows had rock crushers and would take them off your hands if you wanted to get rid of them. Second in wishful thinking, if a landscaper would take them. That size is sometimes used in parking islands to take the place of lawn or concrete. I remember placing that size rock around a home landscape. I can't recall how it looked finished, but I remember having to wheelbarrow that rock up hill to place it. I have to imagine the rock migrated downhill over the years, sitting on top of plastic or fabric weed barrier. But, the picker worked well. I'd be off the tractor saying, "What?!" after hearing the rocks tumbling around. 👍👍 And I think the Cities are in competition with northern Minnesota and black bear sightings.

[@trinitydairy]

There's a lot of uses for them for sure. I'm filling in some washout around the farm, and those are great sizes. Yes, it seems like the bears found some easy meals!

[@DuaneDowd]

Holy crap I used to drive around the fields with a few laborers and a bucket loader

[@ronaldfeuerstein435]

Tks for sharing.. i know rocks to... picked so many by hand i was dreaming rocks...

[@Webb63]

I was wondering if you would show exactly how it worked..ty doing that. Man this would have saved my back when I used to pick up rocks with an old Oliver front end loader back in the 70,s. 2.00 an hour. Awesome video bud.

[@braydengarrett4164]

Man, ya'll sure did make that 1206 hallor but she did the job cause shes a International 1206, true american horse power

[@craigevery838]

Very cool!

[@kennymusselman7407]

Wish my Uncle had one of those we picked a lot of rock with the ole pitch fork looks like it did a good job

[@kyleblair4764]

At least you got a fork... I didn’t know that was a thing until this channel. We pick them all by hand... 😅

[@johnmcenaney1814]

Some city folk would pay good money for those rocks. :)

[@bryanginder5903]

That rock picker would be so handy!!

[@Chico-td2fy]

Wow that worked great! 🐄🐂

[@TomSmith-me7ph]

That rock picker did a slick job with all those rocks. Did you know that the black rocks are the heaviest!

[@3069mark]

It did a pretty good job but I wonder if there could be a steel backstop built behind the rake to prevent rocks from rolling over the rake. If so then it would probably pick up even more rocks than it does as is.

[@marshallsayre58]

Wow what an incredible attachment...farmers have a NEED, DREAM, and MAKE whatevr they need...you couldn't find most things at HD/LOWES

[@bioniclife]

Coming soon..."Trinity Sand and Gravel" KZbin channel...stay tuned!

[@dennisdole1764]

Great 👍 job ❤

[@nathanneeb9657]

You should use the rocks to build the road up so next time it floods the milk truck can still get in. 😉

[@trinitydairy]

Lol, honestly, there's probably enough had we kept picking.

[@AUS10M]

a lot of that looked pretty clean (for the most part) i would have used a lot of that for my gravel road infill.. none the less thanks for the video 👍

[@trinitydairy]

Yeah I've been using it for roads.

[@jandoinc]

Nice! Thanks for sharing

[@JohnDavis-mv6fm]

Great job I think you did a fantastic job If I can give some advice advertise the rock and get rid of it learn by my mistake get rid of it somehow Great job one of the best efforts

[@ryanlesperance7926]

Your back thanks you!

[@rustyrelicsfarm2406]

If you got a rock crusher you could have limitless gravel.

[@trinitydairy]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@richardharms8748]

Wow. Lots of rocks. Thought of you folks the other day. I delivered a some pole transformers to Kettle River. Thanks for sharing.

[@trinitydairy]

@@richardharms8748 oh cool! That's not far from us at all.

[@johndowe7003]

Limitless money too lol selling gravel is really nice

[@rayinpau.s.a.6351]

Excellent !

[@TimKrenz-j8t]

I still pick them up by hand at R Showgrounds

[@karencary3312]

Looks like you will need to use the picker each year to finally get a handle on the rock problem. God bless.

[@robertburt9071]

Larson farms has the same unit They still use theirs

[@ryanbachman9227]

Long slow never ending process. But it saves a lot of back breaking work. You will never get them all. But you might have a good spot for a gravel it. God bless

[@smithyboy657]

👍👍

[@davidkimmel4216]

Interesting tool.

[@watchthe1369]

Lots of hate for the Glaciers dropping rocks in those moraines. Idaho, Montana and Washington have similar problems. A Sugar beet picker derivative combined with a harley rake and bin from a forklift....

[@timimhoff8297]

Looks as if you could do nothing but pick rocks for a long time, but who would do the other work. We would be lost without our farmers. everyone should know how Hard farmers work.......🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜

[@trinitydairy]

Oh yeah, I could've been busy for a good week and still had more to pick.

[@jamesjohnson6239]

Hey trinity ! I cant help but think there's a better place to dump those rocks !! 😊

[@trinitydairy]

We put them right by our sand/gravel pit. Pretty much the perfect spot for them if we need them for anything.

[@ubcts]

Those rocks would be perfect ballast for a drive or road. Put them down and cover with modified

[@trinitydairy]

Yeah, I did that on one of our field roads, and it works great!

[@fullers1966]

When I grew up on the farm my dad had a spot that was way worse than this he didn't even planted one year all we did all summer was pick rocks 14 ft Diego men Rock rake and pecker got to the point that almost gave up on it hunker grown

[@virginiagraber9070]

WOW, stones 😏N.G.

[@JohnRoffers]

You already have rock pickers 😂

[@trinitydairy]

Making anyone try and pick that much rock would take months!

[@nykynuorisoonkuullun5805]

Kivi Pekka is the best stone collector!

[@trinitydairy]

I've heard of them, but don't have any in this area.