We Need A Tractor Attachment For THIS!!

[@multibikermike4681]

Build a screener with some 2x4s and small holed wire fence. Might take an hour or so but it will only take a few minutes to separate the rocks from the dirt. And you will always have the screen for your jobs if needed. I built mine with collapseable legs so it folds up and sores easily.

[@ivanyoungs504]

i fit mine over a wheel borrow

[@lloydbaker7099]

Great idea but I've seen them built out of steel framing with extremely heavy duty perforated metal

[@MrAlaskaJoe]

,Yep. Build a frame and use the heavy duty "square hole" hog wire. Something like 1/2" holes should work. Similar low tech solutions have been used for eons in mining and gravel pits. Set up at an angle. Larger roacks roll off front and dirt piles up behind it.

[@romeoneverdies]

this^^ i had a similar issue and its exactly what i did except i use the 6" grid wich is much more sturdy then layed the 3/4 -1" screen mesh over. i had 3-4ft high post and just let the dirt pile under (it was dirt with branches and rocks i dug up for a a walkway and i wanted to reuse the dirt elsewhere on the property) and i didn't even have a tractor (shoveled it) upon retrospect i would have made an 45deg incline so that it clears up on itself . (i had to remove branches and rocks by hand) all the material where from hardware store and not that expensive. )

[@BillRodgers2]

What you need is some 5 year old boys. My grandsons love to through rocks put about 5 in that bed and tell them to throw the rocks into the bucket. 25 min and it will be done. Give them ice cream

[@JimFinlayson]

I’ve been a subscriber for nearly two years. I like this style of video better than tractor wars or attachment wars. I also like the path you’ve taken with Johnny X - an experiment until you ultimately break it in such a way you don’t want to fix. These spring videos have a different style and they seem better.

[@kavemanthewoodbutcher]

Titan attachments makes a 3 point adapter for the JDQA. Using one to mount a back blade would allow you to reach pretty close to the house and scrape/curl the material away. How tight you can get to the building depends on how the back blade is constructed. Also, I use the tailgate of my small trailer as impromptu grizzly bars. Prop the tailgate up at an angle with a couple 4x4s about 4 feet long and dump onto the expanded mesh of the ramp. Rock goes into the trailer, pull truck forward to grab the pile if need be. Its not perfect, but its better than nothing.

[@rykbrown1893]

We had lava rock all over the place, and that stuff was down several inches. We made a sifting grill a little bit bigger than the bucket, just like you were making grate for a large BBQ. Just set it on a couple of saw horses. I dump dirt/rocks on it, then use the tractor bucket under the edge to raise/drop it a few times to shake and separate. Then I tip one end up to dump the rocks into a pile at one end of the setup. Once the pile of clean dirt below the grate gets large enough, I scoop it up with the bucket and pile it elsewhere for later distribution. (Same with the rocks, which will eventually get hauled to the dump if nobody wants them.) It's still a lot of work, but all the really heavy stuff is being done with the tractor, and it beats the hell out of picking them out by hand. But the dirt does need to be dry.

[@dannyboy9254]

I like how you and your mom work together as a team. I am new subscriber Nice job

[@TractorTimewithTim]

Uh, my wife? She is younger than me!

[@kevinsiedschlag9096]

Both of you did a great job

[@beezie22dub]

Keep up the great work. When your wife was saying you need these rocks for a attachment, sounds like its time to get a new one, hopefully fine the attachment your looking for separating the rocks and dirt.

[@danielcorkum1139]

I love the turbo whistle when you fire up Jonny X!

[@lanceharsh7025]

Love how well you two work together 🤠

[@StumpkillerCP]

Agree with those who recommended a tipple ("Screener"). We raised sheep and I made a (manual) tipple of 1/4" welded mesh to seperate the rocks and roots so we could use the rich soil from the pasture/sheep shed in our garden. Mostly now we grow in raised beds. Not every job requires a tractor. ;-)

[@steffen707-]

I have to do this very project at my house next year, glad to see the 1025r with 120r is the ticket!

[@liupakkadirtwork9385]

Tim you have a small backhoe! Perfect job for a steady hand on the controls. Russ. Esko, Minnesota

[@ddelano7408]

I got several steel screening grates from a local sand and gravel company. They are 3/4" and 1.5". The grates have to be replaced when a holes gets worn into them. It's time and labor intensive though! I also made a frame and attached 1/2" hardware cloth to it for smaller sized stone. I'd be real interested in an attachment you may find!

[@jimschmitz6192]

I am currently doing some landscape work in front of my house (professionally done of course) and would like to use decorative stone but this video shows why your better off using mulch, even though you need to keep adding more over the years. I also have a retired friend that had a backhoe business, he said he uses a shovel just about as much or more than actually running the backhoe.

[@chappie222]

Mini skid steer Tim!!!! Bauma light has a nice one!!

[@mercurymangarage6186]

Great video Tim and I agree. That would be a great attachment. Seems like something could be done with a bucket. Maybe a removable bottom to a filtering screen below. Love your videos and your faith. Keep up the good work. Thanks Len.

[@northernlights1840]

You two are an awesome team, just know the lord has blessed you richly!!

[@patcasiliojr.4930]

Perfect job for a four in one bucket!

[@jayusher576]

Looks like great back fill for the backyard....👍😏

[@countrycaretakerpropertyse7981]

Flat headed shovel are a blessing for jobs like this! Great video. There's nothing the crew and I hate more than having to hand rake and shovel Riverstone and other aggregate out of a garden!

[@Digidoc316]

Had the same problem throughout my yard! Old gravel parking lot was just covered up with a thin layer of top soil. Built a 4'x8' shaker table using a sawsall for a shaker motor. You scoop up a load and slowly feed the table. The rocks shake down to one end and fall into a pile. The dirt goes through the screens, hits a sheet stapled underneath, and directs the dirt to a pile opposite your dump side. For smaller jobs, you can use a drum-type compost spreader.

[@richardhowell2607]

Tim your pretty handy with a welder. It'll mean cutting up a good bucket but I think you know where I'm going with it. They sale rock screen for the gravel pit industry. With a little planning I believe you could come up with a separator that'll work for you. Necessity is the mother of all inventions.

[@michaelwillcutt2619]

They make a front bucket with a hydraulic rake for removing rocks and dirt clods it’s called a rock hound been around since the seventies

[@michaelwillcutt2619]

Rock Hound 72 b Landscape Rake They should still make different sizes google it . I’ve had mine for over thirty years it’s more than just removing rocks it scarifies dirt

[@Kcolby47]

Well Tim, I share your pain. Unfortunately I don’t have any great suggestions, just the same questions you had. So, I guess I’ll just enjoy watching you and Christy work 😉 Blessings.

[@ronharrison1776]

Loved the composite shoe story . lol

[@2naturesownplace]

@TTWT I can share what I did in 2003. One the first things I built when I got the John Deere 4100. Was a three-point adapter for the FEL. Which allowed me to put a rock rake on the front. And I used it to rake out an area like that.

[@chrismullins7014]

Have you looked in to a skeleton bucket I dont know if they are available with the jdqa setup.

[@andrewlara6814]

I think modifying a standard bucket would be the most cost effective and reliable method, any other attachment would sacrifice too much capacity from a compact/sub compact tractor. Make 2 very large holes to weld in the desired size of screen or make it bolt in so you can change screen size. Leave a strip of bucket in the center front to back for strength, add a bolt on cutting edge to the welded on cutting edge for rigidity and shake till your hearts content.

[@nichodson2956]

I have built a screening bucket for a tractor in the past. It "destroys" a bucket because it's only good for that from then on. But it held up to the digging force and did a pretty good job

[@emeraldedgesharpening]

Used an old wheel barrow and drilled holes in it for the gravel walkways on my house, I just scooped up the rock/dirt mix and ran a hose to wash the dirt through the holes, then I had a wheel barrow full of rock. Not efficient, but it worked great. I just moved the wheel barrow as I went. I should have tamped down the dirt better if I do it again someday.

[@tonyparris5278]

I agree with you about wanting a attachment like that. I've been trying to find the same thing for say compost or just dirt I seem to collect up from just out playing.

[@gfletchall1]

Hey Tim Great video! I have watched your videos on an off for a few years now as I was searching for a tractor. I settled on a 1025r and quickly realized that while the 1025r is amazing with the hills on my property it is a bit small to do the work I need to do so I ordered a 3046r that will be here in August. Any way I have always noticed your attention to Technical detail and determination to use the machine to do the work when jumping off and quickly using a hand tool would probably be faster in the long run. This was slightly puzzling to me until I went into your archive of videos and sorted them from oldest to newest and watched some of the older ones and found out you have a CS degree from Indiana (I think that is the school) and suddenly it all made sense. I also have a CS/Mathematics degree and in our line of work there are 2 number 1 and n and if you have to do it more than once why not automate it lol. Anyway, I thought that was funny how it seemed to click in my brain once knew that one little fact about you.

[@TractorTimewithTim]

BS CS from Illinois. Oh, and I'm also lazy! :-) Thanks for the kind words.

[@gfletchall1]

​@@TractorTimewithTim Keep up the good work. You are living out the dream of farm boys everywhere that went into IT and sometimes need a little tractor therapy.

[@turbo_veryfast4388]

You need a 48' rock bucket. Also called a skeleton bucket. Titan attachments has one Corning to Google. I hope it helps!!

[@graemetracybradshaw9871]

Build a Grizzle..I made one for my Kubota BX and it works great

[@danielclapp636]

Hey Christy, Hosta grows excellent in the shade. We live in central Maine and have Hosta on three sides of our house. It does better on the northern side versus the southern side. So tell Tim to get you some plants and plant them. Keep videos coming.

[@ajpsawmill4314]

We use the mini ex with a grading bucket or exactly the same way you guys did it. Make sure you add soil to grade it away from the foundation for water drainage

[@robb1165]

I have tried many methods to clear dirt from a rock bed. If its dry and the wind is blowing in the right direction a powerful leaf blower works fairly well.

[@timheyboer4786]

I do like hearing that little turbo. A mesh grate on a steep angle so the rocks roll to the side. Would your power rake separate them? The dirt would have to be dry for either to work.

[@jamiefox9215]

Another I seen a snow pusher with a back drag attach ment on good work tractors that pulls snow away from edges that would work great especially since you have multiple tractors okay 👍

[@bradmeacham6982]

I was thinking maybe that (HLA?) snow pusher with back drag you had at one point might have been able to sneak up to the house and pull the rock back. Mostly. I'm sure anything would still need final clean up with a shovel and rake.

[@robertbunch8362]

Do like the archaeologists do and use some 1/4" chicken-wire mesh as the bottom of a box, then hose the rocks down over the planter and let the dirt fall through. I had the same situation you have there and simply dumped it all on the patio and then slowly raked the gravel away from the pile and the dirt simply falls to the bottom of the pile as you rake. As I got more clean rock, I scooped it up and into the bucket to haul to a storage area.

[@rockinrranch1431]

Tim I see you have the lights up and are ready for Christmas early this year 😅

[@ericlaker1983]

🤣🤣🤣Crack me. Hilarious!! I can't imagine your going to do much with that big shovel. WOW HE SAYS !! love this episode. That rock is def a pain. Nothing easy about it. Think what you did with it was the best. It's like like you done a great level job with it with the drive curb there. Thanks for for ariat discount code. I wear those boots as well. Work hogs.. thanks for the entainment

[@jumpjasper5276]

Ya i ran into same problem. Need to build a grizzly screen plant. Do the screening off to one corner of property. Then pickup product. Takes more time, put easy solution. Take care, good luck

[@markashley9955]

concrete hand come along works great when doing it by hand.

[@Ryanm1565]

Great video guys and I was wondering what is the point of those blue tape x’s

[@mikewilson8265]

There are a lot of tow behind separators designed for beach cleaning. There are also screens that you can put between the jaws of a 4 in 1 buckets to make it into a rock separator.

[@bradw3313]

I welded a receiver on lower frame of my forks…..I long straight piece of square tube with a flat steel piece on end would allow you to reach, drop and pull. Also let’s you push material with the FEL….you can search these that are used to push dirt/material underneath houses that are on pier and beam.

[@truckerray7533]

What i wish i could build is a "rock screening seperator bucket" for the 1025R using some screening grate or trash can grate! ive been wanting this idea for the past 3 yrs cuz ive had the same problem & i have bout 3 huge piles of dirt & gravel mix that i wannuh seperate! I do have a couple smaller pieces of this grating, but not enough to make a loader bucket with. ive taken these grates that i have & placed em over the top of my wheel barrow, then ive taken the dirt/gravel mix & dumped on top of the wheel barrow. This does work, but its a little time consuming because then i have to shut the tractor down, git off, & then use "manual" shaking action by grabbing ahold of the wheel barrow handles. Like i said. . . . it works. . . . .but it sure is time consuming to say the least!!!

[@marcusblevins]

A rockhound is made for that we have one on the golf course and it can be used with skid steer quick connect or 3 point hitch

[@glennvengroff7235]

Best line Ever!!! "I'll pretend I have a bucket full" 😜

[@TractorTimewithTim]

Yea, I needed a rest!

[@greggmcclelland8430]

you could build a screen that straps onto the front of the bucket. Then you can "dump" the bucket and smaller particles like dirt will fall through the screen. Then after multiple shakes of the bucket, you can unstrap the screen and dump out the rocks. the other attachment could be an adapter Titan makes one to go from JD hook and pin to Skid steer. Then you could use one of the skid steer bucket screener buckets.

[@Jebedia47]

I had a similar problem with a flower bed at my house. I put a landscape rake on my front loader to loosen and drag everything out without taking out too much dirt. Then it was far away from the house to just use the bucket.

[@johnking1428]

Using the 4-1 bucket , open then back drag from the house..but use the gravel for the trail is great 👍

[@woofyw.2703]

Sounds like a landscape rake might be a good tool for this job Tim .

[@jdschini]

Your Hosta’s will grow just about anywhere except in direct sunlight. So they should thrive in this newly prepared shaded area. Nice job of repurposing the rock/dirt combo…it was an easy; and probably the most cost effective solution for your dilemma.

[@rougaroux2359]

Tim one way you can do it is drop the rock and dirt on a screen over a trailer. I’ve done that in the past and it does work as a separator.

[@toddstringfellow166]

Expanded metal on your grapple or even a wood/ lumder bucket works pretty good

[@eshott2935]

how would the power rake work?

[@TractorTimewithTim]

Not enough space in this area. In a larger space it would work great.

[@joshuaroberts7511]

I have the same issue going to get a skeleton bucket or rock grapple and put wire mesh on it, but if that doesn’t work out m going to dig a hole and cover them

[@Husky_cdn]

lots of great ideas in the comments, what about a skeleton bucket and maybe a garden hose to wash the dirt you cant shake off? just throwing my thoughts to the wind

[@mrpips000]

Build a sieve. Simple to do with a few 2x4s and some wire mesh. Grab a load with your bucket and dump on the sieve, dirt will fall through and rocks will roll off the front.

[@bucklinoutdoorpowerequipme3846]

Landscape rake in the receiver on the fork attachment would help

[@DLHFarms]

Tim, what microphone and audio recorder are you using? It sounds perfect and I don’t see a mic or wire on you anywhere. Thanks! Great videos!

[@jimmccullough1051]

Redline Systems makes a rock bucket, available with different spacing. the narrowest might work for most of that rock. I bought the 3 inch spaced bucket, not for rocks but for carrying firewood. Also, I build a sifter out of screen. First one was sized for a wheelbarrow, then I built a larger one to fit the tractor bucket. a simple 2x4 frame and mesh. With only one tractor I need to shovel the material onto the screen, with multiple tractors you could scoop with one then sift into the other.

[@davebeam8557]

Expanded metal will work really nice

[@jhcrc1050]

You should get a ditching wrist, if available, for your backhoe so that you can turn the bucket sideways to pull the dirt and rock away from your house. Then you would just need a flat bit for the bucket and that might help save a lot of foot work. Could of also dug out the front with the tractor bucket and then lay a heavy tarp or other fabric to take the rock from up against the house on to. Then fold and lift the fabric out with the tractor. Maybe a little less labor. Thank you for all the great content!

[@crazyfarmer2564]

The shovel works good . I haven't seen anything that would work in that small area.

[@odellhutson8495]

Have you not seen any of the scraper blades some users are making to attach to their backhoe buckets. I think that would be great for pulling away from the house. As far as the material, I think that is the perfect use to put it on trails for improving trails that do not get heavy traffic Otherwise, I would probably build me a screen box that you could dump it thru. It's still going to take some manual assistance to separate multiple components, rock, gravel, landscape fabric, debris is all going to vary.

[@American_Heathen]

I am running into the same problem when I flattened the old farm land. I used my trailer with a grate and raked out the debris, rocks and the dirt goes on the ground. I remember at the old house I use my neighbors big steel grate washed the rocks but the dirt was on the drive way. My co worker came by and took all the rocks. I ended up putting mulch in

[@benjaminmunn9476]

I built a rock screen out of old lumber and wire fencing that works fairly well at separating dry dirt. The rocks will still have sticks and other large debris but the dirt is good. The big trick is making it low enough for a full bucket to dump over it and still have enough rock storage height at the low end.

[@the_great_lord_ilpalazzo]

I could be wrong here, but wouldn't the back-drag of the HLA snow pusher have made it way easier to pull the rock away from the house? Maybe not go as deep, and make several lighter passes to pull the rock back. Then you could just come back with the bucket and scoop it all up.

[@michaelmactavish4445]

thats what we use our good hla blade we use it for snow removal,grading,dozing and back draging dabre wich we turned our hla pusher into year round multi purpose tool

[@jehu5813]

Fill bucket with rock dirt mix, Bolt/pin a screen to front of bucket, rock back and forth to remove dirt. Could have different screen sizes. Can also use water hose to rinse rock.

[@dog01b52]

Well, as some have commented on the 4 n 1 I'm also thinking about two things. First thought was about the landscape rake from Heavy Hitch, could it have placed at an angle to avoid the hose bib also or just used to scrape up the rock material. Then the second thought would be an attachment for the 4 n 1 bucket, that Heavy Hitch or Bolt on Hooks make you to use as a screening device. Something like steal grading for support with a finer cover on top. This would then fit at the back of the 4 n1 front lift section, allowing the dirt to separate into the smaller bucket section when the bucket is at a lifted angle. The 4 n 1 using the hydraulics could be jostled back and forth to loosen or separate more material from the rock. Was thinking of that back in the video "4 in 1 Bucket, First Use, First Impressions" in 2019. Just a thought.

[@scottboykin9487]

Titan Attachments makes a skeleton loader bucket designed to sift dirt, sand, etc.

[@fondy44]

Y'all didn't know Tim and Christy are volunteers in a top secret Deere-Pentagon project to develop a Luke Skywalker-like cyborg pedal foot, and Ariat boots offer the most compatibility with their 'upgrades' lol. I would've been into that brick wall for sure!

[@bradleymcclintock7771]

Good job old boy looking great. I'm sad my Johnny is in the shop 😢

[@Totalyrediclous998]

No rock rakes for Johnny x? Titan Attacents has a 60" rock bucket that be great for this project. Fits john deere loaders.

[@billfenner7084]

Maybe you can get another bucket for the loader, and drill holes into the older one but some screening material over the holes

[@dre04mach]

There's a rock bucket available for JDs from Redline Systems Inc. Been watching it for a while, I want the 2" tine spacing one... that's probably the best I can recommend... most of my rocks are a little bigger though.

[@TractorTimewithTim]

I have one.

[@dre04mach]

@@TractorTimewithTim How's it work? wouldn't it have been the better solution for this? Pick them up then hose off the dirt? Or were the rocks too small for it?

[@TractorTimewithTim]

Rocks too small.

[@HoneyDoHomestead]

"i think you could use them as a nice pad for your attachments (somewhere else)" 🤣, wow she even convinced me with that one.

[@jeffeverhart2312]

A landscape rake on an angle, the rocks will be pushed across the tines to the end, while the dirt goes through… Although your area is too small for that, you could dump the rocks on your driveway, sift with the rake, and broom the dirt back.

[@jdhogg18]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@kdegraa]

Is there a hole somewhere that needs filling? Great work getting the material out with the loader. I think a 4 in 1 bucket could be used to drag rock away from the wall.

[@martinlandry1975]

would a 4 in 1 bucket work for getting closer to the foundation with the bucket open and back drag

[@theopautsch2311]

Might look at attachments for a mini skidsteer

[@cynthiawillits1984]

Tim, Rhinos sells a riddle bucket for Casey You can weld on traction steel to create smaller spaces for rocks to pass through Cindy and Mark

[@oldschoolrepairshop2866]

Sounds like you need to make something,I am sure that there’s a video or two about a home made dirt separating.

[@David-lh1vp]

My father did this job with some home made screens (of varrying sizes) a wheel barrow and a hose, little by little it eventually got done. The only suggestion i have is to make your own or find a manufacturer who would be willing to help you create what you need.

[@montymatth2409]

Would a four in one bucket work for pulling the rock away from the house?

[@royosborn7869]

I built a small grizzly for this type of work (all of the commercial ones were too tall for my tractor to dump onto). I use a screen on top that has 3/4” openings. I pick up the rocks and dirt with my tractor bucket - dump it on the grizzly - which separates the dirt (works best with dry dirt) from the rocks.

[@frankolbrot2923]

I built a chicken wire screen, attached to a wagon tractor cart and found a used vibrate motor from a salt spreader. Works great. Scoop a bucket full onto the screen and turn it on.

[@gregorywshook1537]

To pull the rock away from the foundation I wonder if the rake or blade from heavyhitch on the loader (via the pallet fork frame) would do well?

[@williamgaines9784]

The pallet fork frame would allow to have a screened bucket fabricated from angle and expanded metal that would hang on the frame, similar to the stump bucket, and you would scoop and shake the dirt out leaving the rock inside. A lawn cart/trailer could be used to dump the rocks in so there would be fewer trips to the trail or ditch.

[@jondavis5783]

Front wood bucket with a smaller screen bolted on it. So you can change screen sizes.

[@ShaneZettelmier]

Here’s a thought. If you had kind of a grapple on top that was a landscaping rake with hydraulics where you can put the bucket down and sort of scoop it away from the edge of the wall into the bucket maybe just something that stuck out kind of far that you could adjust the tip of it angled like your landscape rake attachment and get right next to that wall from the top and then drag it back into the bucket. 🤔

[@timziegler9358]

Tim, I simply dug out the rock/dirt to an acceptable level and then added new black dirt. Best wishes.

[@zzvyb6]

For that size, my leaf vac does a great job, run at reduced rpm, back door open. Dirt goes flying, rocks come tumbling out the open back door.

[@TractorTimewithTim]

Interesting! I would think the poor impeller would take a beating!

[@levianulewicz9862]

If your handy with a welder or know someone that is take and old bucket cut the middle out keep 4 inches in the front then that’s like 1 1/2 flat bar and weld in slots at whatever spacing you need

[@johnheatherlees2129]

You need a 4 in 1 bucket to pick up the stones and not have shovel them into the bucket. A bucket without a spill guard would allow you to get closer to the wall to drag the stones away. I love my Burder MSL loader and 4 in 1 bucket on my 1025R Regards John

[@rederickrederick1513]

Always found the rocks very good looking in anybody else's yard !!!!

[@timstractoradventure4611]

I used my utility trailer with a expanded metal ramp. Not perfect but it did the job.

[@ricgar3036]

An ideal time too widen your driveway. Set your form at the right hand side of the entry door and run it all the way back or curve it back in sooner.