We Spent an ENTIRE Week Moving Rocks!

[@notvaporlocked5479]

The glaciers brought the rocks. There are no glaciers around now because they went back for more rocks.

[@kevinthompson1748]

Nice

[@twisthard]

LMAO!

[@jimjensen1414]

75 years ( +....??) of collected rocks, moved OUT of productive farmland, given their final resting place !!!! BRAVO !!!!

[@loisgustafson1558]

In Minnesota we call them rocks winter potatos......they come up every spring and always yield well! Ron

[@redneckcoder]

Yup. The only crop that is guaranteed to grow. I always laugh at those who say "why do you not just get rid of the rocks, one time and you'd never have to deal with them again". Not understanding the earth brings them forth every winter.

[@stevemccoy8138]

Lot's of fun moving rocks. I'm looking forward to seeing your Dad's video on the original Homestead. The Ol Timers picked up a bunch of rocks.

[@anneoreilly4900]

This was surprisingly fun to watch. Got me thinking how many hands pulled those rocks from the fields. A relatively small project yielding good results.

[@Prouddadofone]

Usually you get to the bottom of those rock piles and you find out why the rock pile was there! One giant boulder that couldn’t be budged in the horse and buggy days.

[@robertheinkel6225]

One day during my youth, I was raking hay with the Oliver 66. I was picking up rocks as I raked, placing them on the platform under my feet. By the time I was done raking, I could no longer use the brakes, because of the large pile of rocks at my feet.

[@ihguy2113]

like how you guys still have the old international trucks still great to see

[@robertquast9684]

That rock works well for building driveways. We dig down a few feet put a bunch of field stone and top with gravel for a driveway that holds up to heavy traffic. Moving rock piles is always interesting to find the reasons not to they started where they are usually a wet spot or a rock that was deemed unmovable

[@willyfindlay4398]

Our forefathers in Scotland biult drystone dykes / walls with the plough stones . A true skill. Good luck with biulding Welker Mountain 😊😅😊

[@HootMaRoot]

There is a 20 acre area near me that has dry stone dykes splitting it into about 2 acre plots. But many of them are half underground now as moss has grown and decomposed, but there is no big stones in the area now as they are all in the dykes or have been used in building foundations for houses and roads in that area over the last 100 years

[@willyfindlay4398]

@HootMaRoot where in the world 🌎 are you. ?

[@HootMaRoot]

@@willyfindlay4398 Scotland over in the islands

[@johndandrea8034]

Fixing up that old dump truck should be your next project. So cool looking,

[@rockcutroader9813]

I have to be honest, guys, your dad is the best and nicest guy on youtube !!! and of course you 2 are fantastic also. And the young man from 10th generation farmer is just behind you in 4th spot.

[@georgedavidson1221]

Dig a big trench through the slews and put them in there for drainage

[@FarmLife-peaceful]

The amount of work you guys put into clearing rocks is impressive! It’s amazing how much smoother farming will be without having to navigate around all that. Respect for the dedication and hard work! 💪🚜"

[@macster5187]

Even if you guys are just moving rocks, I'll stop to watch because it's always refreshing and fun to see what's happening. Keep up the positive vibe, cheers fellas.

[@MrGerritStok]

Well, i read lots of recommendations what to do, or could"ve done with the rocks. 😄At least you rocked around the clock for a number of days. Hill farmer blues you can make yourself now. The next generation will see what to do with them. Enjoy it now they"re in a better place. More conveniet when you can seed strait then around that spot all the time. Well done!

[@SteveNicoson-u1i]

Wow Wow Wow Wow That was a huge project moving all of those 🪨!!!!!!!!!! Great video Welkers!!!!!!!!! I can see why you wanted to move that pile of rock when it made you move machinery around it all the time. Getting that field flat again was a good move. I have never seen a pile of rock like that before in the middle of a field. Glad you were able to move them. Running the tillage machine over that area was a good move also. Kind of leveled the area off when done removing the rock. Amazing project. Fantastic results. Good job done. ✅ Thanks for everything Welkers. My blessings to you all. The Iowa farm boy. Steve 😊👍✅🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@punkathet6431]

that was oddly satisfying watching all those rocks tumble around...thank you gentlemen for all that you do

[@robertgraham3368]

As your dad would say that video was rockin'. Good job!!

[@lindanelson8400]

My goodness, that's a bunch of rocks! 🪨 Good to get them moved to a new home. 😊

[@S_Waltz]

This would be a great time for a Pet Rock Sale “While Supply Lasts” 💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥👍👍

[@MrWebfarmer]

Jeez I love watching this family! Clean family entertainment to boot.

[@tyler3148]

The locking mechanism on your dump truck is so cute lol

[@edcowles6414]

Back in the 60’s & 70’s when we would plow, disc, and drag before planting we would be out in fields with a stone sled picking up stones and dumping them in the fence rows. One day a guy asked my dad how much he would sell those stones for. I about fell over wondering why someone would pay money for rocks.

[@floridaguy1133]

You guys should get a rock crusher then you can have all the gravel you can want for your driveways and roads

[@AppalachianMountaineer1863]

I feel you guys. Worked digging footers and water lines for my grandma’s house. Let’s just say the name of the community Rock House. Is very accurate 😂

[@redneckcoder]

How come you guys never got the inboard battery maintainers so you can plug the trucks in during the winter and keep a trickle on them (along with battery warmers). Granted those have a cost each winter for power - but still cheaper than new batteries every year.

[@WelkerFarms]

@@redneckcoder I think because we would need like 50 of them and that means 50 extension cables with multiple power strips layed all across the floor waiting to be crushed when equipment drives in and out. They work great for a few machines here and there but for a large farm it is a challenge to equip every battery with a maintainer.

[@KevinChristiansen-i2q]

Great job cleaning the rock pile guys

[@MrDumbfarmer]

Wish you could magically move a bunch of those rocks down here, to southern, Iowa to line some of our creek banks with

[@dannypittman4766]

Maybe consider using some for landscaping around the house 🤔

[@UncleManuel]

My guess: Scott was listening to some *rock* music? 😁😁😁

[@leolarocque-v5v]

Let's get rocking Guy's

[@bradleyrobertson3185]

Seems like rocks multiply quicker than rabbits. Have some nice fences from the glaciers in West Central Indiana. Enjoy

[@stevebiddle8912]

You just moved several hundred tons of rock!! When I was a kid, we did this all by hand. Of course that was 65 years ago!! 😂😂

[@georgeking5746]

I might be weird but for some reason I love the sound of rock being scoped up by a piece of equipment, albeit an excavator, front end loader, skid steer.

[@stevecollins1196]

As always truly love the video guys much love and respect thanks for sharing ❤

[@indymark4064]

How do you find anything out there. It's like the moon. No landmarks, trees, houses, buildings. Then locate a pile of rocks. Must be great!!!

[@ryanc8188]

You should look into renting a crusher and gather up all your rocks and get some sweet gravel, since you have to train it in anyway.

[@KevinChristiansen-i2q]

Great video Welker Farms

[@randyscott8660]

I'm 64 and when we picked rocks it was with a crowbar and stoneboat

[@redneckcoder]

The only sure crop in Montana is rocks.

[@BuckWheat0591]

This reminds me of that song Rocky Mountain High

[@wayner806]

Or the bluegrass genre, “Rocky Top” Or KISS “Detroit, ROCK city” 😂

[@TheBest-ob1kj]

Lots of rocks! Open fields are much better❤ or a lot nicer!❤

[@douglaskuhn3781]

The Eagle needs some TLC!

[@robbiefrench4884]

I love the opening of your videos but I miss seeing old glory flying! The last shot I think you need so grease!😂

[@oxhousemedia629]

Do you see compaction in the following crops from running trucks on the field? Looking at the wheeling left in the uk we would see those wheeling in a stunted crop in those areas unless we ran a ripper through them

[@BrendanAus]

G’day Welker family, recently following, really enjoying! But that’s not a farm! It’s a prehistoric river delta with river rock and beach sand! You’ll make far more renting to the bikini clad girls and guys from our Australian Olympic beach volley ball team, and for much more entertainment!

[@KevinChristiansen-i2q]

Great job running the skid steer Bob

[@sallydunbar1683]

I'm always thrilled to see a post by Welker Farms!

[@leonardoldr]

Great as always! A small doubt, what does the spring at the end of the equipment does?

[@wainepate7191]

Hope you enjoy the snow. Greetings from Choteau

[@scalph999]

You guys should get some solar trickle charges for the trucks and equipment that sit most of the time. I use one for some of my stuff. I didn't realize you guys swapped the engine in the loader. Is there a video for that?

[@carlfalt174]

With the assistance of some neighbors you should bring in a rock crusher to make some gravel.

[@billpotmesil]

Love the smoke rings from the dump truck!

[@KevinChristiansen-i2q]

Great job running the payloader LegArms

[@harveystephens6115]

Too bad there is not a landscape rock market up there!!!!!

[@trentbowlen9897]

@ Welker family..almost every year you are moving piles of rock while simultaneously buying gravel for your roads..have yall looked into a rock crusher to produce your own gravel? There are a few channels on KZbin of models that probably don't cost more than what yall spend a year in buying gravel. Just an idea for more content, and unlimited free gravel?

[@guzzimon61]

You said you lacked gravel in that area. What you are lacking is a rock crusher !!

[@galegregory97]

Right tools for the right job

[@richedwards-v2u]

This video really rocks .

[@PhilGoldblum]

those rocks would make some nice gravel for your farm yard. Anyone nearby with a crusher to help put those rocks to use?

[@transmitterguy478]

If you guys had a rock crusher like Andrew Camerata's, you could crush those rocks and make some nice roads.

[@Mrcarlosspicey]

Just now realized that’s an Eagle interior. Large truck back in its day

[@charlesjenkins8078]

Great job.How did you get that much rock on those piles to start with?

[@jarcher5626]

You should get a rock crusher & make your own gravel for roads.

[@allanulen3809]

That loader is a beast.

[@ashlandgunclub1000]

You should be dumping them near a road, put up a sign rocks for sale and they will disappear in a few days 😂

[@BigBob473]

Like my grandpa.. That truck blows perfect smoke rings.

[@maxthegamer984]

Nick clean the shop

[@dominicdahlheimer6861]

My gosh Welkers~ ~some of those rock piles must have been there for years and years!

[@8950MAGNUM]

you guys are sitting on a gold mine, here in north central ohio, the yuppy's pay big dollars for field rock.

[@jamiesuejeffery]

This reminds me of Robert Frost’s poem, “Mending Wall.” I know this is not the meaning of the poem, but the truth is rocks appear out of nowhere and need to be stacked somewhere out of the way. According to Mr. Frost, good (rock) fences make good neighbors (again, not the meaning of the poem). One might as well stack them on the property line.

[@CuriousEarthMan]

Nice video, thank you!

[@Jacked97Ram]

What boost pack do you guys use?

[@Greg_Gatsby]

You need a rock crusher to make gravel. Far more useful than a pile of rocks. 👍

[@samwest9444]

I’ve found it’s better to live rocks with as little dirt as possible otherwise the weeds contribute to growing the rock piles

[@RonsHorse]

Take care of the old 4300 IH !! Drove one like that with 34 inch sleeper years ago

[@69dblcab]

Well done gents.. Thank you for the video.

[@fnitup]

That's a lot of rocks. Love the smoke rings the dump was putting off around 11:00

[@cz_ww2117]

A lot of potential gravel, just need a crusher for a day or two.

[@mikebougher3731]

Now you need to get a couple R/C rock crawlers for you and the kids and you can have fun with that rock pile.

[@piperdoug428]

@12:00 Scot working on his Chuck Norris face

[@marksmith9142]

Since those are historic rocks,do you need a permit from the Montana Historical Society to move them? PS,I’ve picked up rocks all my life,but you boys take to a new level!

[@vicentgres5308]

Os hace falta un cazo de piedras pero para la pala grande

[@ssboot5663]

God Bless!

[@brapperdan9554]

Rock out

[@davidmiller339]

maybe you should look into getting a small rock crusher

[@45Deere9500]

Going to see the return of Bob's Big Bud Bin Boom?

[@coltonkoepke3016]

You guys need to get a small rock crusher and use the rock around your farms and drive ways.

[@susantreibs6593]

Got enough rocks to make a nice fire pit and pizza oven/ fire place at you new home.

[@rodneycarr372]

You’ve got some sweet old trucks

[@LorettaThompson-pg6eq]

Nice video and god bless

[@died4us590]

I saw all those rock's, and i thought about the Goonies movie where the big gug says, "rocky road", when he tried the rocky road ice cream for the first timel. The pile did look like a road of rock when you pulled up to it lol. I always feel better than when i get a big mess like that cleaned up. When i bought my house, there was a huge mess of sticks and wild grape vines all weaved together about 40x60 ft., and it took awhile to cut it all out because there were little tree's trying to grow up through it as well, and kt just kept getting bigger, but last fall i finally cut all the vines and tree's out, burned it all up, and dug out the stumps left over, so i can finally mow over the area. I have a lot of medical stuff going on, and it took me from 2011 until 2023 to finally kill all the stuff taking over part of my back yard. I had a guy passing out voting pamphlets who has lived in the area for awhile tell me how much better the place looks since i moved in and cleared that all out, plus all the repairs i made on the house and barn improved thing's a lot. The bad, the county raised my property taxes due to improvements, that's just crazy. The only good thing, is that i paid 11, 000 for the land and house, because somebody stole the well pump, electrical box, aluminum screen's, tore the plumbing up, and it needed the roof shingled. I fixed everything, but paid a friend of the family to tear off the old shingles and put new one's on, so now i don't have a payment, which is a blessing with how much everything costs now. Now that the progressive MS i have is getting worse, I'm glad all that is fixed. I would not be able to afford the rent they charge where i live if the Lord hadn't been watching out for me. Most one bedroom flats even in the city are more than 800$ a month, plus the cost of water and sewage is insanely high along with insurance, and food, it would be hard since im disabled, and needing a couple surgeries, i don't know how people do it. I have a well and septic out in the country, and I've heard about people having to pay a deposit of 350$ to get the water turned on. I pray for those struggling to just keep a roof over their head, and if they have kid's, i understand now why i see more people holding signs asking for help. I try to help the people i see with a sign, because before 2020, i never saw people in town needing help. I don't have a lot, but i try to help when i can, because i have been blessed not to be in that situation. G-d bless everyone.

[@wayoutwest4944]

Have a blessed day!

[@bamajeff9041]

People will the rocks

[@brendanmingo3486]

The music to start videos reminds me of lord of the rings.

[@douglaskuhn3781]

Looks like you need a rock crusher so you can make your own gravel.

[@alancummings5008]

Ouch. Those rocks are so hard on that aluminum bed

[@codygreenwood1014]

Can you do a shop and tool box tours please

[@KevinHammer-j9u]

Just dig a big hole and push em into it. Then cover it up. Done it many times