Like the principal. I would have thought the rocks could have been used as wind breaks across the fields. They have to go somewhere but depositing them where they can protect the field against prevailing wind would aid productivity, soil erosion and conserve water.
Hey Jay. Really nice video I am from India I have built a rock picker we also used belted chain for conveyor web and i would like to ask what kind of rollers you have used in this machine to minimize the wear and maintenance. Really appreciate your suggestions
This is set up just like a potato digger: steel nose rollers and shakers. One difference is that none of the belted chain has rubber on the links, although many of the rollers do.
Yes it is a lot. You only have to dig spuds once with this many rocks before realizing you need to pick the rocks beforehand… we’ve been there. Thanks for watching!
I had engineers tell me that "we are running out of aggregate...". I'm thinking that we aren't running out; we just don't have them in the "correct" places.
We actually tried that first on this field, but the rock box on the side filled up every fifty feet which resulted in a bunch of little piles in the field that we had to go pick up anyways with this machine. Decided to just get it out of the way before planting.
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Thanks a lot Jay. That turned out super cool. For anyone not in the industry who’s seeing this, we’re storing russet potatoes for a processor to make French fries, hash browns, tater tots, and other frozen products. We’re storing about 3200 tons a day. Each building holds about 14000 tons of potatoes. We fill a building a week roughly. We are sizing off smaller potatoes into a separate building for hash brown shreds and tots, the potatoes for fries are going in to the larger line in the second building. We flow about 5 tons per minute. 3 harvesters and about 2 dozen trucks. This team is one of about 11 on a large farm based around the Tri Cities area.
Washington leads the world in potato production. This field was around 38 tons/acre (85180 kg/hectare). Our best fields are exceeding 45 tons/ac (100800 kg/hectare) and we have exceptional fields that exceeded 50 tons. Or, about 270,000 large fries at McDonald’s (figuring 90% processing efficiency).
This is awesome content thanks for sharing your work. I loved Josh Parkinson's videos and was sad to hear his passing. Not sure but I'm guessing you might be related. Keep making videos these really highlight the high intensity row cropping in the PNW.
I really love Josh's videos as well. He is my cousin. He came out and did some great video work on our family farm in 2019. It was hard to see him go. He would always encourage me to take pictures and catch video of things, because in 20 years you'll look back and not believe that you used to do it that way. Thanks for watching!
This is in central Idaho. We usually only have to pick once if we do a good job. After that, the rock levels that are left are pretty well maintained by our potato rotation.
@@rickcinway2312 yes the frost does bring up some rocks, but not too many. Because the ground is going into a potato rotation, the rocks are maintained from harvesting the potatoes.
I will admit before we put a digger in the ground, I had no idea that many rocks were going to come up. We had to start getting creative on where to put all of them. That was after we built a two mile farm road two feet high.
It's fairly significant, especially since it's not really built for digging rocks. I would say we get about 100 acres out of it before we need to go through substantial repairs on belted chain, bearings, and wear parts.
Hi Marv, so we have had people ask for the small stuff. Most people use it for pigs or chickens. Grain is sold by the bushel and the small stuff for feed is sold by the ton. But yes there is quite a bit of interest in use for feed. Thanks!
Found your site while looking for rock picking videos. Yours is by far the mother, father, uncle, brother of all the rock pickers I've seen so far. Where I grew up in western Nebraska there were few if any rocks. Some of the crops included potatoes and sugar beets besides wheat, corn, soybeans. Look forward to seeing you harvest spuds.
Thanks Marv! We have definitely worked on this process over the years. This is my Dad’s brain child. Obviously we can’t get every rock, but harvest is 100% better and the field stays surprisingly clean in years following.
@@jayparkinson1884 Thanks for reply Jay. Wondering what you were raising on this ground before and after you removed the rocks. Can't imagine you could raise spuds with all those rocks. Digger would have seem to have difficulty differentiating between rocks and potatoes. Also wondering where this ground is, Idaho, Washington?
We did build a two lane farm road 3 feet high and 2 miles long. All the rocks in this video came after that though… we haven’t asked if anyone would be interested. We all kinda have a lot of rock around here. Thanks for watching!
Yes we made some modifications like a straight blade, heavier belted chain, and we took out the roller table on the elevator to simplify repairs. Thanks for watching John!
...Отлично , просто смотрю и восхищаюсь . Там наверняка остаются какие-то мелкие камни , и мне интересно , нужно ли второй раз очищать одно и то же место , чтобы получить лучший результат ?
Hi Garth, this is a 1999 Spudnik 5640. It doesn’t have the original boom. We didn’t want to pay new for one so we just grabbed one off a scrapped double L digger.
