Rock Picking? Or getting them rocks off? 

Only Mike could make picking up rocks so entertaining! Thanks Mike

I imagine Mike used to be exactly the same, but he didn't have a camera. Just buzzing around everywhere asking himself questions, explaining tractor controls to the wind. Great stuff Mike!

It's good to hear the amount of time and effort it takes you to get us these great videos. We very much appreciate the effort, thank you. Please keep them coming.

Enjoy your talks & videos. Maybe you should have the picker behind the drills in spring!!!

You need a semi/low boy set up. I try and trailer anything i can if i'm going over 25 miles. Especially track machines.

Have you thought of a landoll or similar trailer to haul tractor and rock picker to field. 75 miles seems like a lot of wear and tear on tires and wheel bearings, just curious

Are those buttons/controls above the tail lights on the tractor?

Great video

75 miles? At what point do you haul it with a seni

I love how he asks questions to himself makes me laugh every time 😂

We all appreciate the extra effort and huge amount of time invested to bring us and upload your videos; thank you!

Mike why don't you float equipment like this on a semi to the field

Well I never knew they existed. Growing up on our family farm us kids were the rock and stump pickers 😂

19:05 farming is not about profit, its all about whos land and crop looks the best from the highway so the other farmers get jelly

Mike comes home from work all dirty Ashtyn, “ mike why are you so dirty?” Mike, “ I’ve been out in the field getting my rocks off”

Every time I saw a rock hit the bucket I’m like “bingo” or “goteeem” or “eat it”! 😆 I feel like you do the same thing even when the camera ain’t on lol 😆

Hey Mike, with all the driving you do wouldn't it be worth trying a JCB fastrac, you could even trial a low loader trailer

You are the only guy I know of who needs a tractor capable of getting a speeding ticket on the highway.

It’s amazing how Mike can make a 32 minute video of rock picking entertaining. Love the videos.

You could be a year behind I wouldn't care. I appreciate the extra time and effort you put in. You vids are funny interesting and informative. I totally feel your pain about crappy service.

Watching this video reminded of one of our neighbors in Wyoming. He and his brother were working for a farming family driving rock harvesters. They were working a freshly opened area with hills and valleys and he came upon what he thought was a rock pile. He got out and saw that an area about 100 square meters on top of this higher hill was covered with what looked like tree branches and lava rocks. When he looked closer at them he realized that most of it was indeed fulgurite material from lightning. Being on top of the natural hill out in the middle of nowhere (kinda like Saskatchewan) it was probably many years of lightning strikes. They ended up leaving the "pile" because it was a foot or more deep. The landowner said in the last 100 years of his family in the area these fields had never been cultivated so no telling how many eons lightning had been striking the hills around there. They collected a bunch of the stuff and took it to a local college and they didn't want them... they had plenty of those samples already. That hill became the dumping ground for rock clearing in that area. Thanks Mike!

Did you guys know every time a Canadian says “sorry” a tombit is born

Imagine if Mike had a Farm Sim map, you’d spend most of your time traveling to the fields lol. Is there any benefit to towing some of this stuff on a trailer so you can go faster and use less hours on these machines? Not even sure the economics of it just curious.

As someone who also farms I can't believe I just watched a rock picking video 🤷‍♂️

The dead head jokes cracked me up. Currently dealing with that problem in the US now

I also like how you explain everything Mike good job

You need to get a “Rock Drone” with LED Lights so you can map out the rock locations at night while you are resting in your “Easy Boy Recliner” with a 🍷in your hand. 🤣😂 Not Actual drinking while driving since you are “Remotely Cruising” the fields.

Hilarious as always! Can't imagine driving a tractor 75 miles just to pick rocks. Here in the Ozarks where we grow rocks, we still pick them by hand. We normally get around a dump truck load per acre on most fields. That is a good time!

Man u light up my day everytime u post

I found the left hand tire on them rockpickers in transport mode can fire some rocks on the rear window on gravel roads

Mercy you guys have a lot of grain bins already I guess putting up some new ones will help not having that many bags in the field which would save you money because 0f animals that cause damage.

Everyone driving by and seeing your Loopers on would know it's the farmer himself out there

You call those rocks? Come to my farm and I’ll show you rocks 😭

I think "Professional Rock Picker" would be a pretty cool job 😅

75 miles to get to the field? Jeez... I can't even imagine the size you have there.

Mike I love watching you you're hilarious especially when you're picking rocks keep up the good work brother God bless you for Christmas

Beautiful country ya got there friendo! Love the videos, keep em coming!!!

Gonna be honest. I never heard about Saskatchewan until I found this channel LOL

We really need a detailled farmtour on all this Mike!

Getting rocks off and edging?? Buddy your just too much for me, I love it 🤣

Definitly the craziest farmer on YT..;-)

You can pick your friends, you can pick your rocks, but you can not pick your friend’s rocks...

I had to laugh, Mike shows how to use the rock picker, which is cool! and after the demo he completely misses the rock that is ½ meter or less in front of the picker and 2 more that are just beside it (@11:40 on video!) I think Mike needs to visit his optometrist soon! hahahaha!

Why do farmers plant the rocks if they have to get hunted out with the rock picker?

I assume you've been farming that land for a long time. Wouldn't all the rocks been cleared by now?

Did you get the dirt for “MAJOR FILL” from the gopher mounds 😂🤣

You don’t have to be stoned to do it but it helps

Mike intended to go edging but ended up getting his rocks off

Mike is most definitely underrated in the RU-vid world 😂

The dead head joke cracked me up pretty good. I love how everything is an absolutely gong show all at once

Liked the scenery at the 6 minute mark. Got some laughs out of this one!

Back in the 80s when I was in jr high school I spent 2 entire days picking rocks out of a field for my uncle by hand and unloading them by hand and what a hot boring job that was I got so tired of looking at rocks

First video I see from your channel and I gotta say it's a good one. I don't know a lot about farming but I do find it's interesting. Thank you for being so informative about it all!

Mike, listen here. I'm pretty sure you do not have as much stone Pr aker as we have, last fall I picked almost 3.5 tons of stone from a 40 acre field (my only field)

thanks mike for making time to give us these great videos, enjoyed the video thanks

Interesting Mike to see the Rock Picking machine and the way how you are practice it! Finally the speed of the rotor was down a little, to get it a little more gentle🤣 Question, why there was no greasing operation? Or is this rotor running so infrequent that it wasn't needed? Wow, these roads are empty in SK, love it buddy! Such an contrast with where we are living. And like the landscape as well.

About time you washed off that bird crap😂

It’s crazy how different the landscape is.

Mike What are your two hyd pipes for? As our third service is built inside the loader boom.

Hi Mike I didn’t realize how much effort goes into uploading your videos. Love and appreciate them and we tune in regularly here in Ireland 🇮🇪 broadband is only marginally better over here 😁😁 keep up the good work . Kieran

You're right they're not mountains their heels Hills and Valleys I know what you mean

In just 2 more evolutions, there will be a Drone fitted with LiDAR, that will “Map” the whole field to a 600 mm depth, then the Rock Picker will download the Map and the program will determine the most efficient tracks to pick and dump, even call for a Digger for large deep rocks. All without an operator present, they will be in an Air-conditioned office, perhaps 100s of miles away.

Just gonna say , mike you left your Wally lights on 🙈, that was such a funny video . Dead head , love it 😂😂😂😂

Far more exciting to watch rock picking then do rock picking, still not sure how I got here but I’m watching rock picking.

Mick is rocking.. 😂

Wish our fields had rocks like that where I farmed in Ontario if we had rock we needed to use the stone rake first but never had we picked by hand and with fork lol

I grew up across the highway from where you were picking rocks!

Great video, Mike. Appreciate all the time and work you put into these for our enjoyment. Happy Holidays and God Bless.

Love the videos as always! Thank you

Never try to pick a car! Speaking of which, what's the biggest rock you've had to get out of a field? Thanks.

Do you have a mid point storage shed, so your not driving 100 miles towing equipment. Or, what is the mile radius of all your fields?. Just discovered your channel. The guys in England 🇬🇧that I watch would faint😢 seeing you driving 50' headers up the road🤣. They stuff 10' headers along hedgerow lanes, with traffic😮!! Cheers from Hillsboro, New Hampshire. We're "the granite state! All Rock..😷✌️🇺🇸👍

Mike How many new Bins are you building

A rock pile. Nobody had to deal with those anymore. On the beach line of old lake Agassi I used a degelman, but generally the one with a big fork no moving with a chain, just hydraulics, because we had massive rocks. 2 local kids riding dirt bike next to a field my dad had just rented wrecked a dirt bike as a farmer previous had dumped rocks in the ditch, which used to be common practice. For payback the shoved dirt into the crankcase of his brand new Allis Chalmers 440. Thank god even back then warranties covered such things. I never saw the 440 as he traded it as soon as the 8550 came out, but it was a loud animal from what I understand. The 8550 took Stone Age 440 to Bronze Age. I would sure live to farm like you. I got acreage in CRP, 600 if you want in. It just take a lot of capital those first several years. Undoing what the CRP program had us do. Create wetlands by plugging ditches, planting rows of trees. Those wetlands have taken hold pretty good, lots of ditching would have to be done, some of it my dad took out from ranch, so biting countless rubble piles of old trees and lots of rockpiles. But it good land if it rains, which it didn’t in the 80s. And if Jimmy Carter would have sold grain to Russia. Those 2 thing’s bankrupted all the small time farmers, unless the had a big dairy farm or beef cattle or hogs to supplement income. Mostly they failed as well. My dad started in the early to mid 70s when wheat was near $7 a bushel and he could get 60 every year. He quit at just over $3 a bushel when drought was on and got barely 30 maybe 35 bushels. Hats off to farmers, people don’t understand you all gamble a lot every year. There is no way to guarantee that you won’t lose money in any particular year

Trudeau IS a dead head. LOL. Awesome video ,as usual. Makes my day.

Only Mike can make a 75 mile tractor drive and “rock picking” interesting. LOL!!

I love your sense of humour your videos are so funny! 😂🤣

Wow, you have 3 Degelman rock pickers. I only have one, a Degelman 6000 Signature series and its amazing how much rock it has picked over the years. I have had neighbors want to rent/borrow it but it is only for my property because of the amount of rock I have to deal with. There will be rocks to pick even when I am gone.

I can’t remember a video that shows you driving by a home or farm when you are moving from field to field. How far away does your nearest non family neighbor live

I can't stop watching your videos Mike, you're so interesting as well as your videos but I can't help but think you're just a teeny tiny bit biased to Agco. Btw, I'm also a farmer in Saskatchewan

At about 32:30 there is large game ahead of you and to the right.

Wondering....with these long moves wouldn't a flatbed or lowboy make sense for moves like these(small tractor and implement)? I'm only guessing but the time savings?

Lol.. I pick rocks exactly the same way with commentary, it’s my favourite job on the farm.. So stress free.

LOL were gonna wait until the next election... love this guy he is funny

What you should do is put it on a large external drive, you can purchase cases and HDD's for cheap these days, a 4TB drive should be enough, then edit and upload to RU-vid, after that you can schedule the release of the video's as you desire you can do it on a weekly basis where you gather footage, upload, schedule and back to work for a week.

Did I hear you right? 75 miles to the field? WOW! Have you considered a JCB Fastrac? You will love the roadability and speed.

I still remember the days when dad would send us out to the fields to go pick rocks and put them in the loader bucket. Hard work back then but now are viewed as the golden days.

You never want to pull the loader quick connect all the way out (completely separate). If the connections dry out they will cause a leak on reconnection and will have to be replaced. This is common for Fendt loaders. You got it right Mike! 👍🏻

Wait now... Did ju just say 86cm snow? Holy fuck my cow thats alot of snow 😂 but i think you mean 6 to 8 cm😉 but i can be wrong🤔

Your going to have to check into Starlink to solve your internet problems down south.

Good luck picking your rocks 🪨 Mike

Hey Mike I got a Question. Can you do a Video with Ashton going around the Hockey Hall of Fame in Swift ?

Those are peanut rocks you should come to Manitoba and look at the rocks we have

Mike when or however you upload the new videos is cool! I know you’re busy and out in the middle of no where! Us country folk know the internet and phone service struggle!

Hey Mike it looks like your front end loader needs some grease

I woulda took the first one too... ummm the one on the left... wutever... cuz it looked like it had one less cutting of weeds under it!@!! lol wutever...

Mike. With the distance of road travel you do, does the farm buy a lot of new tires or do you trade out the equipment when the tires are near done?

What about easing that big rock in the ground out with the loader? 😃

took till 19 to see first rock then goes round picking them up by hand having a dog and barking yourself comes to mind.

Ah man! Another good one! So sad to see it end. U need to build yourself some camera mounts so u can use 2 hands. Nick Welker made a video of what he uses and has built.

It ok Mike as long as you get them out I'm happy