Using A Grapple For Boulders, Stones And Dirt 

I personally like hearing and watching about your personal endeavors like the garden. It looks good. A little extra time and maybe a few trellises for those Cucumbers. Tomatoes are a great starter plant for new growers. They help teach you what to do and what not to do. I’d say it took me about 3 years to figure out what’s best for me. We had CC salad before dinner last night 😋. You got this. 🧬

I like the format at the end to address your comments. Your garden for year one is a learning curve and it looks great, although thats not broccoli. Keep the feet moving and the projects will get done.

I'm sure you will get the hang of gardening, it took us a few times to get the gardening going good!!

Nice equipment setup. Makes the project well within capabilities of the compact tractor.

Sam, really good instructional video on the grapple and rocks. Centering the rock load is critical. An unbalanced load can actually bend or twist your front end loader which is very bad. Thanks

2 years ago, when I decided to put in my first garden my neighbor was advising me. His biggest/best advice was having a garden is "exercise" You won't save any money. After exercising that summer I have really nice grass where that garden was. Tomatoes did well, but not worth a big garden. Someday I may do some tomatoes in a few raised beds.

Your mystery garden plant looks like either a squash, zucchini, or some other gourd like a pumpkin (I think it is most likely a Zucchini plant). Prep is easy, get a moldboard plow and roll it over in the spring the first day it hits 70, let it sit for a few weeks then rototill it, if it is still early rototill again about 3 weeks later. This gets a lot of the weed seeds to sprout and then die. You can also put all of your leaves over it in the fall and make a nice thick mulch layer that you incorporate when you turn it over in the spring. There is more to it and many arguments for and against this or that of what I have said but youtube has tons of gardening videos if you are curious. There also used to be the Victory Garden on PBS that taught me most of this as a kid.

Nice job and good information 👍

Good show, some good advice and technique.

You rock SAM!!!

If this was a truck commercial, they would drop those rocks in from 20 ft in the air, lol.

Good afternoon Sam. Great job and tips using the grapple. Once I have a boulder or a log clamped I just the give controller a lighr tap occasionally to prevent the bouder or log from slipping out. I have the same grapple and I did bend 2 of the tines on a log that was much larger on one side. I thought of trying to bend them back but instead decided to just leave them as is. After about a week they straightened back out on their own. I was surprised. Happy July 4th to you!

I’m right there with you. If I have 50 large rocks to load and I only get 20 of them moved without any damage it’s a win. If I get all 50 moved with damage it’s an epic failure.

Either zucchini or squash, great video

You better sneak over to your neighbors field late at night for your corn supply.

I like that raking tecnique (also saw a nice chunk of quartz as you were raking) I think I might put a long triangular section on the tines of the bottom rake so that it has a little more rigidity ...I was going to say make the T sectioned but in this case it would be counter productive I can't help it I look at things and find ways to improve them...if you do bend one it might be worth considering Thanks for sharing the big one is a squash of some sort veggies look great ..mostly ..did you start the corn inside I cant remember?

the unknown plant looks like a type of squash- yellow squash for example.

Good video but as for your potatoes you need to hill them or get a couple bails of straw and put it around the plants

Thanks for the info on the grapple. The random plant growing in your garden looks like rhubarb to me, but I'm not sure

Thinking you still should get a stone bucket for all the smaller ones . Why ? Because by the looks of things you have what I'd name Stony Acres .

Farmers use chemicals such as glyphosate and glyphosate ammonium to eradicate weed competition. For years, I avoided using them, but in order to achieve decent yields, it's virtually impossible. My rice harvest in Thailand increased from 3000 kg to 10 000kg, on my 15 acres, by changing methods. The primary reason for using chemicals was due to increased labour costs, which have increased 200% in the last 10 years, and the lack of interest the younger generation has in agriculture.

Just a couple of questions how old are you and what job of work do you do Sam 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏻

While I hear you explaining things, I'm not really paying the attention I should. I'm sitting here thinking "I really really really need that Kubota he's playing with right now. I should have one of those myself. It would make my life so much easier. I wouldn't have to grapple those rocks by hand any more." Meanwhile, the wife is saying "How many tractors does he HAVE? He has too many. We need one of those." I'm sorry about that. She gets tractor envy worse than me.

What Kubota tractor do you have?

The first unidentified garden plant looks like squash.