It would seem that the crusher would be right for those limited areas where you have those pockets of dense rock in your fields, but the way that it pulverizes regular dirt would do more damage than any benefit and be WAY TOO SLOW. Just my observation.
hi Conley , I m farmer in east of France and i can say i know very well this rock crusher brand. Bugnot is the name of the founder of this manufacturer of farm machines since more than 100 years. This firm is located about 60 miles far from my farm. For your information ,52 is the number of county where they are. thanks for your vids , bye from France
Someone probably already said it but in my short time doing farm work. I would think using a spring tooth to pull the rocks up out on top of the dirt, then use a rock rake (harley rake) to put them in to furrows then crush them or get a rock picker. Its a lot of passes and different equipment, but in the long run I think you'd be better off.
We did a little more thinking and a rake probably wouldn’t work since our rocks are hand size and underneath the ground. So the crusher is actually doing exactly what we want and crushing rocks in a 8 inch depth area
I know you lot do things differently but here in most of the UK for growing potatos we have to run destoners in order to not have stones or large clods in your beds. They don't get rid of them but they put them in a row between your beds and then you run over them with tractor. It's a very good system and much quicker than crushing or burying them
@@kygreenskeeper8326 bloke I did work on did 5000 acre at one point both seed potatoes and ware. Now it's abut 3500. The land I was working on was mostly Yorkshire wolds so chalk and clay. You'd run sandy land Easily with our setups
That is going to take a shit ton of fuel and zillions of man hours. On top of that - the next time you plow you're going to bring a new batch of rocks to the surface.
I watch a lot of farmtubers. Your family does a ton of soil prep, I know a lot of that is do to the soil type & trying to keep it from blowing away or sand fighting. But, your farm has the most Beautiful rows!
@@conleybanman I live in PA, MUCH different soil type AND our farmer’s fields are NEVER flat! We live in valleys between mountains. Their fields are more like rollercoasters. Most of the farms around me are Amish too, no tractors, just horses. They’re the hardest working ppl I’ve ever met.
Excellent travail mon ami...mais j'ai une question importante pour moi et j'espère une réponse de votre part..quel est le chemin technique que vous suivez pour cultiver du blé dur ou tendre...par exemple, la quantité de graines par hectare et le type et la quantité d'engrais que vous utilisez... Merci de répondre
Only plows I seen usually go round and round glad you pivoted straight then I could see it reversed. In Iowa plows are in shed, not been used in years. All no till or minimum till.
I have a lot of sand like that, here in SW OK. It's gonna be a nightmare when that starts blowing. Impossible to stop!😝 You could use a rock "picker" instead, but it probably wouldn't get smaller rocks. And the smaller pebbles are what kill ya on the peanut grades. People here planting more peanuts vs cotton, because of high priced "N"!
@@conleybanman Hey, I remember THAT. That is a nice portable cleaner. We're (you too) are in a drouth. And seeing sand that dry, behind the rock crusher was scary. If you can get them up, a THICK stand of oats could help.
Great videos! Looks to me like you're running that rock crusher the wrong way around. I'd say you're supposed to reverse the tractor. Look up a Prinoth mulcher here on youtube, and you'll see what I mean. The rotator should smash the rocks down on the forward stroke, not lift them up.
@@conleybanman They're not meant to be pushed into the ground. They are crushed against the ground. You use the ground as the anvil for the rotating hammers. Unless there is a metal plate inside the crusher. However, it would make less sense to burn up a wearplate in the machine when the ground does the same use. But like I said, look up the prinoth mulchers. Or a mine clearing flail for that matter.
@@conleybanman Right on. That thing would be great for driveways or other places that would get packed back down. Not sure about application to a field as you are trying.
Well we have a few field where there’s a stripe across the field with pure rock our plan is to get rid of those rocks we just did this field because we wanted to plant peanuts on it so we figured it was a good field to test it out
There's the question right there... Is it a 'crusher' of rocks... To crush a rock you must crush it against something... Putting it between a massive force and an immovable object... The ground is not an 'immovable' force, and there is no part of the machine that acts as one... The spinning hammers pound the rocks deeper into the ground is all. This is a rock crusher... czcams.com/video/IS7CxmhgB3g/video.html Notice how the cam operated moving part acts on the rocks... Each crunch breaks the rock into smaller chunks and they slide further down into a narrowing opening... All the while being smashed against the back wall... You have a pusher of rock. You'll find a layer of rock free dirt on top of a dense layer of previously exposed rock. That's not a bad thing if you don't plow deep. And if you don't mind them working back out of the ground.
Well it is a crusher since it doesn’t pound them into the ground it pounds them up onto a hard sheer plate and literally crushing it into tiny pebbles. And we can’t have the rocks in the ground because we’re planting peanuts. When we dig up the peanuts later it’ll dig up any loose rocks and then the combine ends up eating all the rocks thereby hurting our combine
Is a rock 'crusher'? Or a rock pummeler... Does it literally grind the rock or just beat them further down into the dirt. Run this a foot down, then when you plow a foot and a half, you drag the rock right back where you started. But I like the 'let's see what happens' attitude... Thought I might be the only one.
Yea it crushes the rocks it wouldn’t work if it would just pushed them in the ground. It wouldn’t take long and they would come right back to the surface
It would be faster to pick, then spread crushed rocks with a different crusher in this field. But it would also mess up soil biology layers as well, not like they care because they just plow it all anyway. Soil looks like a friggin desert; can't believe they can grow anything.
It would seem that the crusher would be right for those limited areas where you have those pockets of dense rock in your fields, but the way that it pulverizes regular dirt would do more damage than any benefit and be WAY TOO SLOW. Just my observation.
hi Conley , I m farmer in east of France and i can say i know very well this rock crusher brand. Bugnot is the name of the founder of this manufacturer of farm machines since more than 100 years.
This firm is located about 60 miles far from my farm. For your information ,52 is the number of county where they are.
thanks for your vids , bye from France
It would be nice to see more about the rock crusher in the future.
I wanted to but then got busy with plowing again so we’ll see when I’ll have time
Someone probably already said it but in my short time doing farm work. I would think using a spring tooth to pull the rocks up out on top of the dirt, then use a rock rake (harley rake) to put them in to furrows then crush them or get a rock picker. Its a lot of passes and different equipment, but in the long run I think you'd be better off.
Yea now after getting the rock crusher we been thinking about getting some sort of rake but not sure what kind and where to get them
Just about to say that
We did a little more thinking and a rake probably wouldn’t work since our rocks are hand size and underneath the ground. So the crusher is actually doing exactly what we want and crushing rocks in a 8 inch depth area
@@conleybanman I don't know what the do in the US for potatoes but in Europe we ridge the land up and put it through what they call a destoner.
Yea that could work
I know you lot do things differently but here in most of the UK for growing potatos we have to run destoners in order to not have stones or large clods in your beds. They don't get rid of them but they put them in a row between your beds and then you run over them with tractor. It's a very good system and much quicker than crushing or burying them
I like that idea of dealing with rocks.. how much land do you guys grow potatoes on?
@@kygreenskeeper8326 bloke I did work on did 5000 acre at one point both seed potatoes and ware. Now it's abut 3500. The land I was working on was mostly Yorkshire wolds so chalk and clay. You'd run sandy land Easily with our setups
@@thomasjibson4372 I can't imagine working that much land.. I live on a 600 acre cattle farm in KY... Just raise cattle now
Interesting how different areas do stuff differently, on our farm we just have a littl bucket with gaps in it to shake the dirt out on our skid steer
Great video Conley
Thats the most useful tool for every grower
I am addicted to your videos! Being from Ohio this is all extremely interesting to me! I can't wait for the next video.
Soil looks like a desert, how anyone could grow anything, let alone a crop, is, well, I can't find the words to describe.
That is going to take a shit ton of fuel and zillions of man hours. On top of that - the next time you plow you're going to bring a new batch of rocks to the surface.
We already did and so far no rocks
@@conleybanman That's good news.
That's just like the thing we grind stumps with it get really soft behind it
I watch a lot of farmtubers. Your family does a ton of soil prep, I know a lot of that is do to the soil type & trying to keep it from blowing away or sand fighting. But, your farm has the most Beautiful rows!
Thanks I have to say I do love the look of our red dirt
@@conleybanman I live in PA, MUCH different soil type AND our farmer’s fields are NEVER flat! We live in valleys between mountains. Their fields are more like rollercoasters. Most of the farms around me are Amish too, no tractors, just horses. They’re the hardest working ppl I’ve ever met.
Definitely for windrowed stones. Lots of fuel wear and tear / acre to run it over a whole field
Oh yea for now we’re just running it over a few fields we want to plant peanuts it and maybe one day we also get a rock rake
@@conleybanman czcams.com/video/PXv60lF2lnk/video.html
Excellent travail mon ami...mais j'ai une question importante pour moi et j'espère une réponse de votre part..quel est le chemin technique que vous suivez pour cultiver du blé dur ou tendre...par exemple, la quantité de graines par hectare et le type et la quantité d'engrais que vous utilisez... Merci de répondre
You need a Harley Rock Picker from Minnesota !
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Only plows I seen usually go round and round glad you pivoted straight then I could see it reversed. In Iowa plows are in shed, not been used in years. All no till or minimum till.
Yea I guess some areas it’s just not meant to be plowed
@@conleybanman thanks for replying interesting the different practices.
You need a rock rake to put them in one row and then crush them. We have rock pickers on our farm.
Yea that is an idea we’d cover acres a lot quicker like that
Soft task, no one big rock in the field!
I didn’t realize you had to deal with rocks. I assumed it was all sandy soil.
It is majority sandy soil but a few fields do have it pretty bad with rocks
The Field is really Dry. It would be interesting to see when field is little wet.
I have a lot of sand like that, here in SW OK. It's gonna be a nightmare when that starts blowing. Impossible to stop!😝 You could use a rock "picker" instead, but it probably wouldn't get smaller rocks. And the smaller pebbles are what kill ya on the peanut grades. People here planting more peanuts vs cotton, because of high priced "N"!
We do have a nice shaker system that would get rid of all those smaller rocks in peanuts
@@conleybanman Hey, I remember THAT. That is a nice portable cleaner.
We're (you too) are in a drouth. And seeing sand that dry, behind the rock crusher was scary. If you can get them up, a THICK stand of oats could help.
Yea after this we wanna quickly water it and pack it back down. We’re lucky that we actually have irrigation pivots
What kind of tool boxes are those in your truck?
Custom made from freedom fabrication
@@conleybanman Thank you! Dealing with a small CPL and gooseneck is a pain , that looks like the ticket! Enjoy your videos-
Great videos!
Looks to me like you're running that rock crusher the wrong way around. I'd say you're supposed to reverse the tractor. Look up a Prinoth mulcher here on youtube, and you'll see what I mean. The rotator should smash the rocks down on the forward stroke, not lift them up.
you want the rocks to lift up so that it can crush them not bury them.
Around here if you’d push the rocks in the ground they’d come up after a year
@@conleybanman They're not meant to be pushed into the ground. They are crushed against the ground. You use the ground as the anvil for the rotating hammers. Unless there is a metal plate inside the crusher. However, it would make less sense to burn up a wearplate in the machine when the ground does the same use.
But like I said, look up the prinoth mulchers. Or a mine clearing flail for that matter.
That type of rock crusher is ment to deal with rocks on the surface of a road after windrowing them up with a grader.
In the future we might get a rock rake but right now we don’t have the manpower
Wonder what that crusher would do with the granite rocks up here in Iowa, baseball size to giant dinosaur eggs.... lol
Might need a 9620rx ....lol
Haha probably but I’ve seen videos of people using this style to crush river rocks and it just eats em right up so it could probably do it
Does this machine crush the rocks and let them to be sand?, Conley
Pretty much it just turns them into tiny pebbles
Is it even worth it to drive it that slow (as it needs)? You'll be in that same field for 2 months at that speed..
The thing is the tractor can’t pull it harder
@@conleybanman Right on. That thing would be great for driveways or other places that would get packed back down. Not sure about application to a field as you are trying.
Well the plan is to water and to pack it back down
GREAT STUFF!!! Have you looked into integrating cover crops in your rotation, specifically, Gabe Brown of agriculture????
Oh yea we love our cover crops. That’s what all of our wheat is. But any acres that are going to be planted with peanuts has to be plowed first
The rock crusher looks like a horrendous use of your time/ diesel/ tractor hours. Surely a rock picker would a better option?
Well we have a few field where there’s a stripe across the field with pure rock our plan is to get rid of those rocks we just did this field because we wanted to plant peanuts on it so we figured it was a good field to test it out
Can u explain GPS system in tractor with the of vedio
There's the question right there... Is it a 'crusher' of rocks... To crush a rock you must crush it against something... Putting it between a massive force and an immovable object... The ground is not an 'immovable' force, and there is no part of the machine that acts as one... The spinning hammers pound the rocks deeper into the ground is all.
This is a rock crusher... czcams.com/video/IS7CxmhgB3g/video.html
Notice how the cam operated moving part acts on the rocks... Each crunch breaks the rock into smaller chunks and they slide further down into a narrowing opening... All the while being smashed against the back wall...
You have a pusher of rock. You'll find a layer of rock free dirt on top of a dense layer of previously exposed rock. That's not a bad thing if you don't plow deep. And if you don't mind them working back out of the ground.
Well it is a crusher since it doesn’t pound them into the ground it pounds them up onto a hard sheer plate and literally crushing it into tiny pebbles. And we can’t have the rocks in the ground because we’re planting peanuts. When we dig up the peanuts later it’ll dig up any loose rocks and then the combine ends up eating all the rocks thereby hurting our combine
@@conleybanman So there IS the immovable object... Good. Rock on. I need my peanut butter.
What part of the country is this in ?
Texas
Is a rock 'crusher'? Or a rock pummeler... Does it literally grind the rock or just beat them further down into the dirt. Run this a foot down, then when you plow a foot and a half, you drag the rock right back where you started.
But I like the 'let's see what happens' attitude... Thought I might be the only one.
Yea it crushes the rocks it wouldn’t work if it would just pushed them in the ground. It wouldn’t take long and they would come right back to the surface
seems like allot of cost and time, wonder if a potato harvester would be quicker, just haul the rock off and use it to build yer roads
Does no-til work on your farm? I’m guessing it doesn’t.
No it does we have lot of wheat that we’re going to swath and plant cotton into. All the plowed ground gets planted with peanuts
Highline Manufacturing rock picker and other youtube videos on other rock pickers
Hello friehd blessings🙏
what about a rock picker instead???
It would be faster to pick, then spread crushed rocks with a different crusher in this field. But it would also mess up soil biology layers as well, not like they care because they just plow it all anyway. Soil looks like a friggin desert; can't believe they can grow anything.
Ya, looks like that thing needs to go. Who has time for that. It would be faster to pick the rocks by hand!
So your strartin tomorrow 12 hour days and 10 bucks an hour 😂
@@conleybanman ok, you better keep it!🤣
Namaste🙏 barabar why are you using big tractor
It needs the hp
@@conleybanman how much hp want this machine
335 hp but we ended up putting our 370 hp tractor in front of it
@@conleybanman why are you using this machine
At this rate, you might have the field done in 2 years. Interesting but not practical.
Might take a while to do 1000ha!
Where in texas is ur farm
West Texas on the state line
@@conleybanman whats the biggest near city to where uou live
Lubbock
Music at the beginning is too loud.
Yup I changed it in future videos
@@conleybanman thank you
Your gonna be there for years
Only 3 lol
me and homies hate rocks
You actually think that you're going to do the whole field? Hope you don't have anything else to do for the next 6 months lol
Well it only took a month so not too bad
Wow growing in sand that sucks
It has its ups and downs
take you 17 years to do one field
Close but 18 years
@@conleybanman 🤣