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Assessing the Work Area and Raking Strategy

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She's Tired of picking up rocks! So we put this little tractor to work!

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What happens here

The farmer drives the Ventrac to the designated work area, a section of elevated land he calls the 'rock ridge.' He explains that this area was previously a dense hedgerow, which was cleared last fall using an excavator and a loader crew. This clearing exposed a massive amount of rocks that had accumulated over centuries. The strategy is to use the rear landscape rake to loosen the terrain and pull the rocks into long rows, called 'windrows.' The front landscape rake will then be used as a 'mini bulldozer' to push these windrows into larger, consolidated piles. Finally, a skid loader will scoop up these piles and deposit them in a wooded area not used for pasture.

Goal: Develop a strategy for efficiently clearing rocks and debris.

Tools and materials

  • Excavator — Initial land clearing (mentioned as prior work)
  • Skid Loader — Final rock removal (mentioned as future work)
  • Ventrac Tractor Ventrac — Transport to the work area and operating attachments

What they say

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[Music] here we are on the rock ridge so I'll post a link at the end of this video to when I clean this off with the excavator and then we had my loader crew come in behind us and you can see where the grass is brown versus where its light brown or green this is the area with all the dirt and rocks and debris got pushed all the way down into the woods over here so down off over the hill what my goal is is to get all these rocks up so here's an example all throughout here this land is covered with rocks we can pick them up by hand but man what a chore so the goal with the ventrac is to pull the rocks into a windrow so I'm trying to pull the rocks all the way up into a win we're right here with a window right here kind of hard to say so the landscape break on the back is angled this one will also be angled and when we get done we'll take the rock piles and push them up with this thing it's like a mini bulldozer basically as we start working all these rocks up you can see lots of rocks lots of stuff to clean up we're gonna toss the drone up in the air you'll get an interesting aerial perspective and you'll really be able to see where we pushed off over down the hill I'm gonna program the drone to kind of follow me as I go hopefully fingers crossed we don't get into some trees [Music]

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