Explain how this works?

Anybody ever seen this?
check it out please,,its o/t

At first it looked very interesting, but at 2:55 you can see the end of the tilled row, it looks like it is just reburying the rocks and smoothing the dirt on top of them.

Gotta agree but it does make that possibly productive soil for a year or 2 making that country more self sufficient.

Question of it is will it have a negative environmental impact? Like all that dirt washing away in the first heavy rain.

Rick

OH and Larry, how it works? Turn on the PTO and drive forward slowly....... :lol: :lol:

Rick

Per their web site (that is in French) it is just a size sorter.
The rocks are still there they are just on the bottom.

I can't believe it would crush our field stones if it could that should make some good soil to plant in. Randy

The machine is basically burying the rocks. You would have dirt back on top for a few years and then your back to rocks again. It is not breaking them or anything like that. It stirs the rocks and soil then some how is ending up with the dirt on top and the rocks buried.

I would hate to pick rocks in that field! Ron MN

Ive seen the video before. Interesting. When we harrow our garden it looks like no stones. Get a good rain and they are back. I?m a little disappointed that no one has invented a laser tiller powerful enough to pulverize rocks. Sure would change farming in New England.

wonder how long that machine will last? and does it have warranty. could not even see the pto turning.

Just a rock burier but looks like it would be kinda handy to burry a few rocks

If I go to the expense of sifting dirt for rocks, I want the dang rocks gathered and piled and out of my field, not left to resurface in a few years!

Yikes.

Paul

You'd have to do something with them. If you picked the field there would not be any dirt left to plant in.

It look to me like the rocks were dumped and spread on the surface for the demo. What do they do to fill the furrows?

I agree with Paul; if that were My field, I'd want a Rock Rake & Screen Bucket to remove the rock from the field. All that rock and some Cement could make some nice rock walls somewhere.

Doc

Nice sandy field, the sand is rather coarse, however.

If you took all the rocks out of that field and made it nothing but dirt for say the top 2 feet your field would be a pond.

Seems like it would work OK if the frost depth is shallow. Those rocks wouldn't stay buried for long in northern climates.

I have been involved with a company that makes a similar machine, the rocks are buried and the bed is used to grow salad crops like lettuce, carrots and rocket. Stones aid the drainage and soon reappear when the beds are finished with. Another method was to move the stones into the tractor wheelings and run on them with all the follow up operations.

You are wrong about that Jd, it is breaking the rocks. The brother of a friend of mine has one of those machines. He grows cash crop, and hires himself out to clean fence bottoms during slow times of the season. It will destroy stumps as well as rock the size of your head . This fella will buy stoney farms really cheap, and start in crushing the rocks. The farm is then put into no till, corn , wheat, and soy rotation. There is also a quiet a bit of mineral release from the crushed stones.

Two more ideas for that field 1)start a gravel quarry 2)Build rock walls.

This one looks like a actual crusher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKQ15jUmN_A

Paul
Rock Crusher

I think a cheap rusty stone picker could probably pick up 80% of them stones/rocks, beins there so concentrated and untop of the surface. John

When I grew up planting was not the issue. Picking rocks was. We had knolls where you could park the hay rack and fill it a foot deep. No exaggeration. I always dreamed of some form of rock crusher.

Paul

Bruce while your friend may have a rock crusher this one is not.
This is from their web site.
Since you are from Canada we will assume you can read the description in French.








For us dumb Americans that need to learn Spanish and not French here it is in English.


Principle of operation of the MASSANO landfill.

(A) This machine, connected to a tractor of adequate power, is designed to eliminate stones, clumps and crop waste from the surface in a single pass.
Its main element consists of a rotor (B) rotating in the opposite direction of the advance, equipped with specific blades projecting the coarse elements against the selection grid (C), which ensures a granulometric sorting over the entire depth worked.
The coarse material falls into the groove created by the rotor and is covered by the fine soil (D) channeled by the buttress box (butcher version) or the rear doors (flat working version), thus forming a perfect seedbed of which the settlement is adjustable by pressure cranks (E).

The selection grid (C) has a sieve function, but also allows the operator to work in difficult or particular conditions, the vibration system ensuring a constant cleaning between independent springs, even in wet soil conditions, ensuring a continuous and fluid passage of the earth.

In addition, the ability to vary the angle of the selection grid allows the user to work more deeply with less power.

This working depth is adjustable from 10 to 30 cm, depending on the machine model, by adjusting the roller height (F, G) and the third point of the tractor.

The side discs (H) allow the penetration of the machine by opening a groove facilitating the passage of the housings.

A wide range of options and accessories is available to best equip the machine according to the areas of use, whether in market gardening, gardens green spaces, large-scale farming, arboriculture ...

To allow the burner to operate in different terrains, have been studied and realized two types of rotors for the same machine, these rotors being interchangeable:

Yep , that is definitely different what I have seen. Guy I know runs a tractor near 300 hp and goes very slow.