Do rocks really increase our maintenance costs in Farming Simulator 22

In this video we put rocky soil to the test by planting corn in a field that has not had its rocks removed and then repeat the process with no rocks just to see the difference. While its just a single field and a fairly small field at that we will hopefully see a difference. How much of an impact will it make?

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#FarmingSimulator22 #FS22

[betagorilla]

Tractor took no paint damage from the stoneless field and $1, 961 in damage with the stony field. meanwhile the seeder took an additional $443 from the stones.

[jonatanschwindt]

i really dont care if they do or dont... i look at the field and just cant stand seeing them... giants really knows how to tap into mt ocd lmao

[FarmSimGame]

I think it was miscommunicated by Giants. The bulk of the damage is to your paint job, not maintenance.

Using your seeder as the experiment:
Control: $0 repaint cost
After rocks: -$3, 508 to repaint
After no rocks: -$3, 540 to repaint

This tells us the damage to your paint job is 10x more on your equipment when running on rocks than without.

[betagorilla]

paint damage. the cost difference is $2, 408 more damage done if you don't pick the rocks.
edit: redid the math to be exact. People seem to miss the baseline numbers change for the stone-less run. would like to see the cost of stone picker and damage to tractor and picker to see if you make enough selling the stones to warrant paying for the picker and maintenance to run it.

[blairbear]

I did a similiar test.. The sme field that had a much higher density of stones/rocks that would not roll under my equipmemt suffered a 50% higher level of damage than after the stones were removed.

[Feldynn]

Interesting results there, but sadly not surprising to me. I had hoped that trying to seed over an especially rock-riddled field would have incurred a significantly higher repair cost than that, specifically by way of damage to the seeder itself as it would have more delicate parts that could be damaged by stones, more so than the tractor.

I do appreciate you taking the time to test this, thankyou!

[T_Primal_Wolf]

you can use the rock/stone picker to pick up rocks/stones and then use the roller to get the seedbed status, you don't need to have rocks/stones in the Field to use a "rock/stone" Roller, I tested that after you Last Video, lol, P.S. I play FS22 on the Basic PS4.

With that knowledge for consoles I'd like to see a self-propelled Rock/stone picker with a rock/stone roller on the back, 10, 000L for storage, lol

I can see it in my head a lorry or semi tractor front, forage Harvester for the rest of the body and a three point hitch for the roller on the back, make it look like it's hobbled together but built right, doesn't have to be/look fancy just get the job done, lol

[benmiller]

I think an option to pick up the rocks by hand would be cool, especially when first starting off. But this video made me wonder, does the equipment take damage if you hit something? Or say you run through a part that isn't a field, like overhang in the grass or lowering it on the road, just because

[cf]

I wonder if the greatest damage would be to the combine or the combine header, rather than the planter.

[kurtisf]

I’ve seen a few of these tests and I think what is missing from analysis is cumulative effects. Don’t pick or roll any rocks for a few years and see what it’s like. On my current play through I took a seeding contract on an NPC field in year 4 and I almost got motion sickness from the camera jerking around as the tractor bumped over the rocks. There were so many rocks in that field that it looked more like a gravel pit than a field. I’ve been keeping an eye on it and the rocks get worse and worse every year.

[samelbamel]

I think the costs add up when you've had to seed multiple fields then fertilized / weed and finally harvest / bale them. If youve done 4 or 5 runs over a field with implements and its full of stones since the beginning it's surely gonna add up. The stone collector pays itself off in the long run.

Also worth a mention. Maintenance costs are huge on older/used vehicles and more expensive vehicles. Perhaps it's fine to leave stones in the beginning but when you eventually run your 500, 000$ Harvester over them you're gonna want to de-stone it first.

[Kurruk]

What I'm wondering is what was the additional cost of the tractor and the stone picker maintenance. Just to see if you run without stone picking and then pick the stones and combine the two costs (and sale) together what would be the actual difference. For some people it might be more ocd, for others it's the extra time they would have to invest, not to mention that the stone picker isn't cheap and would have to pay for itself eventually ... hopefully.

[PavementPilot]

I wonder if the harvester will take rock damage as well. I do not think anyone has tested that. If the rocks are large or numerous enough, then the header will take damage, IRL. I wonder if that is translated into FS22?

[xxbambamxx]

You need to test it with the bug stones👌

[banditbeggers]

You will also have more where on the tractor as you are doing more work with it

[marlboroman]

I saw Klutch do a short saying maintenance really had no impact on vehicles. A vehicle that needed full maintenance performed just as good as a new one

[hal]

I think the tractor wear is related to the operating hours; not the field condition.

[DonGorgen]

For this field it would actually be cheaper to not remove stones.
It'll cost you more than $4 in maintenance on the stone picker to remove the stones lol.

[danielwas]

That was interesting. I was expecting about 10 times more maintanance cost for seeder with rocks than without.

[fsplayedbyjulian]

Disc Harrow no stones, cultivator stones but no weeds, game is awesome