Potato Plow?

It's a double barrel middle buster is all it is. I gave $40 for it at a farm equipment auction. I think a new one is only about $175 if you get a Howse or cheap model like that.

It hills the bed but you have to hand drop the seed and kick dirt over them. It automaticly keeps your rows straight and uniform because you follow your tread tracks from the row before.

Then to harvest I use a regular middle buster.

It is for both planting and harvesting. It is a wide flatish sort of blade, set at a fairly shallow angle. In the spring, it'll make a wide farrow about 10" deep with the soil pushed up on both sides of it. I plant my potatoes on the bottom, and as the plants grow I push in a couple inches of the soil from each side, maybe 2" every two or three weeks.

In the fall, the shallow blade slides under the 'taters and lifts them gently out of the soil and sets most of them on top of the furrow. I used to harvest by hand with a fork, but what used to take me an entire weekend now takes about an hour.

Middlebuster should do about the same, although I suspect you'll lose a few taters to nicks and cuts.

I only bought the thing cuz an old retired farmer friend of mine kept bugging me to find one and use it...said once I did, I'd never go back to digging by hand and he was right.

Tom

It is for both planting and harvesting. It is a wide flatish sort of blade, set at a fairly shallow angle. In the spring, it'll make a wide farrow about 10" deep with the soil pushed up on both sides of it. I plant my potatoes on the bottom, and as the plants grow I push in a couple inches of the soil from each side, maybe 2" every two or three weeks.

In the fall, the shallow blade slides under the 'taters and lifts them gently out of the soil and sets most of them on top of the furrow. I used to harvest by hand with a fork, but what used to take me an entire weekend now takes about an hour.

Middlebuster should do about the same, although I suspect you'll lose a few taters to nicks and cuts.

I only bought the thing cuz an old retired farmer friend of mine kept bugging me to find one and use it...said once I did, I'd never go back to digging by hand and he was right.

Tom

It is for both planting and harvesting. It is a wide flatish sort of blade, set at a fairly shallow angle. In the spring, it'll make a wide farrow about 10" deep with the soil pushed up on both sides of it. I plant my potatoes on the bottom, and as the plants grow I push in a couple inches of the soil from each side, maybe 2" every two or three weeks.

In the fall, the shallow blade slides under the 'taters and lifts them gently out of the soil and sets most of them on top of the furrow. I used to harvest by hand with a fork, but what used to take me an entire weekend now takes about an hour.

Middlebuster should do about the same, although I suspect you'll lose a few taters to nicks and cuts.

I only bought the thing cuz an old retired farmer friend of mine kept bugging me to find one and use it...said once I did, I'd never go back to digging by hand and he was right.

Tom

I can't remember ever seeing one new for sale anywhere.

Tom A