Potato Digging

rusty6 · Oct 5, 2017

Harvesting potatoes at my brother's place on the weekend. Nice weather, dry soil and decent crop of potatoes. Little Kubota pulls a digger on the 3 point hitch. Sure beats a fork or hoe to dig them out.
Potato Harvest

casecollectorsc · Oct 5, 2017

Looks like the soil was very dry and mellow.

2underage · Oct 5, 2017

I looked to see a digger but you were just using a plow to unearth the potatoes. It looks like it works OK.

We did not plant any potatoes this year because of all the rain that never seemed to stop. We plan on trying next spring if the weather permits. Our digger is one that digs them and runs them over a shaker chain.....good clean potatoes but we still have to bend over and pick them off the ground.

rusty6 · Oct 5, 2017

(quoted from post at 06:24:25 10/05/17) I looked to see a digger but you were just using a plow to unearth the potatoes. It looks like it works OK.
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That was not a plow but an actual digger. Not the elaborate expensive model that you refer to that has a chain to shake the dirt off. I forget the brand name but it is a sort of "v plow " style that I think they also use for planting. Just use it to dig out a furrow in spring and drop in the potatoes. Works well for them but I still use the old shovel method for mine.
And yes, that soil is as dry as I have ever seen it in years. Makes for good conditions to dig them. Most years they come out of the ground muddy.

Leroy · Oct 5, 2017

Looks like a middle buster but the early potato diggeres were very simular but pulled by horses. But one big difference, they had a bunch of rods fastened to the share of the digger that lifted the potato out of the ground and left the dirt fall thru so they were laying on top of the ground. Years ago raised a lot of potatoes and Dad had a homemade unit on the 3 pt of the 44 2N Ford to dig them. We hand picked all thet we could see on top then hooked to the spring tooth harrow and went over the ground once then we would find as many as first time picking up and keep repeting till found no more potatos, Was usually if I remember corectly about half a dozen times over with that spring tooth but that was back in the 50's.

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