Delgriffith
New User
I bought an old ground driven potato digger to try to use for potato harvesting and I am wondering about setting it up. It was designed to be pulled by horses but I don't have any of those so the Ford 860 was my plan. I have a drawbar with holes across the bar that would allow me to position the digger blade in the center of my rows and have the tires fall between rows but when I did a test run with that set up the digger was very hard to control for depth. It was either skimming the top or digging in until the tractor tires started spinning. It seems to me that the drawbar does not allow for using draft control since the top link isn't getting load feedback with that kind of set up. Is this correct?
I was looking into putting a proper three point hitch onto the digger to use draft control. My brush hog has a three point attachment I can just unbolt and it sits over the digger just about right but that standard set up has the digger centered between the tires and puts me 10 inches off of where I need to be to run down the rows. I'm thinking I might be able to modify it to off set it by welding another set of pins over to one side, but this is starting to get hairy and I'm not sure if I might be wasting my time and buggering up my brush hog three point. Maybe I just need more practice controlling depth with the drawbar? Just looking for some advice if anyone else has had a similar issue.
I was looking into putting a proper three point hitch onto the digger to use draft control. My brush hog has a three point attachment I can just unbolt and it sits over the digger just about right but that standard set up has the digger centered between the tires and puts me 10 inches off of where I need to be to run down the rows. I'm thinking I might be able to modify it to off set it by welding another set of pins over to one side, but this is starting to get hairy and I'm not sure if I might be wasting my time and buggering up my brush hog three point. Maybe I just need more practice controlling depth with the drawbar? Just looking for some advice if anyone else has had a similar issue.