Pretty neat potato digger

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:30 pm

I found this potato digger for small gardeners, and thought you all might want to have a look see.

http://www.wnep.com/wnep-col-potato-pic ... 4894.story

Post by **Brian** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:48 am

Mark,

Its a bit like the wheel, I had something like that on my BMB forty years ago and that got all the potatoes on the top. Now-a-days the problem is getting down to pick them up

My harvester at least allows you to work at waist height to fill the sacks.

jambug123 · Post by **jambug123** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:28 am

Brian,
what was your digger like on your BMB as i want to make one for mine and they dont show one in the BMB manual.

Regards
James

Post by **Brian** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:17 pm

It was like a balking plow with a flat share about 5" wide, with bars instead of mouldboards. The share pulled into the ground and the soil moved up the bars,dropping through them and leaving the potatoes on top. Worked really well. So well that I lent it to a work colleague 45 years ago and he still has not returned it.

jambug123 · Post by **jambug123** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:23 pm

Thanks Brian,
i will make one up, i have a old baulker some were so i will modify that.

Regards
James

Super Major · Post by **Super Major** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:43 pm

Hello to all, not so long ago, built farm tools, I had built one similar to that of the video as evidence, but in my land I can not use it (because it's too hard) so I continued to build as the previous ones, so here photo: