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Pretty neat potato digger
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:30 pm
by Mark
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
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:48 am
by Brian
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:28 am
by jambug123
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
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:17 pm
by Brian
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:23 pm
by jambug123
Thanks Brian,
i will make one up, i have a old baulker some were so i will modify that.
Regards
James
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:43 pm
by Super Major
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:
