hi there nice small tractor , but it likes not to start with the key .it looses to much current threw all the safety switches , if i hook 12v straight to the starter always starts right up . i also have a front mount snow blower . glad you stopped in john
Hay Mr John you and your wife sure do have a beautiful home place and this is a great video also I know those potatoes will be so good fried up with some onions now have a great rest of the day...
I got a oliver digger similar doesn't have the wheel up front its just has the draw bar attachment. But I added a pto shield, and someone removed the part to raise it so I added a ratcheting top link for now plan on putting a hydraulic one on later. Wouldnt get rid of it can't replace it. But I'm 30 so I got many years to use it.
PTO speed is "VERY" fast. :-) Might want to slow that down a bit. As you go forward you want the potatoes to end up in the same spot that they were planted in. Lag speed should match forward speed.
hi there thanks for the tip , but a bit late , i stopped farming and sold almost all of my equipment. the deer took over , 2 years ago i had planted 4 -350 foot rows of potatoes , they eat them down the ground , thanks for all john
Uncle John if ya dont have a garden next year the world could very well stop spinning lol You and your wife grew the hottest Jelapenos I have ever had ....guranteed!!
We still do our potatoes the old way: cultivate (usually twice), hill, kill (with paraquat or Rely), rotobeat, then dig. We don't have to run the separator chain so fast to get the potatoes out of the sod clumps because we don't have sod... or clumps, or even compacted ground. It seems like everything else we did "wrong" back in the day, like plowing for corn and nurse cropping alfalfa. They weren't such bad practices after all.
I agree with you on the foliage hindering grass growth. From looking at the amount of grass growth, it looks like you turned out a better yield than expected. I'm sure it would've been much more had the deer not been so gluttonous. Still, not bad considering the circumstances.
according to Bubba, potatoes are the fruit of the Earth you can BBQ em, boil em, broil em, bake em, saute em, potato ka-bobs, potato creole, gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried, pineapple potatoes, lemon potatoes, coconut potatoes, pepper potatoes, potato soup, potato stew, potato salad, potatoes and shrimp, potato bourbon, potato sandwich....
@@fricknjeep Get you some good knee pads then. Nothing worse than kneeling on a rock. What’s the business end of the digger look like? Just that belt of slates going round and round? Thought there might be something with teeth to dig in and loosen the compacted soil. How then does it manage to start a row and get under the taters?
With the current economic tenor in the country, you might think about keeping that harvester and planting for next year. It looks as if there may not be anything to buy to replace what you are growing.
@@fricknjeep I did the same for years n still do alittle.never did the farmers market but had a stand n sold from the house n I built shelves in a trailer n went to rv parks n sold fresh n canned veggies.
Things I enjoy, watching grass grow, watching paint dry, watch sawmill videos, and watch a potato digger in action, enjoy your day John
hi there sure am lucky your there . thanks john
I love my JD 1050
hi there nice small tractor , but it likes not to start with the key .it looses to much current threw all the safety switches , if i hook 12v straight to the starter always starts right up . i also have a front mount snow blower . glad you stopped in john
That Oliver digger is very cool !
Thanks for helping me with my potato questions.
hi there good to see you here john
Hay Mr John you and your wife sure do have a beautiful home place and this is a great video also I know those potatoes will be so good fried up with some onions now have a great rest of the day...
hi there we eat to many of them but they are good . thanks john
Thanks John You got you afew potatoes 🥔
hi yes thanks john
I got a oliver digger similar doesn't have the wheel up front its just has the draw bar attachment. But I added a pto shield, and someone removed the part to raise it so I added a ratcheting top link for now plan on putting a hydraulic one on later. Wouldnt get rid of it can't replace it. But I'm 30 so I got many years to use it.
PTO speed is "VERY" fast. :-) Might want to slow that down a bit. As you go forward you want the potatoes to end up in the same spot that they were planted in. Lag speed should match forward speed.
hi there thanks for the tip , but a bit late , i stopped farming and sold almost all of my equipment. the deer took over , 2 years ago i had planted 4 -350 foot rows of potatoes , they eat them down the ground , thanks for all john
this was after the deer eat everything, go fricknjeep big potato crop . this is more normal . john
Uncle John if ya dont have a garden next year the world could very well stop spinning lol
You and your wife grew the hottest Jelapenos I have ever had ....guranteed!!
hi there its time john
We still do our potatoes the old way: cultivate (usually twice), hill, kill (with paraquat or Rely), rotobeat, then dig. We don't have to run the separator chain so fast to get the potatoes out of the sod clumps because we don't have sod... or clumps, or even compacted ground. It seems like everything else we did "wrong" back in the day, like plowing for corn and nurse cropping alfalfa. They weren't such bad practices after all.
Sure beats a pitch fork.
Larry in El Paso, TX
hi there very right ,thanks john
I'd sure like to find one like that to hook on the back of my Oliver Hart-Parr.
yep that was a oliver . john thanks for dropping in john
I agree with you on the foliage hindering grass growth. From looking at the amount of grass growth, it looks like you turned out a better yield than expected. I'm sure it would've been much more had the deer not been so gluttonous. Still, not bad considering the circumstances.
hi there there were more than i thought there would be john
Grew up in Idaho - plenty of potatoes watered and lots of worn out digger links. Good hills make the digging easier.
hi there ye your right thanks john
Sod-busting aside, that looked like a decent enough haul. And yeah, I'd be curious to see how that final row turns out. 👍
hi there it was the first row planted about 2 weeks earlier but the first row eaten , that 350 foot row didn't get bushel , thanks john
Clethodim herbicide will kill the grass and not hurt the potatoes. Don't know what to use for broadleaf weeds yet.
hi there thanks for the tip but i stopped doing a large garden . to many deer . they are eating everything , thanks for stopping by john
If it weren’t for the grass growing into sod clumps I believe you could almost put a bucket behind that unit to catch the tators.
hi there i think you could thanks john
brilliant john. do you have any videos of you planting potatoes? that would be fantastic to see, thanks - marc
hi there no never did a video of that . i sold my potato planter a few years back . these 3 rows were planted by hand . thanks john
@@fricknjeep ah such a shame lol well at least we got to see these couple of great videos, thank you, marc
according to Bubba, potatoes are the fruit of the Earth
you can BBQ em, boil em, broil em, bake em, saute em, potato ka-bobs, potato creole, gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried, pineapple potatoes, lemon potatoes, coconut potatoes, pepper potatoes,
potato soup, potato stew, potato salad, potatoes and shrimp, potato bourbon, potato sandwich....
hi there now i have to go fix some . thanks john
Is that the same digger we saw last time (the one you sold). It's still interesting.
Bill
hi there yes went to its new home a few days ago . thanks john
not too bad . what you got wernt huge but far from tiny!
thanks john
How long are your rows? Don’t believe my back could stand picking and sacking a row of your spuds. Aches just thinking about it.
hi there 350 feet , i do most on my knees john
@@fricknjeep Get you some good knee pads then. Nothing worse than kneeling on a rock. What’s the business end of the digger look like? Just that belt of slates going round and round? Thought there might be something with teeth to dig in and loosen the compacted soil. How then does it manage to start a row and get under the taters?
With the current economic tenor in the country, you might think about keeping that harvester and planting for next year. It looks as if there may not be anything to buy to replace what you are growing.
hi there at 70 and the deer so out of control no more potatoes . sold the digger last week and the planter a while back . thanks john
You guys must eat alot of taters john.
i use to sell to farmers markets and had a small stand out front . john
@@fricknjeep I did the same for years n still do alittle.never did the farmers market but had a stand n sold from the house n I built shelves in a trailer n went to rv parks n sold fresh n canned veggies.
make me some French fries🍟🍟🍟🍟🍟
hi there been doing that and morning hash browns with my bacon and eggs , thanks john