I found this on an auction in Pennsylvania. You see them occasionally if you are looking. We are going to try using it to dig garlic. It’s somewhat apparent that the pig weeds are an issue by the end of July that this harvester has a problem with their big root systems. The farmer that had it used it for many years for potato’s and worked well for them.
Any video of it digging garlic? I have the same digger but with an optional elevator, which we don't use because one of the cast tabs of the gear that runs the elevator is broken so the drive chain pops off, but if that tab weren't broken the elevator does work great. I've left the elevator on it for a few years but I'm taking it off in the coming weeks when I give the digger a fresh coat of paint and some new bearings. We mostly do potatoes through it but it works great with beets after you defoliate, I just use a brush hog. Going to try it on onions this season with the same defoliating strategy. Do you defoliate the garlic before you dig? We clip the tops in the field before curing but I'm thinking of giving the brush hogging a shot on garlic too. Can't see why it would be different than cutting with snips. Thanks for the share and for reading this lengthy comment lol
We have been digging by hand and snipping at that point. We were at another location last year and the soil had so much clay in it that the digger wouldn’t even begin to dig. Hard as a rock! We were considering mowing the tops and trying it at our new farm here. The soil it much better here and it should work fine. Cross our fingers!
@@tommarple1449 We'll reconnect when that time of year comes. I'm in central VT so we should both be picking in July at some point if you're in Maine you said? I think we did about 75lbs of cloves, it's not a huge crop for us but it helps round out the offerings for farmers market and CSA. We've got river bottom soil so it's pretty ideal for roots and root harvesting equipment. Good luck at your new farm!
Thinking that might be a good idea. We lost our crop this year due to the horrible rains in July. Rotted the tops right off. We just plowed it all right back in. What that ended up doing though was replanting over a half a million cloves that came up everywhere! We tried planted barley over it to try to keep the weeds down in the spring. Wish us luck! Probably the brush hog would help big time. The pig weeds grow so well, it binds up the conveyor. I will try to get a video if the plan works. Wish us luck! 🍀
@Tom Marple yep, when you said it was 4th of July.. I thought you might be in trouble on your harvesting.. As We have learned to begin harvesting in the last week of June and have all if Our Garlic out of the ground by July 4th is a Must here in Central Indiana
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Nice video. Thank you! Are there many of these potato diggers around anymore? We got a big garden and grow a lot of potatoes.
I found this on an auction in Pennsylvania. You see them occasionally if you are looking. We are going to try using it to dig garlic. It’s somewhat apparent that the pig weeds are an issue by the end of July that this harvester has a problem with their big root systems. The farmer that had it used it for many years for potato’s and worked well for them.
@@tommarple1449 you did a nice job on restoring that digger!
@@scottrayhons2537 Thanks!
Any video of it digging garlic? I have the same digger but with an optional elevator, which we don't use because one of the cast tabs of the gear that runs the elevator is broken so the drive chain pops off, but if that tab weren't broken the elevator does work great. I've left the elevator on it for a few years but I'm taking it off in the coming weeks when I give the digger a fresh coat of paint and some new bearings. We mostly do potatoes through it but it works great with beets after you defoliate, I just use a brush hog. Going to try it on onions this season with the same defoliating strategy. Do you defoliate the garlic before you dig? We clip the tops in the field before curing but I'm thinking of giving the brush hogging a shot on garlic too. Can't see why it would be different than cutting with snips. Thanks for the share and for reading this lengthy comment lol
We have been digging by hand and snipping at that point. We were at another location last year and the soil had so much clay in it that the digger wouldn’t even begin to dig. Hard as a rock!
We were considering mowing the tops and trying it at our new farm here. The soil it much better here and it should work fine. Cross our fingers!
@@tommarple1449 We'll reconnect when that time of year comes. I'm in central VT so we should both be picking in July at some point if you're in Maine you said? I think we did about 75lbs of cloves, it's not a huge crop for us but it helps round out the offerings for farmers market and CSA. We've got river bottom soil so it's pretty ideal for roots and root harvesting equipment. Good luck at your new farm!
Thinking that might be a good idea. We lost our crop this year due to the horrible rains in July. Rotted the tops right off. We just plowed it all right back in. What that ended up doing though was replanting over a half a million cloves that came up everywhere! We tried planted barley over it to try to keep the weeds down in the spring. Wish us luck! Probably the brush hog would help big time. The pig weeds grow so well, it binds up the conveyor. I will try to get a video if the plan works. Wish us luck! 🍀
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Wade here.. Please contact me about your elevator..
@Tom Marple yep, when you said it was 4th of July.. I thought you might be in trouble on your harvesting..
As We have learned to begin harvesting in the last week of June and have all if Our Garlic out of the ground by July 4th is a Must here in Central Indiana
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