Do you have wheel weights for your BCS? It helps a lot with traction. We used an old set of barbell weights on our two wheel tractor.(A Grillo G110) This was a tateriffic video👍
Yea, the potato probably will not get you fat. There is only so much potato you can eat. The problem starts when you add the bacon, butter, creams, etc.
Coming from an original equipment manufacturer i can tell you that Spedo is trying to save money by giving their equipment a final paint after it is assembled.
If you had a compact tractor like a Kubota L2501 and a 3 Point Hitch Garden Bedder to keep your rows mounded up, and a 3 point hitch mower to mow away the trash before harvesting, that Spedo potato digger would work great.
Its been a while since we had a video about the veggies!!!. Cant lie that looks like one fun piece of equipment!!! Mike you are too funny... 💪 Video Brother
Mike may I recomend something for next year when you do plant taters. Yes I am from the south we call them taters. I see you got a side by side get a plow that is. Pulled by a horse or a mule hook it to your side by side. To dig the taters. Or if you have a small tractor hook a plow to it to dig the taters. Both methods will work and its easier there is no shaking. Like the one in this video.
The Spedo works great for me behind my old Farmall. But you need to plant in mounds. It literally kicks the spuds out the back of the tractor leaving them on top of the bed. Come spring I just clean up the mounds and replant. I don't have to fuss with the beds but every other year now.
Thanks for the video. You did a great job showing how it worked out for you. You definitely need to hill. It says it right in the sales info. I hill and use the Aldo Biagioli root digger on a BCS 850 diesel. I've used it on a 730 8hp and have a video up on here. Horsepower isn't the issue, traction is. You need a lot more weight. I think you should also have been running just above an idle to keep the vibration lower. But it is an expensive attachment. Pry takes a half acre or better to justify it. I have considered getting one, but I only grow about 200 feet of taters. The Biagioli does just fine, and it digs deeper. It is still a workout, it still requires a lot of weight and traction, but it beats a fork. You need to pull the biomass off the hill to keep it from plugging.
I have had great results planting in hay or straw. The root reach the soil under the bed of straw and the spuds populate in the straw. Very easy to harvest. You need a potatoe fork, pay the money for quality, there will be less damage harvesting. Keep you attention on garage sales, like established folks selling. Old is good.
John Doe I prefer straw for fewer weeds. I run furrows with the furrowing attachment on my Troy-bilt tiller, run a drip line down the furrow, drop the seed potatoes in and then cover with straw. I add more straw as the leaves poke through. Harvesting involves rolling the straw aside and picking potatoes. I till the straw in after harvest to add organic material to the soil.
Hi Mike and Erin, I was interested to see if the implement would work or make things more difficult. Just watching Mike try to wrangle that beast was enough to say no thanks. Now, on a possibly brighter note. I've been doing taters for a few years now and used to dig by hand, like you all. A friend of mine who farms educated me in planting the seed potatoes in straw rather than soil. I'm going like, "oh sure this will work, not" but I was found to be wrong. (My wife loves hearing that) I prepare the soil just as I would if planting but instead of burying seed, I just spread them on top and then cover the whole lot with straw. I lay a few pieces of old lumber across the lane to keep the straw from blowing away, a concern of yours I am sure. Soon enough you'll see the shoots coming up and the potatoes look beautiful in the end. Harvest is simply a matter of raking the straw off the top and picking up the potatoes. Occasionally I have some runners that went deep and I dig, but most of the harvest is right on top. Afterwards, I till the straw back in and leave it for winter. This lightens the soil and composts a bit as well. I was cautioned, do NOT use hay as there will be far too many weed seeds and the like in it. Straw is the way to go and I'll be doing that from now on. If you get the chance to give this a try I wish you all the best. Farming/Ranching is hard enough without adding to the cause. I forgot to say, make the straw about four inches deep.
I wonder if the paint on the digging blade was creating too much resistance and that was why you had to raise the depth? Was there any improvement on the second pass? Can potatoes be grown in the high tunnels? I've noticed the soil seems to be softer in there.
Well it works great you clearly don’t know how to plant and harvest potatoes YOU MUST BUILD A BED TO PLANT IN AND IT HARVESTS BERY WELL I PLANT OVER 200 Acees every year and I have a four row harvester I built out of four of them and hire imergants to pick them up in baskets and haul to shed and produce over 180 bags per acre and a bag is 50 lbs by the way so their just saying learn and produce better results you must little Padawan
I run the Spedo behind my farmall and its amazing with raised beds. But I had similar issues without mounds but it still was better than my spud plow. I'll never go back to digging by hand again. But I couldn't imagine running one behind a BCS lol. My butt gets numb just running it behind my tractor. All in all after a few seasons it's paid for itself by increased yields and I plant less now because it harvests more for me.
Just a tip, it's what professional farmers will often do: mulch the growth before you dig them up. Makes the potatoes more firm and prevents clogging up the digging unit with dry leaves and stuff
Love your channel!!! I see a previous comment mentioned barbell wheel weights. BCS has some great wheel weights available. I purchased my BCS 749 with the filled tires on a recommendation from Joel at Earthtools. Wow! It made a huge difference in traction. Keep the great content coming.
That is a lot of fancy (non working) moving mechanics for a rather easy job. RUclips wont let me put in hyperlinks anymore... Search pictures in your browser for "potato plow". You´ll find those made for harvesting. Looks like either a pointy triangular or a shovel blade, with metal combs on the end. Buy or weld one suiting your machine. Small is better for a 2 wheel tractor. Make good ridges in your potato field when plowing for planting, it will make harvesting much easier.
I know this is two years old but I wanted to add to this video to help others that are thinking of buying a BCS. Just dont.. I bought one years ago to till my garden and bought a mower deck to mow weeds on my 1.5 acre lot. It was not at all worth the money and wore out fast and the lawnmower dealer I bought it from was always reluctant to work on it. On top of that experience I went to pick up my BCS from the shop I bought it from and they informed me that the scrap guy had taken it prematurely without first referencing the repair order to see it was not for scrapping. Personally I think it got stolen they just did not want to admit it.... Anyway the shop owner and I agreed on a new "Troy built" tiller to compensate me since I had upgraded to a better mower anyway and no longer needed the BCS for mowing. The mower deck and setup was always a huge disappointment just like this guys potato picker/shaker it was the slowest and most cumbersome piece of junk I ever owned for use on my homestead.
I am a Farm/Country boy Born & Raised in rural ky at the bottom of the Appalachia mountains & We Was Raised on Soup Beans & Fried Potatoes n cornbread & Would have died many times over if not for them i remember eating potatoes 6-7 nights a week and that's to bs i am grown now n my very late 30's ish and i still eat them 5-6 times a week some wayor other mainly fried ,mashed or boiled & i still love them and if i ever dont eat them then im probably dead or about to be..lol. o and i use ketchup on fried an some times a little mustard some times with garlic cooked with them an others with a big onion cooked n them an mmm mmm Good
The Prussian king introduced the potato first in Europe. The potato is very nutritious and long-lasting, ideal for his army. In the beginning, the farmers had regarded the plant as a fruit and not the potato in the soil. What do the little track gates/Traktor cost to mow the grass? On these small track gates you could attach the potato plowman. Then you could sit comfortable and the potato tool can deeper into the earth, work more effectively. Here in Germany, the cities have small racial mowers where the workers sit on top of them. They mow the grass like a go kart. Even private person have such a Driver-Traktor for cutting the grass at home. I don't know how much they cost . They have more PS ( Horse Power) and can easy handle the potato-Tool ( Potato Digger )
That is an interesting attempt at a down sized potato digger Erin! I wonder why Deere or Case havent figured out something down scaled for the smaller tractor family? But I do have a suggestion Erin. Maybe Mike could duct tape his mike along side of a garden hoe and hill away his peel off the internet jokes next season? But seriously, even if the rows are well hilled, would the rows be narrow enough for the wheel spread of your BCS? -Bob...
Really unfortunate for that product when you don't know what your doing. Potato bed wasn't even prepared properly. Its like watching someone hammer nails with with a wrench. Hope BCS never sends you another product.....just terrible.
An e in Italian is pronounced the same as an e in Spanish - it's said like an A, or "ayh" - which means the machine is named "Spade-O" - funny that it's such an English digging tool name, just spelled in Italian.
Hmmmm I don’t know italian or too sure about the “ayh” sound....in Spanish and E makes a “EH” sound...like “El ranchero”...no A sound, so it would read “Spehdo”
@@Maneras03 The E in el is an anomaly for Spanish pronunciations. One of the reason it is an easy language to read aloud and spell phonetically is because of the lack of variance in vowel sounds. An E at the beginning of a word is slightly softer in most cases, but all vowels in the middle of words are pronounced as they are written.
Or set a strong mesh liner on each row below the potato plant with grab handles. When ready to harvest two people one on each side pulls up on the mesh ungrounding the potatoes. I'm sure you can figure out what I mean. Even with cans it can be done. Dump them over. Well those are my 2 cents for today. 👍🙏🇺🇸T20
Every vid I see they have removed the plant material above ground and have made wheel width adjustments plus lock in the drive wheels.Your fighting the plant material. Turn handle to the side for better footing.
If I ever get my own thing going this is about the scale I'd want to be on, two wheeler < 1000ft² of both potatoes and grain that you can't buy in the store. Maybe a half dozen ducks a dozen chickens all on about an acre.
Mike? What if you plant the potatoes above ground on box planters with access for harvesting from beneath instead of above. With latched openings underneath the box planters.
I tried to use one of these for the potato research plots at my job and it doesn't work for potatoes that are hilled in soft sand. We treat the plots like commercial fields and as a consequence the BCS rides on the hill and has too much soil to dig up so it slips and inevitably falls off the hill. I Spent 4 hours in 90 degree heat trying every which way to get this thing to work. The BCS needs more power, more weight and a wider stance to run this thing. It needs an actual tractor.
About 10yrs ago, I took the tines off an old cultivator frame, bolted on some angle iron and two pieces 5/16 sheet steel into the shape of a pie wedge with a front opening of 4ft and a rear opening of 15in. The soil has to be fairly dry and tilled almost to a powder, but it pulled up the prettiest hills I ever could've hoped for. It even left a semi deep enough furough to plant taters in. Gonna build a planting and digging attachment to mount to it for next year.
How about trying to build a potato digger for the little international tractor. A bracket for the 3pt, a spade to dig, sifting bars, and a vibration motor, little bit of welding and presto a digger
Humm....that's quite a contraption! I can see where it might work and be a labor saving device if you had hilled the rows, as you suggested. I would hate to have it damage my potato harvest like that one did. Good demonstration! I could see a wide belt attached to the handlebars and worn around Mike's waist to act as one of those weight loss belt machines! Lol! Just kidding but the image kept coming to mind! Just a suggestion for Erin, instead of using a shovel to dig the potatoes, we use a Spading Fork to get down through hard ground and under the tubers. It works pretty good and you don't damage as many as you would with a shovel. Anyway, thanks for sharing your review!
Why not to use straw to build up rows over your potatoes. The plant grows up as you keep adding to the pile, and all the potatoes end up above ground and easy to harvest.
It really works well in hill/mounds. With how they planted there's no other way besides digging by hand. I got mine used at auction and wont part with the thing.
Is there an implement for a small garden tractor that does something similar? Granted, if you didn't have a garden tractor already, not economical. But it would alleviate the massive vibration.
In Scotland we call a potato a tattie and the stem the tattie shaw. Our main crop of tattie we grow is sharp, red duke and rooster the red duke and rooster is a mealy tattle and the sharp is best eaten at the seed tattie size with a slab of butter. Great vid again.
You guys mite look in KSL.com in the classifieds sometimes they have old potato diggers on there that you mite be able to pull with your little international tractor i think that is what it is any. I hope you guys have had a least a better summer then last. I haven’t got to watch in while so I’m behind
We have a decent sized garden plot -- 48'x60'. It's a hobby. I'd considered getting a BCS for years but just recently purchased a John Deere 3038E instead. Your video confirms my decision. I'm nearly 52 and the thought of bouncing around behind a BCS is not appetizing at all. While our new JD is likely more tractor than I need for our current garden, my old legs won't complain about it too much at all. Thanks again for all you do. God Bless.
Potato diggers are tricky. A few years back I acquired a vintage ground driven potato digger from a neighbor, and it took some time to get it set up correctly. Originally we used it on a 4020 JD, and it worked well but it was way to large of a tractor, and you would have to drive on top of adjacent rows when digging. We have since switched over to a newer JD 1025r sub compact tractor and it works very well. I imagine if you had a small tractor with ~25-40 hp and a three-point you would have similar success. I didn’t get to film it in action this year, but next time we dig I’ll share a video.
Hi, Erin & Mike, I'm going to weld-up a potato digging bucket for my small backhoe on my tractor. I have an old 16" bucket that I'm going to revamp. Anything beats digging 🥔's by hand, LOL❗
A single bottom plow (see 'middle buster') works great for digging potatoes. Pull it behind your utility or garden tractor. You don't end up with hardly any cut potatoes with that. Check out other YT videos of them in action. And WAAAAAAAY cheaper than this attachment too.
Cool. I was hoping for better results
But your jokes, well they were appealing
You say potato, I say potato. It doesn’t work as well written down.😂
Hahaha. That’s funny-Mike
Mike Wilder it’s easy pōtātō vs pōtãtō they seem to have left the symbol for short vowels out
Do you have wheel weights for your BCS? It helps a lot with traction. We used an old set of barbell weights on our two wheel tractor.(A Grillo G110)
This was a tateriffic video👍
Go on! SHAKE YOUR TATER MAKER! .... ok. I'm done.
LOL Thats a good one! Thanks. -Mike
I love potatoes, unfortunately I am living on Kidney Dialysis and eating a them is a big no no.
Sorry to hear about the Dialysis James Ballance. -Mike
Yea, the potato probably will not get you fat. There is only so much potato you can eat. The problem starts when you add the bacon, butter, creams, etc.
All the good stuff! Thanks - Mike
Wait... that's a problem?
Looks to be more trouble than it's worth.🙋
Don't let there lack of common sense and knowledge discourage you. RUclips is full of bad examples and advice.
Welcome to farming lol
That thing looks like it will give you a workout.
Looks were not deceiving. Thanks for watching. -Mike
Coming from an original equipment manufacturer i can tell you that Spedo is trying to save money by giving their equipment a final paint after it is assembled.
Makes sense :)
If you had a compact tractor like a Kubota L2501 and a 3 Point Hitch Garden Bedder to keep your rows mounded up, and a 3 point hitch mower to mow away the trash before harvesting, that Spedo potato digger would work great.
Its been a while since we had a video about the veggies!!!. Cant lie that looks like one fun piece of equipment!!! Mike you are too funny... 💪 Video Brother
I know a guy that his diet is like a 90% potatoes and he is healthy.
Love your family content it shows how working together can be fun
Mike may I recomend something for next year when you do plant taters.
Yes I am from the south we call them taters.
I see you got a side by side get a plow that is.
Pulled by a horse or a mule hook it to your side by side.
To dig the taters.
Or if you have a small tractor hook a plow to it to dig the taters.
Both methods will work and its easier there is no shaking.
Like the one in this video.
The Spedo works great for me behind my old Farmall. But you need to plant in mounds. It literally kicks the spuds out the back of the tractor leaving them on top of the bed. Come spring I just clean up the mounds and replant. I don't have to fuss with the beds but every other year now.
As you said... always hilling the potatoes. I am sure the digger would do his job much better..... greets from Belgium.
Everything attachments has one that hooks to a 3pt hitch on your tractor.
Thanks for the video. You did a great job showing how it worked out for you.
You definitely need to hill. It says it right in the sales info. I hill and use the Aldo Biagioli root digger on a BCS 850 diesel. I've used it on a 730 8hp and have a video up on here. Horsepower isn't the issue, traction is. You need a lot more weight. I think you should also have been running just above an idle to keep the vibration lower. But it is an expensive attachment. Pry takes a half acre or better to justify it. I have considered getting one, but I only grow about 200 feet of taters. The Biagioli does just fine, and it digs deeper. It is still a workout, it still requires a lot of weight and traction, but it beats a fork. You need to pull the biomass off the hill to keep it from plugging.
I have had great results planting in hay or straw.
The root reach the soil under the bed of straw and the spuds populate in the straw.
Very easy to harvest. You need a potatoe fork, pay the money for quality, there will be less damage harvesting.
Keep you attention on garage sales, like established folks selling. Old is good.
John Doe I prefer straw for fewer weeds. I run furrows with the furrowing attachment on my Troy-bilt tiller, run a drip line down the furrow, drop the seed potatoes in and then cover with straw. I add more straw as the leaves poke through. Harvesting involves rolling the straw aside and picking potatoes. I till the straw in after harvest to add organic material to the soil.
Same here, amazing how well it works.
Sped = Spuds Typically, potatoes are grown hilled up....the BSC will dig them better if hilled.
I agree 100%.
Hi Mike and Erin, I was interested to see if the implement would work or make things more difficult. Just watching Mike try to wrangle that beast was enough to say no thanks. Now, on a possibly brighter note. I've been doing taters for a few years now and used to dig by hand, like you all. A friend of mine who farms educated me in planting the seed potatoes in straw rather than soil. I'm going like, "oh sure this will work, not" but I was found to be wrong. (My wife loves hearing that) I prepare the soil just as I would if planting but instead of burying seed, I just spread them on top and then cover the whole lot with straw. I lay a few pieces of old lumber across the lane to keep the straw from blowing away, a concern of yours I am sure. Soon enough you'll see the shoots coming up and the potatoes look beautiful in the end. Harvest is simply a matter of raking the straw off the top and picking up the potatoes. Occasionally I have some runners that went deep and I dig, but most of the harvest is right on top. Afterwards, I till the straw back in and leave it for winter. This lightens the soil and composts a bit as well. I was cautioned, do NOT use hay as there will be far too many weed seeds and the like in it. Straw is the way to go and I'll be doing that from now on. If you get the chance to give this a try I wish you all the best. Farming/Ranching is hard enough without adding to the cause.
I forgot to say, make the straw about four inches deep.
I wonder if the paint on the digging blade was creating too much resistance and that was why you had to raise the depth? Was there any improvement on the second pass? Can potatoes be grown in the high tunnels? I've noticed the soil seems to be softer in there.
Well it works great you clearly don’t know how to plant and harvest potatoes YOU MUST BUILD A BED TO PLANT IN AND IT HARVESTS BERY WELL I PLANT OVER 200 Acees every year and I have a four row harvester I built out of four of them and hire imergants to pick them up in baskets and haul to shed and produce over 180 bags per acre and a bag is 50 lbs by the way so their just saying learn and produce better results you must little Padawan
I run the Spedo behind my farmall and its amazing with raised beds. But I had similar issues without mounds but it still was better than my spud plow. I'll never go back to digging by hand again. But I couldn't imagine running one behind a BCS lol. My butt gets numb just running it behind my tractor. All in all after a few seasons it's paid for itself by increased yields and I plant less now because it harvests more for me.
Just a tip, it's what professional farmers will often do: mulch the growth before you dig them up. Makes the potatoes more firm and prevents clogging up the digging unit with dry leaves and stuff
Love your channel!!! I see a previous comment mentioned barbell wheel weights. BCS has some great wheel weights available. I purchased my BCS 749 with the filled tires on a recommendation from Joel at Earthtools. Wow! It made a huge difference in traction. Keep the great content coming.
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That is a lot of fancy (non working) moving mechanics for a rather easy job. RUclips wont let me put in hyperlinks anymore... Search pictures in your browser for "potato plow". You´ll find those made for harvesting. Looks like either a pointy triangular or a shovel blade, with metal combs on the end. Buy or weld one suiting your machine. Small is better for a 2 wheel tractor. Make good ridges in your potato field when plowing for planting, it will make harvesting much easier.
I could live on mashed potatoes and steak all my life.
Potato is the most versatile food nowadays.
I know this is two years old but I wanted to add to this video to help others that are thinking of buying a BCS. Just dont.. I bought one years ago to till my garden and bought a mower deck to mow weeds on my 1.5 acre lot. It was not at all worth the money and wore out fast and the lawnmower dealer I bought it from was always reluctant to work on it. On top of that experience I went to pick up my BCS from the shop I bought it from and they informed me that the scrap guy had taken it prematurely without first referencing the repair order to see it was not for scrapping. Personally I think it got stolen they just did not want to admit it.... Anyway the shop owner and I agreed on a new "Troy built" tiller to compensate me since I had upgraded to a better mower anyway and no longer needed the BCS for mowing. The mower deck and setup was always a huge disappointment just like this guys potato picker/shaker it was the slowest and most cumbersome piece of junk I ever owned for use on my homestead.
I am a Farm/Country boy Born & Raised in rural ky at the bottom of the Appalachia mountains & We Was Raised on Soup Beans & Fried Potatoes n cornbread & Would have died many times over if not for them i remember eating potatoes 6-7 nights a week and that's to bs i am grown now n my very late 30's ish and i still eat them 5-6 times a week some wayor other mainly fried ,mashed or boiled & i still love them and if i ever dont eat them then im probably dead or about to be..lol. o and i use ketchup on fried an some times a little mustard some times with garlic cooked with them an others with a big onion cooked n them an mmm mmm Good
The Prussian king introduced the potato first in Europe. The potato is very nutritious and long-lasting, ideal for his army. In the beginning, the farmers had regarded the plant as a fruit and not the potato in the soil.
What do the little track gates/Traktor cost to mow the grass? On these small track gates you could attach the potato plowman.
Then you could sit comfortable and the potato tool can deeper into the earth, work more effectively.
Here in Germany, the cities have small racial mowers where the workers sit on top of them. They mow the grass like a go kart.
Even private person have such a Driver-Traktor for cutting the grass at home. I don't know how much they cost . They have more PS ( Horse Power) and can easy handle the potato-Tool ( Potato Digger )
That is an interesting attempt at a down sized potato digger Erin! I wonder why Deere or Case havent figured out something down scaled for the smaller tractor family? But I do have a suggestion Erin. Maybe Mike could duct tape his mike along side of a garden hoe and hill away his peel off the internet jokes next season? But seriously, even if the rows are well hilled, would the rows be narrow enough for the wheel spread of your BCS? -Bob...
The attachment (I'll call it the potatoe harvester) appears to give you a major workout to run. More so than when using an actual hand pushed tiller.
Really unfortunate for that product when you don't know what your doing. Potato bed wasn't even prepared properly. Its like watching someone hammer nails with with a wrench. Hope BCS never sends you another product.....just terrible.
An e in Italian is pronounced the same as an e in Spanish - it's said like an A, or "ayh" - which means the machine is named "Spade-O" - funny that it's such an English digging tool name, just spelled in Italian.
Hmmmm I don’t know italian or too sure about the “ayh” sound....in Spanish and E makes a “EH” sound...like “El ranchero”...no A sound, so it would read “Spehdo”
@@Maneras03 The E in el is an anomaly for Spanish pronunciations. One of the reason it is an easy language to read aloud and spell phonetically is because of the lack of variance in vowel sounds. An E at the beginning of a word is slightly softer in most cases, but all vowels in the middle of words are pronounced as they are written.
aus71383 I read and write both you’re right the vowels are pretty simple it’s usually pronounced “AH” “EH” “EE” “OH” “YOU” or in English A E I O U
Or set a strong mesh liner on each row below the potato plant with grab handles. When ready to harvest two people one on each side pulls up on the mesh ungrounding the potatoes. I'm sure you can figure out what I mean. Even with cans it can be done. Dump them over. Well those are my 2 cents for today. 👍🙏🇺🇸T20
Every vid I see they have removed the plant material above ground and have made wheel width adjustments plus lock in the drive wheels.Your fighting the plant material. Turn handle to the side for better footing.
If I ever get my own thing going this is about the scale I'd want to be on, two wheeler < 1000ft² of both potatoes and grain that you can't buy in the store. Maybe a half dozen ducks a dozen chickens all on about an acre.
Mike? What if you plant the potatoes above ground on box planters with access for harvesting from beneath instead of above. With latched openings underneath the box planters.
I tried to use one of these for the potato research plots at my job and it doesn't work for potatoes that are hilled in soft sand. We treat the plots like commercial fields and as a consequence the BCS rides on the hill and has too much soil to dig up so it slips and inevitably falls off the hill. I Spent 4 hours in 90 degree heat trying every which way to get this thing to work. The BCS needs more power, more weight and a wider stance to run this thing. It needs an actual tractor.
Here a Link from them , but is in German . You can use Google Translate .
www.mein-gartenexperte.de/rasentraktoren-testberichte
Wheel weights would probably help keep the wheels from spinning and allow you to dig deeper. I don't think power was the issue.
About 10yrs ago, I took the tines off an old cultivator frame, bolted on some angle iron and two pieces 5/16 sheet steel into the shape of a pie wedge with a front opening of 4ft and a rear opening of 15in.
The soil has to be fairly dry and tilled almost to a powder, but it pulled up the prettiest hills I ever could've hoped for. It even left a semi deep enough furough to plant taters in.
Gonna build a planting and digging
attachment to mount to it for next year.
Thanks for watching Steve. -Mike
One of the dealers prefers not to sell these because they are so finicky and don't work very well. Also, the shaking is obviously ridiculous.
Let the pigs eat the taters and i will just eat the Rib-I.Cook medium please.
How about trying to build a potato digger for the little international tractor. A bracket for the 3pt, a spade to dig, sifting bars, and a vibration motor, little bit of welding and presto a digger
Humm....that's quite a contraption! I can see where it might work and be a labor saving device if you had hilled the rows, as you suggested. I would hate to have it damage my potato harvest like that one did. Good demonstration! I could see a wide belt attached to the handlebars and worn around Mike's waist to act as one of those weight loss belt machines! Lol! Just kidding but the image kept coming to mind!
Just a suggestion for Erin, instead of using a shovel to dig the potatoes, we use a Spading Fork to get down through hard ground and under the tubers. It works pretty good and you don't damage as many as you would with a shovel. Anyway, thanks for sharing your review!
Matt our moderator said the same thing about the the exerciser belt. LOL Thanks for watching Dad 821. -Mike
A ridiculously complex machine. The same task can be achieved much simpler.
A friend of mine uses a tiller to dig potatoes. He says you cut some but works better than digging by hand.
The BCS does have the snort to pull the digger through the ground if only you used wheel weights.
Why not to use straw to build up rows over your potatoes. The plant grows up as you keep adding to the pile, and all the potatoes end up above ground and easy to harvest.
what a horrible performance by the machine, it looks like torture for the operator and ruining potatoes
Can't beat a middle buster plow then a potato pitch fork. Not only the easiest but also the cheapest way.
Keep farming, no stand up,,, FONDEROSA FARMS
Couldn't you jury rig a basket to catch the potatoes out the back?
That thing seems mean.. there is no way a person could use it long term
It makes me cringe, you are bruising the potatoes throwing them around like that.
Depending on the year ,as a teen, we dug 54-68 bushels by Hand to sell thru the winter .
At 55# a bushel, well you do the math
That's alot of taters !
It might have worked better if you would have cut the tops of the potatoes off the vine part on top of the ground
too much vibration every nut and bolt bound to come loose,tangle tangle not too much of a machine
the potato flower grows into a poisonour tomato - just proves that for many people potatoes cause serious problems.
The shaking damaged the joke-telling portion of your brain.
Try using a mid point plow to dig potatoes. It hooks up to tractor and way less shaking.
Have you been drinking? You sound ......... Smashed Uffa.....
Erin and mike I watched this last night and I think its a waste of time, just dig them up by hand. Thank you for sharing this video with us.
It really works well in hill/mounds. With how they planted there's no other way besides digging by hand. I got mine used at auction and wont part with the thing.
Yeh its a lot of work with the machinery but its less work than having to do by hand
If you cut the potatogras first, i think you will do better :)
That dude got so sick of eating potatoes he lost over a hundred pounds. I love potatoes.
That's a good one.
Bet he did Rick! -Mike
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Hitch hiking on the ranch 😂😂😂
When I was growing up my dad used a subsoiler to dig potatoes. It worked great.
A lot cheaper
I liked seeing the garden again! I’ve always really liked them and got tips a few years ago about tomatoes that I’ve used.
Glad those Tips were able to be used Angela Bennet. Thanks for watching. -Mike
ROFL!!! Still funny ...... 💓👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍😁
What's the depth
I think my eyeballs would fall into my shoes if I had to use one of those potato digger do-dads. I'd pass
Better than a shovel
U need an antique potato digger for ur ihc
Laughing about the brain damage.😂🇨🇦
What a great video! Really enjoyed you both being on the video. Loved the jokes at the end. Sorry the device didn’t work as smooth as hoped. 🥔
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If u had the potatoes in drills it would work better
Why not get a potato digger for a small tractor.
Is there an implement for a small garden tractor that does something similar? Granted, if you didn't have a garden tractor already, not economical. But it would alleviate the massive vibration.
Yeah. Makes sense. Even something for the international. Thanks -Mike
This same company makes a 3 point hitch version for compact tractors. You can find it at www.everythingatttachments.com.
Do you have any corn because these jokes are corny
I think i would rather use a pitch fork !
Good job joke suck but keep trying Mike
Mike is going to quit the ranch to do stand up
How much this implement bro??
In Scotland we call a potato a tattie and the stem the tattie shaw. Our main crop of tattie we grow is sharp, red duke and rooster the red duke and rooster is a mealy tattle and the sharp is best eaten at the seed tattie size with a slab of butter. Great vid again.
And meats and tatties :-)
OJ Jenkins mince and tatties puts a smile on your face
@@Masseyman-nv2kl mince? don't know any mince other than mince pie :-) mince meat?
OJ Jenkins you don't know what your missing not having mince n tatties
@@ojjenkins7110 our 'Mince' is what you'd call "ground beef" 🐂
Silence of the yams...spudtacular...Noooooo!!
I think, therefore I yam - Mike
Dude is cool, chick is a buzzkill
You guys mite look in KSL.com in the classifieds sometimes they have old potato diggers on there that you mite be able to pull with your little international tractor i think that is what it is any. I hope you guys have had a least a better summer then last. I haven’t got to watch in while so I’m behind
Thanks LeClair Ranch. -Mike
great jokes but they should be mashed
the shaking will loosen your bowels.
Try metal wheel in stead of tyres,The machine would pull better,As it would have more trackshion,
Could you share the design?
mike you did not come off as half baked or mashed jim
LOL Jim Good ones! -Mike
We have a decent sized garden plot -- 48'x60'. It's a hobby. I'd considered getting a BCS for years but just recently purchased a John Deere 3038E instead. Your video confirms my decision. I'm nearly 52 and the thought of bouncing around behind a BCS is not appetizing at all. While our new JD is likely more tractor than I need for our current garden, my old legs won't complain about it too much at all. Thanks again for all you do. God Bless.
You r sopose to plant a potato in a elavaded birm the machine would work way better
Her name is Erin. She said it in the video. Thanks for watching -Mike
@@OurWyomingLife I know her name just thought you Mike helped her Erin
Potato diggers are tricky. A few years back I acquired a vintage ground driven potato digger from a neighbor, and it took some time to get it set up correctly. Originally we used it on a 4020 JD, and it worked well but it was way to large of a tractor, and you would have to drive on top of adjacent rows when digging. We have since switched over to a newer JD 1025r sub compact tractor and it works very well. I imagine if you had a small tractor with ~25-40 hp and a three-point you would have similar success. I didn’t get to film it in action this year, but next time we dig I’ll share a video.
Hi, Erin & Mike, I'm going to weld-up a potato digging bucket for my small backhoe on my tractor. I have an old 16" bucket that I'm going to revamp. Anything beats digging 🥔's by hand, LOL❗
You need stellies or duals for tracton
A single bottom plow (see 'middle buster') works great for digging potatoes. Pull it behind your utility or garden tractor. You don't end up with hardly any cut potatoes with that. Check out other YT videos of them in action. And WAAAAAAAY cheaper than this attachment too.