Antique potato digger

[jpro]

If anyone would like to see an antique potato digger in action, they can go to YouTube and search for Shared Bounty. There are a couple videos of a 100 plus, year old potato digger.

 

[maxwell99]

nice machine, never saw one like it before,

thanks,

 

[Anonymous-0]

That's a cool lookin old digger! Wish I had one like that, looks like it applies the minimum force to roll the taters out!

 

[El Toro]

Here's another old potato digger. I wish I had one when I grew a lot ot potatoes. Hal

 

[Roy in UK]

It reminds me of the Ransomes Potato spinner that once we had (Almost exactly like the one in the photo ) My uncle bought it at a farm sale in 1969 for about £5 (pounds) I guess. We hardly ever used it because it seemed to bury as many spuds as it dug out but it was OK if it was too wet to use the elevator digger or for 'Opening out' headlands. Just before we sold up in 1996 I dragged it out of the nettles, replaced the depth wheel with an old one that we had kicking about in the yard, wire brushed it and slapped a bit of blue paint on it so it would look a bit tidier for the auction. We got £100 for it!