Home-Built 3-Pt. Mounted Potato Digger

Home-Built 3-Pt. Mounted Potato Digger MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous 24-5-8 Home-Built 3-Pt. Mounted Potato Digger "I built it because I was too lazy to dig potatoes by hand," says Del Bergeron of Assiniboia, Sask., who used scrap steel to build his own 3-pt. digger. It cuts through the ground, causing potatoes to ride up over long steel "fingers" and rest on top of the ground where they're easy to pick up. The 3-ft. wide rig is equipped with a series of 16-in. long steel tines spaced about 2 in. apart. The tines are welded to a steel rod that's welded between two long curved shanks. A pitman û made from the linkage off a car's steering system - is used to shake the tines up and down in order to shake the dirt off the potatoes. The pitman is attached to one end of a shaft that's bolted to one of the shanks. The other end is connected to the tractor pto. As the shaft rotates it turns a crank that's connected to the pitman, which makes the rod and tines go rapidly up and down. A pair of small rubber wheels that mount ahead of the tines are used to control their depth. Each wheel is connected to a telescoping vertical shaft that's attached to the rig's steel frame. The depth is adjusted by changing the position of a set screw in each shaft. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Del Bergeron, Box 156, Assiniboia, Sask., Canada S0H 0B0 (ph 306 642-3291).

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