Harvesting potatoes

It is time to harvest potatoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq2tiwtXksM

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Your crop doesn't look to be very heavy. What percentage of potatoes does the mechanical digger damage, and are your rows spaced specifically to fit the tractor wheels? You seemed to be running down top of the next row. Wouldn't that crush potatoes near the top of the soil?

Stikkibeek;518994 wrote: Your crop doesn't look to be very heavy. What percentage of potatoes does the mechanical digger damage, and are your rows spaced specifically to fit the tractor wheels? You seemed to be running down top of the next row. Wouldn't that crush potatoes near the top of the soil?

Maybe it not look very heavy but I am satisfied to results.

You can avoid digger damage when You adjust machine dig under to potatoes, rows spaced nicely on this tractors wheels width.
That was almost last row and other wheels runs already on grass, not on the row.

Bring your harvester here at potato time - we'll provide the DB

Cheers,
Ronnie

Ronney;519045 wrote: Bring your harvester here at potato time - we'll provide the DB

Cheers,
Ronnie

Just say when You start to harvest potatoes, I be there.

Metsaman;519048 wrote: Just say when You start to harvest potatoes, I be there.

Ha Ha! Early crop Christmas time, main crop March. DB very good during this time.

Stikkibeek;519062 wrote: Ha Ha! Early crop Christmas time, main crop March. DB very good during this time.

So You have there spring time/early summer at this time. [:0]:confused:

Here is colder and colder every day... autumn and winter is coming..

Metsaman;519112 wrote: So You have there spring time/early summer at this time. [:0]:confused:

Here is colder and colder every day... autumn and winter is coming..

"Official" 1st day of spring September 1. but.........signs of spring and a change in the temperature mid August, however we are plunged back into snow, (Down in South Island and central plateau,) and the rest of us have been having rain, rain and more rain. 140ml of rain here in 48 hours last week. Spring is normally our wettest season.

I like to get our potatoes in soon after Sept. 1 so we can have new potatoes for Christmas but the ground is still too wet to put the gravely through.

Stikkibeek;519117 wrote: "Official" 1st day of spring September 1. but.........signs of spring and a change in the temperature mid August, however we are plunged back into snow, (Down in South Island and central plateau,) and the rest of us have been having rain, rain and more rain. 140ml of rain here in 48 hours last week. Spring is normally our wettest season.

I like to get our potatoes in soon after Sept. 1 so we can have new potatoes for Christmas but the ground is still too wet to put the gravely through.

Get new potatoes for Christmas.. thats really cool ... :cool:

Here in Finland on Christmas sometimes are - 25 degrees celcius cold...

Stikkibeek;519117 wrote: and the rest of us have been having rain, rain and more rain. 140ml of rain here in 48 hours last week. Spring is normally our wettest season.
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If only that was the case here, its bone dry and i'm watering the garden ATM, we have only had one decent rain since Oct last year and that was 42mm in June

Of course I wasn't talking about DB (David Brown) in the above posts but rather http://www.taverntrove.com/beerpics/DB-Export-Beer-Labels-Dominion-Breweries-Ltd_46225-1.jpg
Just the ticket after digging potatoes

Stikkibeek;519352 wrote: Of course I wasn't talking about DB (David Brown) in the above posts but rather http://www.taverntrove.com/beerpics/DB-Export-Beer-Labels-Dominion-Breweries-Ltd_46225-1.jpg
Just the ticket after digging potatoes

Wondered about that prefer monteiths.......summer ale

Okay, Metsaman ...

Your game is up!
Here was I, thinking you were in faraway Finland, when all along you've been living amongst us.

WillEyre;519400 wrote: Okay, Metsaman ...

Your game is up!
Here was I, thinking you were in faraway Finland, when all along you've been living amongst us.

:confused:

Do You mean that I look like him on the picture.. ?