Old IHC Ptotato Digger Restore

John B. · Oct 13, 2014

Here's some pictures of an old IHC potato digger I bought for $100 back in 1987. I took it completely apart had new sides made for it and found some new parts thru Rice Equipment which he found in Mo. I drove my 39 F14 with the digger in tow a mile back to one of our freshly planted fields in early 1988 to get these two pictures. I thought it was a good setting. We raised potatoes for the very first time at the Mascoutah Homecoming in 1988. That's me on the digger. It was a big hit and we did if for years afterward. I thought you all would enjoy these pictures.

RayP(MI) · Oct 13, 2014

Nice job. Could I borrow that for about 15 minutes each fall?

Paul from MI · Oct 13, 2014

Sure beats digging them with a fork. Nice job, bet putting that link chain back together was fun.

John B. · Oct 13, 2014

You sure could Ray, if I still had it. I sold it back around 1999. I got tired of moving it around in my shed by hand. Couldn't back it up with a tractor.

John B. · Oct 13, 2014

No actually the elevator chain was very easy to put back. No bending of the hooks were required.

GeneMO · Oct 13, 2014

We had a hand plow type digger. two wooden handles, and a guide wheel behind the plow, the taters went up either side of the blade and across four or five fingers where some of the dirt fell off. Left the taters on top of the dirt.

We pulled it with an H farmall.

Gene

rrlund · Oct 13, 2014

I probably should do that to mine some day,before everybody forgets it was Grandpa's.

NEKS · Oct 13, 2014

How deep did you have to put it in the ground to get all the taters. Looks like it would of taken more power then what you have on the front of it.

John B. · Oct 13, 2014

I had the taters hilled high so we didn't have to go real deep. We kept them strawed all summer until the show and we mowed the patch.

JMS/.MN · Oct 13, 2014

Interesting idea.....having handles on your wood blocks. Plus a nice job on the digger!

GVSII · Oct 13, 2014

I was just about to comment on the handles.Digger looks good too!

I was just about to comment on that

(quoted from post at 08:20:20 10/13/14) Interesting idea.....having handles on your wood blocks. Plus a

nice job on the digger!

Dan in North Houston · Oct 13, 2014

Make the handles out of an old nylon strap and they won't get bent.

black · Oct 13, 2014

I have the same one and pulled it a Ford 8n and it worked okay . Still sitting in the field and getting rusty . What kinda of $ are they worth to sell

RC Brooks · Oct 13, 2014

Wow! I've never seen one here (no one grows potatoes due to the clay). Very nice.

Fullers Farmalls · Oct 13, 2014

Yours looks identical to mine. I wish ours worked better. More frustration then it was worth. I wish I had a slower tractor to pull it with. Anyway it looks great. I enjoy the pictures of these old units being used.

JRSutton · Oct 13, 2014

Nice!

I love to see restored implements - any old implement. Lots of restored tractors, and I don't want to say I get bored looking at them, but once you've seen a few dozen of them the do start to look the same.

What I like about implements is that there's so much ingenuity(usually)in them. Always something a little different to see.

John B. · Oct 13, 2014

I bought it for $100 in 1987 then put another $200 in it. I then sold if for $300 years later. Kind of wish I would of kept it. I would say now days it would be worth $300-$500.

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