Digging potatoes PEI style!

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Philip d

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• Oct 19, 2017

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Our friends/neighbors have a 750 AC potato operation,my cousin runs the digger. They're picking up 13 rows. They're digging an irrigated section and this dry summer we had made a huge difference. He said a group of farmers were in from Maine looking at the digger. It's a brand new 3 row Allen made on PEI. It has no pto shaft.100kw diesel generator all electric motors. That way it eliminates a lot of chains shafts variable speed touch screen controlled motors. Everything starts and stops in sequence at the touch of the screen. The guys from
Maine said they can buy a 3 row Allen $80000 cheaper than a 3 row Spudnic due to currency exchange.

 

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Philip d

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• Oct 19, 2017

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Charlie M

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• Oct 19, 2017

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Sure beats my one row horse drawn digger. However that beats a fork. Amazing how the equipment has changed over the years.

 

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centash

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• Oct 19, 2017

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Thanks for the pictures. It sure is interesting to see how other crops are farmed. Ben

 

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jeffcat

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• Oct 19, 2017

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You said digging with a fork. Amazing how much damage you can do with a fork to the potatoes. How little damage a machine will do.

 

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37chief

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• Oct 19, 2017

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Need to sell a lot of French Fries to pay for that machine. Stan

 

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Philip d

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• Oct 19, 2017

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For sure, they will sell about 22 million pounds worth for this years contract.

 

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Philip d

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• Oct 19, 2017

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Your welcome, its a huge part of the economy on the Island.

 

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Philip d

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• Oct 19, 2017

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They can set the belt speeds wherever they need them to carry enough clay to not skin or bruise the potatoes but keep the loads clean.

 

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Philip d

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• Oct 19, 2017

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It sure is, there's really impressive equipment in Europe too.

 

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rrlund

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• Oct 19, 2017

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Here's the stuff they use here. Built by Lenco here in Montcalm County Michigan.

 

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Philip d

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• Oct 19, 2017

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That's really impressive! There's no Lenco in these parts yet that I know of. Some Lockwood ,Double L,Spudnic,Grimmie,used to be Thomas,Heston and a few others.

 

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rrlund

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• Oct 19, 2017

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If you saw Lenco's shop,you'd wonder how they ever built one,much less all of them there are around here. They're kind of the standard of the industry here,but I don't think they're very wide spread,market wise.

 

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flying belgian

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• Oct 19, 2017

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I don't think I can justify buying one of those machines to dig the 4 hills of potatoes I planted this year. But if they have a lease program it would sure cut down on the time I will spend digging them by hand. I think I will check into that.

 

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Philip d

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• Oct 19, 2017

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When I was in with him it was filling in the field on the gps map screen. Every section has recorded yield for every field they dig.

 

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Tom OConnor

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• Oct 19, 2017

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Here is one from Arizona which is a lot smaller but you need an endless supply of Mexicans for the harvest.

 

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Richard G.

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• Oct 19, 2017

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Wonder if they can beat my pounds of potatoes per gallon of fuel.
Richard

 

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4520BW

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• Oct 19, 2017

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When I was in college going thru the deere program we took a new combine out to a farm to practice setting and adjusting. The farm also grew taters and it was interesting to watch them being harvested. Never new they grew taters in indiana!

 

rustred

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• Oct 19, 2017

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Well its bud the spud from the bright red mud rollin down the hyway smiling with another big load of potatoes! the spuds are big on the back of buds rig... there from prince edward island!

 

Ande

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• Oct 19, 2017

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HaHa, here is my big rig.

 

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RayP(MI)

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• Oct 20, 2017

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Thanks Randy, Saved me the trouble. Beat me to it.

Did you check out the old Oliver on Stanton-Ithaca road East of Stanton I called your wife about?

 

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rrlund

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• Oct 20, 2017

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Ya,I had seen it there before you called. Dick said he thinks he's asking $10,000 for it. Kind of steep for a trailer queen. It's the Hart Parr that he ran the planer and stuff with in the sawmill.

 

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caterpillar guy

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• Oct 24, 2017

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20 years ago or more I dug and loaded taters with a 2 row Logan like the yellow one in Colorado in the San Louis Valley on the Sangre De Cristo Farms worked for the guy cutting wheat from south to north 3 years.