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Is This an old potato digger?

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El Toro

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Someone sent me an email about a grain storage bin in New Braunfels TX that's been converted to a Bed & Bath resort. It also had this picture of this old piece of machinery in in one of the photos. Hal
PS: It's called Gruene Homestead Inn.
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That is a corn binder and the Mennonites in out area still use them to harvest field corn which they then feed through a cutting box to make silage. Those binders make one huge sheaf of corn, which is either loaded on wagons right away or is put in stooks to dry down.
 
Used one on uncles farm in Wisconsin, Grandpa and Uncle used IH equipment till it was REALLY shot before bying new stuff
Orgwayne
 
Nope. I've got a couple of potato diggers in my hedgerow. Also a couple of Iron Age potato planters.

Ground-driven digger . .

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Iron Age planter . ..

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Nope. Some day I want to convert one to a PTO drive, if I ever get around to it. I also like to have lots of spare parts laying around the fields.

Small, one-row PTO drive diggers rarely come up for sale around here, but when they do - they're expensive.
 
I have sat for a few miles on one of those corn binders. Ours had a conveyor on the back where you could let a number of bundles fall on it and then when you pushed a lever it would run them all out on a pile. It helped to put them in rows so that you didn't have to walk as far when shocking them.
 
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