Checking out homemade potato diggers. There are some crazy contraptions. Some are better designed than the cheap commercial ones!
This one goes super fast and appears to be made of stainless steel :)
Hmm, not that complicated, these potato planters.
A drive wheel to power a sprocket, a motorcycle chain with some cups attached, some bearings, a hopper, a hollow furrower to drop the potato into and two rotating discs.
But it doesn't throw the compost into the furrow with the potato 🤔
https://marguciai.lt/darzininkystes-technika/10282-1-1-os-vagos-bulviu-sodinamoji-mateng-pl.html
Phew, potatoes are in. It was a very long day doing it all in one go.
After making furrows, I dug up some compost from the bottom of the pile, threw it through an old fence gate to filter out the undigested bits and then installed the fresh compost in the bottom of each furrow.
On top of that goes some sifted wood ash, but only sparingly, followed by the seed potatoes gently pressed down into the compost.
Then I raked the furrows shut with a little hillock on top.
Finally tidied up everything except the compost sifting station, inhaled some food and had sauna. 😅
Potato field also got crumbled and looks better now, although we didn't get any real rain since I did the first round.
Going to use this horse drawn furrower with my trusty diesel horse pulling to make furrows. Every year a different experiment until we got it down. Last year was too much manual labour.
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