[AT] Re: Potato Digger comments

[Greg Hass]

In our particular area, many people use old, horsedrawn potato diggers as 
lawn ornaments.  I still see many of them sitting in fence rows.  I have a 
horsedrawn potato digger which I bought from a neighbor for $50.  I tried 
to use it to dig my potatoes for several years (coverted to 
tractor-pulled).  My garden, which is located in a old 1-acre barnyard, has 
very mushy soil which would not go through the chain very well and would 
keep plugging.  So... last year I was able to locate a 1-row PTO-driven 
digger at an auction that had been used for a small truck farm.  It sure 
works great!  Ironically, despite all of the old horsedrawn digegrs around, 
I know of only one person in the whole county who now grows potatoes on the 
commercial level.  However, 60 miles to the southwest of us around the 
bottom of Saginaw Bay, potatoes are grown by the hundreds of acres.

Greg Hass
Bad Axe
(From Michigan's Thumb)