The Spedo Potato Digger for the BCS Tractor
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2019
- BCS America was nice enough to let us try a used Spedo Potato Digger and today we put it through the paces as we get it out in the garden and put it to work. Mike throws in a few puns and a few potato facts.
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Our Wyoming Life features our Wyoming ranch and our ranch family. Giving you a look into the workings of ranching from raising cattle to raising and harvesting crops. Erin will join you weekly out of the garden, showing you how she helps provide for our family through growing produce and selling at local farmers markets, and Mike will take you along as he tends to the animals and land of ranch, from calving to fencing to planting and harvesting hay.
About 10yrs ago, I took the tines off an old cultivator frame, bolted on some angle iron and two pieces 5/16 sheet steel into the shape of a pie wedge with a front opening of 4ft and a rear opening of 15in.
The soil has to be fairly dry and tilled almost to a powder, but it pulled up the prettiest hills I ever could've hoped for. It even left a semi deep enough furough to plant taters in.
Gonna build a planting and digging
attachment to mount to it for next year.
Thanks for watching Steve. -Mike
Love your family content it shows how working together can be fun
If you had a compact tractor like a Kubota L2501 and a 3 Point Hitch Garden Bedder to keep your rows mounded up, and a 3 point hitch mower to mow away the trash before harvesting, that Spedo potato digger would work great.
I liked seeing the garden again! I’ve always really liked them and got tips a few years ago about tomatoes that I’ve used.
Glad those Tips were able to be used Angela Bennet. Thanks for watching. -Mike
We have a decent sized garden plot -- 48'x60'. It's a hobby. I'd considered getting a BCS for years but just recently purchased a John Deere 3038E instead. Your video confirms my decision. I'm nearly 52 and the thought of bouncing around behind a BCS is not appetizing at all. While our new JD is likely more tractor than I need for our current garden, my old legs won't complain about it too much at all. Thanks again for all you do. God Bless.
When I was growing up my dad used a subsoiler to dig potatoes. It worked great.
A lot cheaper
In Scotland we call a potato a tattie and the stem the tattie shaw. Our main crop of tattie we grow is sharp, red duke and rooster the red duke and rooster is a mealy tattle and the sharp is best eaten at the seed tattie size with a slab of butter. Great vid again.
And meats and tatties :-)
OJ Jenkins mince and tatties puts a smile on your face
@@Masseyman-nv2kl mince? don't know any mince other than mince pie :-) mince meat?
OJ Jenkins you don't know what your missing not having mince n tatties
@@ojjenkins7110 our 'Mince' is what you'd call "ground beef" 🐂
Love your channel!!! I see a previous comment mentioned barbell wheel weights. BCS has some great wheel weights available. I purchased my BCS 749 with the filled tires on a recommendation from Joel at Earthtools. Wow! It made a huge difference in traction. Keep the great content coming.
Great show!
Cool. I was hoping for better results
But your jokes, well they were appealing
Great video! I loved seeing and hearing Erin involved with the video. I like growing potatoes, we can always use them.
Thanks Bill. -Mike
We grew potatoes as a child. We used a horse and a middle buster to get the potatoes. After the horse, Daddy hooked it to the tractor and my job was to keep it in the middle of the row.
Its been a while since we had a video about the veggies!!!. Cant lie that looks like one fun piece of equipment!!! Mike you are too funny... 💪 Video Brother
I have had great results planting in hay or straw.
The root reach the soil under the bed of straw and the spuds populate in the straw.
Very easy to harvest. You need a potatoe fork, pay the money for quality, there will be less damage harvesting.
Keep you attention on garage sales, like established folks selling. Old is good.
John Doe I prefer straw for fewer weeds. I run furrows with the furrowing attachment on my Troy-bilt tiller, run a drip line down the furrow, drop the seed potatoes in and then cover with straw. I add more straw as the leaves poke through. Harvesting involves rolling the straw aside and picking potatoes. I till the straw in after harvest to add organic material to the soil.
Same here, amazing how well it works.
An excellent Demo guys . Thanks
Thank you jay johana. -Mike
I am a Farm/Country boy Born & Raised in rural ky at the bottom of the Appalachia mountains & We Was Raised on Soup Beans & Fried Potatoes n cornbread & Would have died many times over if not for them i remember eating potatoes 6-7 nights a week and that's to bs i am grown now n my very late 30's ish and i still eat them 5-6 times a week some wayor other mainly fried ,mashed or boiled & i still love them and if i ever dont eat them then im probably dead or about to be..lol. o and i use ketchup on fried an some times a little mustard some times with garlic cooked with them an others with a big onion cooked n them an mmm mmm Good
Thanks for the video. You did a great job showing how it worked out for you.
You definitely need to hill. It says it right in the sales info. I hill and use the Aldo Biagioli root digger on a BCS 850 diesel. I've used it on a 730 8hp and have a video up on here. Horsepower isn't the issue, traction is. You need a lot more weight. I think you should also have been running just above an idle to keep the vibration lower. But it is an expensive attachment. Pry takes a half acre or better to justify it. I have considered getting one, but I only grow about 200 feet of taters. The Biagioli does just fine, and it digs deeper. It is still a workout, it still requires a lot of weight and traction, but it beats a fork. You need to pull the biomass off the hill to keep it from plugging.
Hitch hiking on the ranch 😂😂😂
Found night shade in my hog pen a week before I got em. Was not happy. Thanks for letting me know bout the flowers bein in the same family. Planning on every spring and fall when I get pigs to release in the garden for a couple of weeks first
I really enjoyed this video well done! i make homemade hash browns with russets every morning and red taters at night i love them! and yeah Mr.potato rocks! thanks for sharing -Zeke
I run the Spedo behind my farmall and its amazing with raised beds. But I had similar issues without mounds but it still was better than my spud plow. I'll never go back to digging by hand again. But I couldn't imagine running one behind a BCS lol. My butt gets numb just running it behind my tractor. All in all after a few seasons it's paid for itself by increased yields and I plant less now because it harvests more for me.
Thank you for the technical info on potatoes and machinery and views of the gardens. Great stuff. Please don't give up the day job though. :)
My Grandfather had a old ford tractor with a single plow attachment that he would run down the line and turn the soil over and then we would follow behind picking up potatoes. Worked fairly well.
Just a tip, it's what professional farmers will often do: mulch the growth before you dig them up. Makes the potatoes more firm and prevents clogging up the digging unit with dry leaves and stuff
Yes! Potatoes are very healthy. I'm so glad you covered this. There is a nutritional therapy that has helped thousands of people recover from cancer and other autoimmune diseases that uses potatoes in their therapy. The Gerson therapy! Keep warm out there. ☺🔥
Potato diggers are tricky. A few years back I acquired a vintage ground driven potato digger from a neighbor, and it took some time to get it set up correctly. Originally we used it on a 4020 JD, and it worked well but it was way to large of a tractor, and you would have to drive on top of adjacent rows when digging. We have since switched over to a newer JD 1025r sub compact tractor and it works very well. I imagine if you had a small tractor with ~25-40 hp and a three-point you would have similar success. I didn’t get to film it in action this year, but next time we dig I’ll share a video.
We always lay down a strip of hay amd plant plant the potatoe in the hay above the soil when it comes to harvest just pull the plant and the potatoes come up works slick
Potato’s are the best keep growing and farm also keep the good work up
What a great video! Really enjoyed you both being on the video. Loved the jokes at the end. Sorry the device didn’t work as smooth as hoped. 🥔
нарезают гряды, потом их хорошо обрабатывают, скашивают ботву и тогда устройство хорошо работает.
Hi, Erin & Mike, I'm going to weld-up a potato digging bucket for my small backhoe on my tractor. I have an old 16" bucket that I'm going to revamp. Anything beats digging 🥔's by hand, LOL❗
Corny potatoe jokes. Love it.
Hell of a machine and not bad jokes ya'll. We grow about 4000 pounds of taters out here. We grow em under mulch, no hillin', then we go thru by hand and get the mulch off to get the ones on the surface. After that we bring the tater plow thru on the Kubota, wish it was a John Deere. All told this year we got about 20 rows with 35 plants in each and we're still harvestin'.
Don't forget that Vodka is made from potatoes as well. Truly a super food. Have a great week Mike and Erin
Thanks William hope you have a great weekend also. -Mike
The attachment (I'll call it the potatoe harvester) appears to give you a major workout to run. More so than when using an actual hand pushed tiller.
Dig and cut potatoes at the same time, looks like it's working good 😂🤣😅👍
Erin and mike I watched this last night and I think its a waste of time, just dig them up by hand. Thank you for sharing this video with us.
It really works well in hill/mounds. With how they planted there's no other way besides digging by hand. I got mine used at auction and wont part with the thing.
😂 😂 😂. I was sure at the end; I would see a shepherds crook reach on the stage and pull you off the screen. 👍
The Prussian king introduced the potato first in Europe. The potato is very nutritious and long-lasting, ideal for his army. In the beginning, the farmers had regarded the plant as a fruit and not the potato in the soil.
What do the little track gates/Traktor cost to mow the grass? On these small track gates you could attach the potato plowman.
Then you could sit comfortable and the potato tool can deeper into the earth, work more effectively.
Here in Germany, the cities have small racial mowers where the workers sit on top of them. They mow the grass like a go kart.
Even private person have such a Driver-Traktor for cutting the grass at home. I don't know how much they cost . They have more PS ( Horse Power) and can easy handle the potato-Tool ( Potato Digger )
You two crack me up with the potato vlog. It wants me to watch the Martian again. But, he ran out of Vicodin and ketchup but survived on potatoes!
Lol love most the jokes.
I have great luck with a simple 3 pt potato plow on the tractor. I got it from Tractor Supply (not a big fan). I use it to make a "trough" to plant in, and to harvest the potatoes. Looks like it would damage the potatoes, but it never does. The potatoes literally fly out of the ground. You should check it out if the budget permits. I also use it to plow my gardens in prep for discing and tilling (a bottom plow is not in my budget). I would not be without one.
Love the dad jokes 😂
That was spudtacular.
Do you have wheel weights for your BCS? It helps a lot with traction. We used an old set of barbell weights on our two wheel tractor.(A Grillo G110)
This was a tateriffic video👍
Mike, you might try looking for a used 1 or two row pto powered 3 point or pull type digger. you should be able to get one for less than the price of the one from BCS. You could powered it with your small International tractor.
Mike may I recomend something for next year when you do plant taters.
Yes I am from the south we call them taters.
I see you got a side by side get a plow that is.
Pulled by a horse or a mule hook it to your side by side.
To dig the taters.
Or if you have a small tractor hook a plow to it to dig the taters.
Both methods will work and its easier there is no shaking.
Like the one in this video.
The Spedo works great for me behind my old Farmall. But you need to plant in mounds. It literally kicks the spuds out the back of the tractor leaving them on top of the bed. Come spring I just clean up the mounds and replant. I don't have to fuss with the beds but every other year now.
Everything attachments has one that hooks to a 3pt hitch on your tractor.
Man my kids hammer potatoes..... And ranch dressing 😝
good video
I would think tire chains would help. I purchased a 60 year old Iron Age potato digger years ago. It's pto driven and has been well worth the few hundred I gave for it. Good luck.
Humm....that's quite a contraption! I can see where it might work and be a labor saving device if you had hilled the rows, as you suggested. I would hate to have it damage my potato harvest like that one did. Good demonstration! I could see a wide belt attached to the handlebars and worn around Mike's waist to act as one of those weight loss belt machines! Lol! Just kidding but the image kept coming to mind!
Just a suggestion for Erin, instead of using a shovel to dig the potatoes, we use a Spading Fork to get down through hard ground and under the tubers. It works pretty good and you don't damage as many as you would with a shovel. Anyway, thanks for sharing your review!
Matt our moderator said the same thing about the the exerciser belt. LOL Thanks for watching Dad 821. -Mike
You left me laughing 😂🤣.
Thanks David, at least someone enjoyed them! -Mike
Our Wyoming Life Mike I laughed so hard I tears i my.
This is Karen's husband, Robert again. As a boy I loved potatoes so much I would sometimes eat too many and would get a funny taste in my mouth that I nicknamed the "potato taste" . I once broke down crying when I thought the dinner host had run out of potatoes. I still love potatoes any way they come, with mashed smothered in hamburger gravy my favorite.
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I would agree with folks that a nice weight on the front would be an enormous asset. If you have the plow like attachment, I’d think that would open things up. I personally use a two bottom Ferguson plow. I could see this would be nice to harvest from a plowed up hill.
Obviously, Erin was not overwhelmed with your "totally tubular tuber," Mike ;-)
Got to get you a tater fork!!! Makes digging much easier than the shovel!
I have also found that potatoes grow well in sod.
A neighbor of ours had a 1 row cultivator on an old John Deere B. It worked well. Mike, don't quit your day job.
Hi again MIKE! That potato digger is a way cool implement if it didn't shake your brain up lol! Saves time and back breaking digging so all in all I think it's worth having one. Besides everyone loves potatoes in some form and they are a great nutritional source. Finally I'm thinking you need not give up your title of rancher Mike! Not even part time lol!! Your jolly rancher dude can handle any of your jokester jokes lol! Just that thought makes me laugh lol! Hi to Erin and great to see her again. Enjoy those tators!!!!
I used to dig potatoes with a potato fork and the last couple years I started using my small garden tractor with a potato plow I made from a 3 point tool bar and a couple cultivator points, works fantastic and it pops the potatoes up on top of the ground, I have a video of it working but don’t know how to show it to you
Brian you should be able to share it on either the "Our Wyoming Life" or All Things Agriculture" page on Face Book Brian. Thanks for watching. -Mike
Hi Mike and Erin, I was interested to see if the implement would work or make things more difficult. Just watching Mike try to wrangle that beast was enough to say no thanks. Now, on a possibly brighter note. I've been doing taters for a few years now and used to dig by hand, like you all. A friend of mine who farms educated me in planting the seed potatoes in straw rather than soil. I'm going like, "oh sure this will work, not" but I was found to be wrong. (My wife loves hearing that) I prepare the soil just as I would if planting but instead of burying seed, I just spread them on top and then cover the whole lot with straw. I lay a few pieces of old lumber across the lane to keep the straw from blowing away, a concern of yours I am sure. Soon enough you'll see the shoots coming up and the potatoes look beautiful in the end. Harvest is simply a matter of raking the straw off the top and picking up the potatoes. Occasionally I have some runners that went deep and I dig, but most of the harvest is right on top. Afterwards, I till the straw back in and leave it for winter. This lightens the soil and composts a bit as well. I was cautioned, do NOT use hay as there will be far too many weed seeds and the like in it. Straw is the way to go and I'll be doing that from now on. If you get the chance to give this a try I wish you all the best. Farming/Ranching is hard enough without adding to the cause.
I forgot to say, make the straw about four inches deep.
A friend of mine uses a tiller to dig potatoes. He says you cut some but works better than digging by hand.
Try using a mid point plow to dig potatoes. It hooks up to tractor and way less shaking.
I wonder if the paint on the digging blade was creating too much resistance and that was why you had to raise the depth? Was there any improvement on the second pass? Can potatoes be grown in the high tunnels? I've noticed the soil seems to be softer in there.
I could live on mashed potatoes and steak all my life.
Potato is the most versatile food nowadays.
Well you see in the Canadian Navy it's hard to get a well cooked potato... no matter how they make them. Love the jokes 👍
Something I tried this year was planting potatoes in a truck tire, when they were ready I flipped the tire over with my pallet forks on the tractor and kicked it around a few times and picked them up off the ground. It worked really well, I will probably do a dozen tires or so next year like this.
As you said... always hilling the potatoes. I am sure the digger would do his job much better..... greets from Belgium.
Mike may I suggest cutting the tops off the plant or mowing them before. the potato digger they would come out a lot cleaner
You say potato, I say potato. It doesn’t work as well written down.😂
Hahaha. That’s funny-Mike
Mike Wilder it’s easy pōtātō vs pōtãtō they seem to have left the symbol for short vowels out
glad you got to try first
Erin I don't recommend picking up hitchhikers. That one looked crazy. Lol God bless
Depending on the year ,as a teen, we dug 54-68 bushels by Hand to sell thru the winter .
At 55# a bushel, well you do the math
That's alot of taters !
Erin I’m disappointed you didn’t argue for the tomato being the best/perfect vegetable although the argument about them being vegetable is still ongoing
Nothing like big slice of potato on potato bread
Thanx from the left coast near the Krapitol of California
Hook one of the gators in front for extra pull although I bet if you set up the dirt as you talked about it’ll probably work
A single bottom plow (see 'middle buster') works great for digging potatoes. Pull it behind your utility or garden tractor. You don't end up with hardly any cut potatoes with that. Check out other YT videos of them in action. And WAAAAAAAY cheaper than this attachment too.
Got my Laugh for the day..
Glad you laughed Lady Jay. -Mike
The BCS does have the snort to pull the digger through the ground if only you used wheel weights.
Ok I think we are going to have to do some campfire potatoes this weekend
Enjoy 'em Preston. Thanks for watching. -Mike
Can't beat a middle buster plow then a potato pitch fork. Not only the easiest but also the cheapest way.
Coming from an original equipment manufacturer i can tell you that Spedo is trying to save money by giving their equipment a final paint after it is assembled.
Makes sense :)
the only thing i dislike about the machine is the handles, they would be so much better if you could make them longer for the attachment to fit better other than that its a great little machine so versatile and great video as usual hugsssss from Ontario Canada
I cant disagee about the length of the handles on some of the attachments. Some are just fine others would benefit from another foot or so of length. Thanks for watching. -Mike
If I ever get my own thing going this is about the scale I'd want to be on, two wheeler < 1000ft² of both potatoes and grain that you can't buy in the store. Maybe a half dozen ducks a dozen chickens all on about an acre.
Maybe need to add some ballast on the front of that machine. Maybe a short ton. Haha.
BCS 853 owner here. Consider wheel weights. On my tractor I have extended the wheel base.
Thanks Dixi Road. -Mike
How about trying to build a potato digger for the little international tractor. A bracket for the 3pt, a spade to dig, sifting bars, and a vibration motor, little bit of welding and presto a digger
Too Funny LOL
How many hp is that 2wd tractor? Can you weight the front end, of it somehow
That is a lot of fancy (non working) moving mechanics for a rather easy job. UA-cam wont let me put in hyperlinks anymore... Search pictures in your browser for "potato plow". You´ll find those made for harvesting. Looks like either a pointy triangular or a shovel blade, with metal combs on the end. Buy or weld one suiting your machine. Small is better for a 2 wheel tractor. Make good ridges in your potato field when plowing for planting, it will make harvesting much easier.
Mike? What if you plant the potatoes above ground on box planters with access for harvesting from beneath instead of above. With latched openings underneath the box planters.
I always wish you well. In my 66 years I have learned multiple income streams but limited crops. My father was correct.
Thanks for watching Earl. -Mike
Great video as always your joke's need work don't give up your day job Mike thanks again
Aww They werent that bad really LOL - Mike
I tried to use one of these for the potato research plots at my job and it doesn't work for potatoes that are hilled in soft sand. We treat the plots like commercial fields and as a consequence the BCS rides on the hill and has too much soil to dig up so it slips and inevitably falls off the hill. I Spent 4 hours in 90 degree heat trying every which way to get this thing to work. The BCS needs more power, more weight and a wider stance to run this thing. It needs an actual tractor.
Used to grow potatoes in my garden but turned the garden under this last spring. It was not worth the time or trouble and you have to wait forever for something to eat.🙋
Love the jokes
Ditch the shovel,potato fork is the tool to have
Thanks for watching bmck 2010.-Mike
The eyes have it on this vid....Halloween soon for The Monster Mash
Its giving you quite a good shake, which I suppose if not bad won't be good for you too. Still, it's cool and looks like an alien machine.
Maybe a dually tire setup would give the BCS the traction it needs to pull the digger.
chisel plow works well.
Have you tried it with wheel weights? It definitely needs some
This must be for small tractor, the two wheeler doesn't seem to have enough weight to keep traction. Also it's best to cut tops a week or so before harvest, just to keep jam ups to a minimum.