One potato cellar already full! Seven more to go
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Welcome to Day 3 of potato harvest! In this video, I’ll give you an update on the cellar setup and all the new equipment we’ve got running. Then, we head out to the field to chop some vines before jumping on the harvester for a bit. We hit a small snag when a few pieces of metal get caught in the chains, but nothing we can’t handle! Follow along as we work through the challenges of harvest season. Don’t forget to like and subscribe for more updates from the field!
Put a lot more air in them little tires and they’ll stand up taller and stand on the center more and make them easy to turn. Make sure they get maximum air the tires.
Yeah, we probably should check the air. Thanks for the tip.
Man, you have been pumping out the videos the last week or so, and I am here for it!! Keep up the great vids!!
Sorry you had 2 metal bars stops there. When we still used to grow potatoes here just north of London UK, we once had a WW2 German incendiary bomb go up the harvester, into the 14 tonne trailer, all the way back to the intake store, where it arrived on the grader sorting table to be picked off by hand! Luckily we have an army bomb disposal unit based about 20 miles away who came and defused it. Old timers used to say that sometimes if the airfield anti aircraft flak was too hot for the Germans they used to jettison their load over farmland before heading home. Thanks Hitler!
Oh my gosh that is crazy. I definitely wouldn’t want to be digging that up.
I wonder if you could get one or two of those big electro magnets that salvage yards use and mount them in front of the vine beater tractor; or after it. So you can get free metal out of the fields. LoL
Crossover was my favorite to do until you are had to repair the chains on yourself or the harvester
Yes, repairing chains by yourself is definitely not fun
Great video and I like watching it. Our province has started (some already started early crops) harvesting potatoes and they are getting excellent yields. But the processing plants still have 10 million pounds to haul and it maybe until January til they are finished. You probably heard of the the processing plant here in the Maritimes, Cavendish Farms, or even seen some of their products because they ship to the U.S.And worldwide. Thanks for the video... Happy farming.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Hopefully your harvest goes well. I have not heard of those farms probably because I don’t buy too many potatoes. We just use our own.
🤯How much work goes into harvesting and storing potatoes! WOW👍🏻
Yes, it’s a lot of work. Glad you enjoyed it.
have you ever had a year where you had significantly more potatoes than cellar what do you do when you run out of storage
That’s what happened last year and we were scrounging around looking for some cellars that weren’t being used and luckily found these two and decided we should rent them this year too. Next year we will be building a new cellar. I’m not sure what we would do if we had nowhere to put them we would probably just leave them in the ground and disk them up.
@@RockyMountainFarmer man id let the town come dig as many potatoes as they can carry before i just disk em under i hate letting them go to waste i had that happen last year i planted an 1/8th acre of potatoes for a garden and ended up with over 10 pickup truck loads
@angus4202 and than you sell half of what you would have lol
Hi Tehren!
So this year youre expecting lower yield of (hopefully) 450 sacks per acre, I was wondering what was the bumper crop yield last year?
Thanks!
I'm curious. You mentioned the yield per field of potatoes as say 400 bags. Is there a standard weight per bag, or is it a certain number of potatoes per bag?
Thanks for another great video!
Loving all these videos, breakdowns are always a part of farming.
I guess it would not be a harvest if there was nothing to fix. Hope the truck parts can be found quickly to get back up to speed. Was amazed how quickly you filled that first cellar. Keep on keeping on, and take a spare battery pack for the angle grinder next trip to the fields, as it looks like you might need it again soon :)
Amazing work 👍 at night i watch your videos but couldn't give feedback due to out of order i write comment but could not reach the weather is fantastic these videos remind me your previous year of harvesting and planting you are harvesting and we are preparing preparing soil for potatoes and we get rain due to which we are late to plant i watch this content of harvesting late and i want to watch early but as i was busy in preparation good luck your explanation is awesome
Hi,
I hope this isn’t a dumb question… but if you bruise a potato, it will rot, as will any potato adjacent to it?
Man that metal will put a kink in your day! That really slows you down! Thanks for sharing!
Do you not suffer soft skins with harvesting green top?
How late do you usually run during harvest?
What does the cross over do
It digs up six rows and puts it in between two rows that I then dig up with the harvester go check out our first video a few videos back where I explain what everything does
When you say sacks what does that mean and how many pounds in a sack?
Wow that’s a shit ton.
And that’s only the first cellar that’s our smallest one.
Good look Potatoes
Thanks
Really good looking taters.
What is made from your potatoes?
French fries aplenty
What type of potatoes do u grow
what do the bags weigh
here is a question I've wanted to ask for a long time. Here in Australia, we say that we have stored so many tonnes of spuds. To my knowledge we havent used your system of so many sacks or pounds. I dont understand why you would want to express anything in a pound scale, instead of so tonnes. Can anyone try & explain this please
Here in the US, the potato industry started way back, all horse drawn equipment, and a lot of hand work, so the potatoes were sold in 100# burlap sacks, the pickers were paid by the sack of 100#, and so that was the basis of the measurements for the industry. It has just carried through over the years, and potatoes are still marketed in 100# sacks, but also are packaged in 5, 10, and 20# sacks for the supermarket trade. It is merely a carry over marketing method from the old days, and one that everyone here understands.
What is the price of ten pounds of bag
good day my friend 😉
Being a city slicker and the bags I get are 5 or 10 lbs. when you say 450 sacks per acre what is the weight of the individual bag.
50lb sacks. BUT usually these commercial guys count in 100 weight. It could be either 22,500lb per acre or double that depending how they count
In the video I think he said: "35 or 40,000 sacks so about 4 million pounds. "
That would be 100 pound sacks
Can anybody tell what is the price of potatoes in your state