The Spedo Potato Digger for the BCS Tractor

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.

Love your family content it shows how working together can be fun

Cool. I was hoping for better results But your jokes, well they were appealing

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.

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.

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.

When I was growing up my dad used a subsoiler to dig potatoes. It worked great.

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 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.

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. ☺🔥

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 )

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.