Horse drawn tater digger at auction
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Topic: Horse drawn tater digger at auction
Posted By: john(MI)
Subject: Horse drawn tater digger at auction
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 1:38pm
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Here's another one. I might be attending.
http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/showimage.cgi?lid=1054680&type=at&in=1 - http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/showimage.cgi?lid=1054680&type=at&in=1 ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
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Posted By: wkpoor
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 3:23pm
| Man I've been wanting one of those. Salines a long way to go to see it get run up way more than I would pay. But I still want one. |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 4:04pm
| looks like he took pretty good care of his stuff! |
Posted By: Protrucker
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 6:21pm
| How much do those usually go for? |
Posted By: wkpoor
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 6:34pm
| I've seen them at dealers for 1500.00. I'm sure that is the high end. BUT STILL! |
Posted By: Warren(Oh)
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 6:54pm
| I'd like one of these, too but I'd rather make one to mount under my G. One I wrote to the auctioneer asking for the selling price in MI a couple years ago only brought $125. |
Posted By: junkman
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 7:20pm
| I know where one is that someone converted to PTO. mounted a little transmission onto it. Looked like it had been done a great time back. Didn't ask him for the price. Seen a horse drawn potato planter the other day as well. |
Posted By: Protrucker
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 7:24pm
| I bought one last year without the front wheels for $150 and I found two more about four miles from me that the guy wanted $100 each for. I was going to buy them, but money has been too tight lately. I think he already got rid of them because the last time that I drove by I didn't see them. |
Posted By: John WV
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 7:56pm
| protrucker, I just sold my horse drawn potato digger for $500. was in good shape. I made a 3 point hitch pto driven potato digger from the ground up works great , that's why I sold my |
Posted By: ChuckLuedtkeSEWI
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 8:49pm
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I paid 200 for mine 3 years ago, was alway shedded, but was missing the front hitch so I fabbed something up to hook to a tractor drawbar. Works great. I plant way too many tators to dig by hand. As it is, it takes me, the wife and kids a good day to harvest them all. ------------- 1955 WD45 diesel 203322 was my dad's tractor, 1966 D15 23530, 1961 HD3 Crawler 1918, 1966 D17 IV 83495, 1937 WC 41255, 1962 D19 6221 |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 9:36pm
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I have a Hoover that is similar but I don't have the front truck. I pulled it with the 45 hooked to the drawbar. I spent about 40 hours working on it to get it going and could have dug my taters in about 4 hours time by hand. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Protrucker
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 10:17pm
Yea, but it's fun working on & using the old equipment, isn't it?
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CTuckerNWIL wrote:Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 10:38pm
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Yea, but I won't use mine again unless I can have new conveyor links made. This poor thing I have has set out all it's life and the links look like it covered 500 acres a year for the last 50 years. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: oldironguy
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2011 at 5:08pm
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I bought an IH horse drawn potato digger last year for $175 including the front truck. According to a 1934 piece of literature I have, this machine was made as a Model No 4, No.5, No 5A, No 6, No 7 and No 9. 4,5, 5A were 6' 2-horse units, others were 7' 4-horse rigs. No 4 was a riddle type; all others rod-link type. Options included shaker and vine turner, extension elevator, road rings, coulter attachments, roller type tongue truck, continuous apron attachment, stone trap and special hitches for tractors such as the F-12 Farmall. A direct connect hitch that eliminated the need for the front truck when pulled by a tractor was also available. Mine seeems fully operational except one wheel is frozen. I'll open it up and take a look before potato digging season later in the year.
I also have a horse drawn potato planter that seemed too dangerous to have the grandkids ride; lots of exposed moving chains, gears. etc. I covered over all the dangereous areas, added a shelf for holding the seed potatoes and a drop tube made of 3" PVC pipe. Now rhe kids ride along and drop the seeds down the tube where the shoe has opened the trench. Hillers cover the seed pieces. We planted 6 300 foot rows in less than an hour this spring. Once the kids get the rhythm, the spacing comes out about right, singing or chanting helps too.
 Good luck and have fun!
Dick
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Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2011 at 11:48am
That too bad I didn't know about them, I been looking for one to go with my Potato B.
Keep your eyes peeled. (no pun intended) ------------- Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. From listening comes wisdom and from speaking comes repentance. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. |