A useful purchase for the garden - a potato digger for a walk-behind tractor

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Probably, every person at least once in his life has de alt with planting potatoes, hilling or digging them up. Most of us remember these hard, exhausting jobs with horror. But progress, as you know, does not stand still, and now modern industry can offer devices and devices that replace manual labor. A potato digger for a walk-behind tractor is one of them.

This technique, designed specifically for harvesting potatoes, can be used both in small household plots and in collective planting in the fields. Potato diggers for a walk-behind tractor are not suitable for harvesting root crops in an industrial volume: it is more expedient to purchase a tractor here.

Using a special unit not only saves time and nerves, but also preserves physical he alth. With it, you can effortlessly harvest the entire crop in just an hour or two, instead of wasting a day with manual digging. Depending on soil type and machine model, up to fifty acres of planted land can be processed in just one hour.

From a huge numbermodels presented in specialized stores of agricultural and motorcycle equipment, every gardener or gardener will choose the appropriate option for himself. A potato digger for a Western or domestic-made motoblock can work on any type of soil, while showing good performance. Chernozem, sandy loam or sand - this unit absolutely does not care where it is used.

But how to choose the right potato digger? After all, the range of models offered is really huge. At the same time, the range of prices for the presented models is significant. Each of the available samples has a lot of specific advantages. The main selection criterion for many gardeners is the weight and cost of the unit. For farmers, such parameters as productivity, reliability and reliability will be a priority.

For example, the Russian-made potato digger for the Neva walk-behind tractor is slightly inferior to expensive Western counterparts in design or ergonomics, but has excellent technical and operational characteristics at a relatively low cost.

The most popular and in demand on the Russian market of agricultural machinery are considered to be rotary throwing units. Devices of this type dig a layer with potatoes, release the fruits from the ground and throw them to the surface. A single-row potato digger for a walk-behind tractor, on average, captures up to half a meter in width and a quarter of a meter in depth. The potatoes laid out on the surface can only be collected in a prepared container.

A potato digger for a walk-behind tractor can be designed for harvesting from one or two rows, therefore, depending on the amount of planting space, you can choose the right model. Often, small farms use exactly two-row units for quick harvesting.