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DennisA (IL) 
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Posted: 08 May 2011 at 9:52am |
The ground finaly dried out so I had my girls planting potatoes. They planted 6 - 300' rows. That should equal 1543 plants. Hope we have a great season!!!
Edited by DennisA (IL) - 08 May 2011 at 10:29am
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TedBuiskerN.IL.
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Posted: 08 May 2011 at 10:00am |
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Cool, but Good Friday is potato planting day. LOL
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Posted: 08 May 2011 at 10:24am |
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Great pics, Dennis. Looks like they were having a good time!
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Posted: 08 May 2011 at 11:05am |
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Looks like fun. I picked up an old potato planter last spring but we still did them this year by hand. I think I might have to get it ready for next year as that looks alot easier. How far does the planter space them apart?
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DennisA (IL)
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Posted: 08 May 2011 at 11:06am |
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About 14" apart.
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Posted: 10 May 2011 at 6:59pm |
Hey Den! GREAT PICTURES! Tell the girls GOOD JOB!........ it's nice to see young girls take an interest and get out there for some spring planting and work with nature and scratch the soil instead of talking on the phone, looking at themselves in the mirror, and playing with their faces all day.
Think about it Den, in years to come they will beable to tell their kids and grandkids that they remember planting potatoes with Dad's old G. There is alot to be said for that Den, it builds character, and provides them with a solid understanding of where their food comes from ant what it takes to get it on the dinner table. Well done all the way around! God Bless! Dennis.
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Posted: 10 May 2011 at 7:07pm |
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As someone who isn't a farmer, I'ld like to know more about that equipment. Where's the power for that tractor, under the seat? The planter looks like a combination of automatic and manual process, could you explain? Thanks.
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Posted: 10 May 2011 at 8:05pm |
that has got to be the neatest thing to see those kids take an intrest in doing the planting, wish those were my kids,
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Posted: 10 May 2011 at 9:05pm |
 Forestgnome wrote:
As someone who isn't a farmer, I'ld like to know more about that equipment. Where's the power for that tractor, under the seat? The planter looks like a combination of automatic and manual process, could you explain? Thanks. |
The tractors engine is behind the seat so you could see better while cultivating, and the planter either has what looks like a chain ladder or a spoked wheel that spins and the person on the planter drops a potato into the gap between spokes or "rungs" and it moves it over a hole dropping it into the ground
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Posted: 10 May 2011 at 9:25pm |
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Thats nice to see the younger kids interested. Hope my daughter is that interested in helping out dad when she gets older
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DennisA (IL)
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Posted: 10 May 2011 at 10:50pm |
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The planter has a conveyor which has paddles spaced so it drops the seed 14" about.You place your seed potato between each paddle. As the planter moves forward the conveyor moves and drops the seed down a tube just behind the shoe and onto the ground. Toward the back of the planter there are two disc hillers that covers the seed and makes a nice mound. It works very well, the girls planted 6 - 300' rows in about 1/2 hr.
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Posted: 11 May 2011 at 7:47am |
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My question is, how do they decide who drives and who plants? LOL
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Herb(GA)
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Posted: 11 May 2011 at 7:54am |
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How much plowing do you do with the G; I notice the moldboard plow pivot assy mounted to the G frontend? Herb
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Posted: 11 May 2011 at 12:59pm |
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We used to always plant 300 pounds of seed potatoes at my Grandfather's as close to St Pat's day as possible, for 4 families. We would use grandpa's WD and change the front shovels to put two big shovels on to make the rows and put the smaller ones on to cover up with. We usually dug them at the end of August and would get around 3,000 pounds. We really enjoyed the tour of the potatoe farm with Bob in Maine the other year at the GOTO. They did things a lot different than we did.
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Posted: 11 May 2011 at 4:38pm |
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Really great pictures -- they are doing a good job. I notice they don't trade places, must be some king of pecking order involved --- LOL.
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DennisA (IL)
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Posted: 11 May 2011 at 9:28pm |
The girls did trade places I just didn't think about a picture till after they switched. They each planted 100 pounds of taters.
My wife plows with her "G" at plow days.
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Posted: 11 May 2011 at 9:34pm |
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Great pics,Thanks for posting
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