DYI Potato Cultivator

[chicken stalker]

Ok so my father every year is determined he is going plant as many potatoes as possible. Last year he planted about an acre of about 6 different varieties. The fall comes around and he needs a ton of help to dig them all up. We usually come up and dig a couple rows for him...which takes about 4 hours with my children. He has a rototiller which he prepes the rows and keeps the weeds down. Has any one ever made a DYI potato cultivator/harvestor. He is not a spring chicken and I worry about him digging up all those spuds. He is very handy with a welder and can make almost anything. I just want to get some ideas in his head before the next season. Thanks.

 

[k0xxx]

I have no experience harvesting potatoes by hand, but I would guess that an acre would be tough to do, especially as a person gets older. It may be worth hiring someone with a tractor and a middle buster plow, or a the very least, hiring some energetic teenagers.

If he has a riding lawnmower, he may be able to fabricate something similar to a middle buster for it.