Saturday, 3 October 2015

Spuds and More Spuds

It is time to harvest the potatoes and store them in the shed. We have been having a dry spell and they have been busy gathering them in every day.


The helm has died off and the harvester digs the potatoes out of the ground.


The potatoes are then sorted mechanically and manually so that the soil as stones are dropped back into the field.


As you can see they have a supervisor!



The potatoes are tipped into a trailer to be transported back to the shed.







3 comments:

  1. licking my lips at the thought of one of them baked. Good to see Sky is diversifying in herding roles!

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  2. Wonderful photos - they are harvesting potatoes here in the Pacific Northwest too - and they'd better hurry because 10 or more days of rain is coming, starting in the middle of the week. Great supervisor!

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  3. This is a handsome machine - didn't you have one years ago which required laying on your tummy to sort out the stones?

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