Spudnik 8908 Belt Potato Planter

0:00 to 0:20 Intro
Spudnik takes European technology, adds American engineering, and creates a new planter with greater capacity, greater planting speeds, and the ability to plant potato seed with the need to cut the seed. Comment with any questions.

[@csil2863]

Good video! I enjoyed it better with the sound off, but it really was a good video.

[@rogerhodges7656]

This is a much better video. The explanations are just enough to understand what is going in.

[@patrickc8190]

what is the range of size is the seed your planting?

[@bkrfarmssoil4life495]

I grow chip, russet, and yellow varieties. My chip and yellow varieties were all pretty uniform at 2-4 oz seed size. However, my russet varieties were variable from 2 oz all the way up 14 oz.

[@patrickc8190]

​@@bkrfarmssoil4life495 thanks for info, russets you must cut some to plant. Is the belted planted pretty accurate for spacing?

[@bkrfarmssoil4life495]

Yes, very accurate. This planter has some automatic features that adjust spacing on the fly. It measures the seed pieces as you plant and so if the average seed size gets bigger, it widens the spacing (big seed pieces need more space). If the seed sizes get smaller, it narrows the spacing. It has another plant mode called weight average. There is an onboard scale and it has the ability to give an average seed piece weight. Once again, if the seed gets heavier, spacing widens, if the seed gets lighter, the spacing narrows.

[@patrickc8190]

​@@bkrfarmssoil4life495 wow impressive !

[@patrickc8190]

@@bkrfarmssoil4life495 something i forgot to ask, how wide are your planter rows? 36" or 30" or something inbetween?