Hilling Potatoes with the Wunderbar Tool Bar
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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2021
- Here we change out implements over to the potato hiller on the Wunderbar Tool Bar by Woodward Crossing. A great addition to every market garden, homestead, or personal garden!
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I owned a 300 ac potato farm in N. Florida for 25 years. We had dirt guards on our hiller to smooth the soil. Take some 2x 1/8 in strap metal and weld three pieces together to make a half H with one side about three inches longer. Weld a short piece of angle iron with hole in it horizontally to the back of the hiller shank about 4 in above the axle. The long side of the half H will have a hole and you bolt the guard flat ways to the angle iron. The half H will extend back, across, and forward on the back side of the disc. You bend and adjust the guard so it soil coming off the disc hits it and shuffles under the potatoes. It will leave a fat, square shouldered row and will cover up small weeds without knocking over the potatoes.
I no longer have the farm or that equipment (long sad story). I bought an old B7100D that has a bad motor but it came with a bunch of attachments. I was going to use it to work in my garden. I just bought a JD 1023E because I am lazy and haven't fixed the Kubota yet and I wanted something with a HST and a loader. I didn't have a tool bar so I bought a 2"x48" sq tube and welded a a short piece of 2 in to it so I can mount it to the receiver hitch attachment I do have.
Looks like you have a fine operation, good luck keeping it going.
Thats what I have been looking for. Do you have a link I can look into that?
And just an idea, but if you used both bars, and had set your cultivator blades on the front bar, lined up to plow the dirt or atleast break it up, and had the discs on the rear bar to throw it inward to the potatoes, I think you'd see there wouldn't be a need for a second pass. The discs do so much better when they aren't having to plow the soil before tossing it.
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Perfect Job.
Need to do an update since dailing it in
Have you ever seen any sketches or drawings with dimensions on how to set your discs to hill potatoes? Yours seem to be at 45 degrees to travel direction along the row. Are the disc shanks perpendicular to the ground, or are they angled to lay towards the tractor, by shortening the top link? How far apart are the discs? Do you line the inner disk edge with the edges of the potato plant leaf canopy? Im guessing you have to move them further apart as plants grow, but how far apart should they be for each hilling.This is my first year with my woodward crossing hilling discs. All hilling before was done by hand, and its sort of straight forward, and you can adjust what you do as you do it. Not so with a tractor. Dont want to mess up this years crop because I dont know how to set up my disc hiller.
You did a good job. Spend 20.00 on another 2in pipe. I like your channel thanks
I since have. I just wish 1/4 wall was still $20.
Great vids bro
Thank ya man
What is the width of your disks?
I start at 16" then 24" then 30". I try to hill in stages but the past 2 years has been this in 3 passes the only time the ground is dry.