Still digging potatoes...........

Sorry, no pictures. We are still digging. This is like the fall that never ends. It will be another week for sure, before we are done. Big crop. All the storages will be full. The Lord willing , we should be done by the end of next week. This is starting to remind me of digging carrots. It is heavy going, and we had a few breakdowns this morning. Slipclutch malfunction, the bolts fell out, and half hour later I blew a tire on the digger. So by lunch time, I was still doing my first round. And then it rained. But all in all, we still dug 25 loads by 10 o'clock. Anyway, I hope you all have a great weekend..............

Digging potatoes at Blue Bay Farms........

A little update on the digging process. It is going fairly slow. But overall, the crop looks good. Definitely something to be thankful for. Specially today, on Thanksgiving. I hope that everyone was able to spend some quality time with family and friends.
Matt and Amanda were home for the weekend. We really enjoyed their company. But the time goes by so quickly. Specially when we are digging during the day. At least we had a good dinner together on Saturday with everyone. And Salsa and nachos last night.
And as I had promised, here are a few digging pictures.
Here, Klaas is wind rowing 4 rows of potatoes together in between the two that I pick up with the digger.
This is a truckload of
Red Norland potatoes leaving the field. In front of the tractor, you can see the two rows that the digger picks up. By this time, 8 rows have been deposited in between, so the digger picks up ten rows at a time.Above you can see the unloading line at the farm. Here the dirt, rocks and other undesirables get picked out. It takes about 18 people to make all this equipment work efficiently.
This last picture shows the binpiler. As the name suggests, it piles the potatoes in the bin. Beats doing it by hand.........

Notice................

We are busy digging the Red Norland potatoes. It is a big crop. Minimal losses due to rot. Thanks to God, it could have been a lot worse.
And by the way......... Caleb has posted a new blog. Just in case you want a new chapter story to read.
Greatings all, until next time, when i hope to have some pictures too.............