Great video! I don’t think most people are aware that NC is the top sweet potato producer.

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What is the purpose of undercutting?

Sweet potatoes right? Do the vines die off naturally, or are they mechanically removed somehow?

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That’s an interesting little fix

It's always great. Your video is excellent quality. We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks

Absolutely beautiful job!

roller rpm?

rpm ?

You need a Peanut Sweep, (Vine Lifter), cut back just in the bottom of the furrow, 1 inch deep, not disturbing the Hill of Potatoes, folding the Vine back up to top of bed. The have a right hand & left hand sweep for either side of the row.

2021 or 2022

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Nice

Video is to short. We (the viewers) want more of that action. Most people don’t have a lot of knowledge of the sweet potato harvesting processes.

Worked on 2 or 3 vine cutter prototypes at NCSU back in the late 70’s. 1 had 2 turf tires turned on the horizontal centered on top of the row, 2 modified peanut vine lifting sweeps in front of them punching all the vibes in front of the tires, it was OK, had promise. The best was a set of rubber mower conditioner rolls out if a New Holland Mowco. Set them up running 1.5 inches of the row top with the front run set 2 inches higher they did a excellent job ripping everything on the row out of the ground, occasionally pulled the main root. The best we worked with back then was the Mowco Rollers, tested all 3 of them for 2 or 3 years at the Clinton Field Station. You look like you’ve hot a great model there.

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Is this Clifton Dixon who used to farm in N.C?🤔

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Bro!!!! hole shit..... that's a lot of weight..... LOVE THE VIDEO KEEP IT FLOWING!!!!!!

Do you ever modify a mulcher or rotary tiller with listers & your rolling cones on back. Ferguson equipment in Suffolk Va made one back in the day, I know BW implement in Button willow California use to have some similar row mulchers. I found mulching rows in Potato’s to eliminate all clods & uniform beds prior to planting helps so much with harvest, once the mother root is pulled if possible the dirt has a grated tendency to fall away.

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Nice piece of equipment but it is WAY too much weight for that three point. Glad I don't have to take it down the road...

Few things pay as well as pulling & cutting stalks behind a picker. Good to see. I saw the Orthman puller in a field once, good machine like this one.

When I was at NCSU in the 70’s & early 80’s we worked on several mother vine pullers like this, vine shredders, & chain diggers. The photos, working diagrams & videos are all at both the Library on campus in archives & the Ag Eng Dept. One was a little similar to this but they had some neat ideas & working models that never went into production. I’m certain anyone interested could look them up. I remember testing some in Clinton at the research farm there at the time.