TIME TO DIG THE SPUDS THE OLD-SCHOOL WAY -- MASSEY 711 POTATO HARVESTER AND 35X -- A FAMILY AFFAIR

[@jj1517]

I really enjoyed this video. Have never seen this type of digger/harvester working until now. Thank you for the fun!

[@waltervonoer9190]

I still remember my youth, when we crawled on our knees through the furrow and collected the potatoes in baskets. Then later, on the threshing floor, cleaned and sorted over a vibrating sieve. Reward for 8 hours of work was 20Kg of potatoes. As a child, one did not have much to expect here in Germany.

[@SD43]

As my Mother's sadly long departed dear Irish friend always said" If you've potatoes in the house you've always a meal! If Bro's hands were as fast as his mouth it'd be a one man job! Lol

[@lukagiltrap77]

I've just realised that most of your best videos are the ones that involve the whole clan!

[@donaldthomas5852]

Good to see your family all jumping in to help harvest your potatoes. Here in Kentucky we grew tobacco and a lot of labor was involved so all family members helped. My older brother grew truck garden to sell at the farmers market. He would have 3/4 of acre of potatoes. We would help him plant and harvest them. He didn't have a machine to plant or harvest them . We used a layoff plow and drop the seed potatoes by hand and cover them over by using a garden hoe. We would also use the layoff plow to dig the potatoes and pick them up by hand. A lot of hard work. The 35 Massey looks nice. Good video.

[@alanyoung7655]

Great too see 1 of those harvesters going....I was brought up picking spuds by hand with swills and bags... then we got 1 of those harvesters....used it for a few yrs till we got a ransome faun harvester.... which we got on with a bit better for the simple reason it was carried on the 3 point linkage... n less likely we got mired.... but this vids brought back a lot of happy memories

[@dickdungfork8334]

Harvesting potatoes this way reminds of me when I was still at school in the 70's. When I used to work on a farm in weekend and school holidays

[@robinbrown6809]

Did this early 50's,but picked by hand crawling along the rows and putting them in baskets, got 5 shillings a day, big wages for us kids in those times. Should put kids back doing this, gives them some kind of values for life ahead and appreciate what they have

[@alicegamble6145]

Really enjoyed this video. That machine works a lot quicker than the old way by hand.

[@tedcrilly8990]

Absolutely class videos! 👍 Your so lucky to have the old and the newer machinery to work and the experience of ur ould lad for repairs. You and your clan are by far the best channel, very entertaining with proper machinery and good laugh ye all have doing it. Just keep doin what ur doin 😃😃😃

[@johnkennedy5655]

Bro was the best spud picker of the bunch That looks like more fun than picking by hand the good old days

[@theulsterscots]

Lol used to carry a bag like that in each hand by the neck to load on a flat bed trailer driven between rows of bags that were dropped of the 711 as they were filled. Young ones now days struggle lifting one bag with both hands or even 2/3 of a bag it seems 🤣🤣 enjoyed seeing the old skool machinery at work again after all these years 👍

[@ianhaggart1438]

Great video. Love the old school. Respect to you and your family for sharing this. 👍 Your going to need some hessian bags for that and then you'll have an excuse to buy a bag lifter for a fergie loader👍 well done. Stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👌

[@gally7]

Bravo. Great to see a happy family with clay on their hands

[@barringtonhill7375]

Never had a fancy lifter like yours, 1959 we used a John Deere A single cylinder horizontal with 2 ox type adapted re- ridger chain drawn manual lifters splitting two rows at a time, later a Ferguson TED petrol/ paraffin 3 point mounted spinner, then PTO driven chain belt lifter. Good video , thanks

[@truethought369]

I love it because you Irish have the best humour of all, also I like the way you take care of your 35X, which to me is the best little tractor ever! The 710-MF spud-picker, seems to find it hard to cope with damp soil, but in sandy soil it would be excellent. Thanks for the video, great stuff.

[@michaelconroy7445]

Great video phil I love it when ye as a family all get together. Bro is some man for the language 🐔 😂..

[@theblueknight5679]

That’s so true lol

[@Harry-Williamson]

He’s a vulgar lad

[@samuelrobinson9012]

@@Harry-Williamson VERY..!!!

[@ghostrider7688]

He could do with a hardcore boot camp around that language and make him man up 🙏🏻 he letting the family down badly with that carry on

[@vxnova1]

That picker is so much handier than gathering them from the ground

[@tomroskell1849]

Phil there is a unloading convayer made for that machine, under the table is a pto pointing backwards, goes on there. My dad owned one of those 711 "back in the day " all the best from sunny Lancashire. Great video by the way 👏

[@sandymcghee3328]

Awsome video farmer 👩‍🌾 Phil that will keep you going for a long time good 😌machines for the spuds 🥔 good to see the family helping keep safe from covid 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧👩‍🌾👩‍🌾🥔🥔👍👍😌🚜🚜😷😷

[@theghostofcornpop4175]

Wish I had a family like this , great team 👍👍

[@iansimpson2148]

Super video of tatie harvest brings back memories weeks of working harvester with MF135 and same harvester

[@laytonphillips6667]

Great video phil, good to see the machine working and everyone enjoying it.

[@steviechalmers1218]

That takes me back as a kid Phil ‘ Glenkiln Farm & and Mount pleasant farm on the Isle of Arran Lamlash had a similar machine ‘ but It loaded the trailer ‘ excellent to see it again in action 👍

[@wilmurph9]

Another fine video Phil. I'm told a single chop harvester with the chute removed is a good job for defoliating the stalks.

[@donalfahy1933]

Mother Phil is in another video, Phil your like a child with a new toy ,was looking forward to this video

[@simonferris7850]

What a great family well done farmer Phil is some operator 👍👍

[@jamesbyrne4975]

Great to see old school machines working

[@ethanearle9457]

A great machine that , lovely to see you all working together

[@leonsuggate3478]

So relaxing and enjoyable too watch !!! 😊😁.....thankyou .

[@brianovington]

Great video to have future to see the whole family working together.

[@joemcgarry6915]

I enjoyed your video when you planted the potatoes and found your video lifting them very funny and really enjoyable.

[@PReilly-xl5wk]

Father Phil was in his element

[@cwdtransport2247]

I use a Flail Mower that’s 6’ wide

[@edwardconnolly8580]

Fantastic video Phil absolutely brilliant bro is some character

[@edjovi3677]

am a lic plumber from usa love too this !!!! stuff does happen were i live looks like a great way of life edbonjovi

[@roberthiggins6401]

That was great Phil, seeing the Harvester working, it's a shame the ground wasn't drier. Your brother has a very good technique picking the spuds.

[@lorengolliher2712]

Just one more before I go with the grin on Father Phil's face is priceless

[@IFarmWeFarm]

Great video, very enjoyable to see the crack ya’s had and a great machine for the job.

[@theforester3474]

Well done Phil. that's what it was like when the soil was heavy much easier when it was dry.

[@iainpaton7129]

Great video friend keep them coming but please stay safe friend

[@willmoore3790]

Love the craic between you and your bro man!!!

[@markgreen394]

that was the most amazing thing i have seen in a long time, farmer phil cool vid,cheers

[@chemicalmike646]

When I was a teenager, I had the chance to work on a potato digger. It was actually pretty fun, as there was a good team that got along with eachother. I worked on a few other farm machines at that time as well. I look back now, and I actually miss it, even though the work was actually pretty hard. Especially the hay bailing! :D

[@anthonymorgan6774]

Great to see he all working together and happy what life should be.🚜🇮🇪☘️

[@johntaylor7427]

Great video as usual, keep up the good work Phil

[@johncallaghan3367]

Great video, took me back to late 70,s early 80,s we had Johnson faun 1600 harvester similar type driven by a 188. It had a bagging platform on the front of the tractor. Faun had an attachment to clear the stalks from the drills. Titled a Haulm pulveriser. We also modified an old JF single chop to clear the drills.We we digging spuds early not sprayed off. Summer 1982 we were getting 5 pound a 4st bag at the field gate for Queens.

[@arthura.applegatejr.7145]

My Dad and Grandpop who were the second largest potato growers in the north east from 1936 to 1968-9 had vine beaters. They were powered from the 540pto on the tractor and had rubber tines to beat the vines off the potatoes before they dug them with a Lockwood tractor mounted potato combine harvester.

[@butler9236]

To clear the over burden such as stalks Alot of people use a tarrup single chop to clear ground before harvesting spuds

[@johnsheahan7914]

Great video as always keep up the great video phil

[@tommypayne1980]

Giving out about picking a few rows of spuds. When I was young we picked 5 acres of spuds , same of turnips and carrots by hand and filled a 10 ton trailer .

[@markfoxton894]

Great video .super to see all the family helping

[@vxnova1]

Yes there is one with chains that rotate with multiple chains vertically instead of the single chain horisontally

[@johnleonard7963]

Great video of all the family helping out seem to be enjoying it 👍👍👍👍

[@ianmarshall170]

We had one of these Massey harvesters in the late 70"s we pulled it with aFord 4000 the next door farmer came with his 7000 & forage harvester to defoliate the crop, I think you could set these harvesters up to either pick off potatoes or sod which ever was easier our farm was just north of Wigan and we had a sign painted on the canal embankment wall that said save on potatoes!

[@noelbredamulcahy6701]

Never saw d like that spud digger. Noel from cork

[@michaelplesch]

All I can think of is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! Nice load of Spuds

[@donalfahy1933]

Good man bro the best at picking the potatoes 🥔

[@theforester3474]

This brings back memories of school holidays in the late fifties if I remember correct the farmer used a MF 65 multi power that was down to a crawl on forward speed however the crop went straight into trailers, I think there was around five or six pickers on the harvester that kept changing places as some were hard pressed depending on where you were standing. how about trying hessian bags next time.?

[@Dara-sp3cc]

great video Phil the 35x and potato digger look smashing! No school like old school!

[@jackbennett5476]

When we grew spuds the set of drillers for the back of tractor cleaned all the drills of before digging them up

[@channelwanderer7010]

Lol the thing we took the shaws off with was the old pto mounted belt driver. The old fashioned cast iron pulley driven off the back with chains welded on it. Always an argument as to who would drive it though i was usually tasked with the welding. Favourite bit was i clucking told ya

[@wallaceloan4169]

Now Phil this brings back a lot oh happy memories. We used to dig potatoes with a digger like you have. We used to grow half an acer like you and Lib are thinking to grow next year. We had enough of the half acer to keep two houses going till the next harvest. Great team work Phil to see the whole family out getting the job done. Great video Phil

[@nicklad9463]

Great to see richie kavanagh helping ye with driving the tractor 😂😂😂

[@petrokemikal]

Chrisht !!!! I rember back in the 90s when I was a teenager in Ireland... Every year Id have to do the spuds with me Uncle.... Horrible Horrible week... We had an agromet z609 digger .. two row which used to just dig and run the spuds up a conveyor belt and drop them out the back..stalks and all.... Then we were on our hands and knees with 10 litre white buckets picking and firing them into the loader bucket until we wished we were somewhere else... We did 7 acres every year... Took about a week to do with about 12 of us at it..... Every now and again If I was lucky.. Id be sent to the shed to work on the grader and bagger.. Wouldn't do it again for Love nor money !!

[@ghostrider7688]

I picked for a farmer for 10 years , he had a blue ransoms digger , single row , on the back of a Massey 565 , we picked them into wire shopping baskets and fired them into trailers : We could fill 2-3 trailers a day in long drills , back breaking work for the 1st 3 or 4 days but then the body gets used to it . Healthy grafting n no picnic

[@What..a..shambles]

yes ,i followed a 2 row that would leave them on the ground back breaking even at 16 ,fun memory was the farmers wife brought us all big snack boxes of chicken and chips n tae and we were all lying up with big bellies when he came back and his words were "It'll be strong tae only tomorrow " :)

[@ghostrider7688]

what a shambles we were damn glad to earn some money 💰 as back breaking as it was

[@garethbryson]

looks mighty craic. My mate has one of those diggers. I might grow a few drills next year and get the mates for a days picking.

[@garyclark8236]

What a great video with the family, are you pleased with the outcome?. And will we be seeing a full field of potatoes in the near future, tc stay safe 🚜🚜🚜

[@dougtheviking6503]

Good video Phil 👍 Daddy's got to be happy with new toy . I thought little wet also .. but worked great . Love when Bro gets involved 😉 . How do you store potatoes on farm ?? Is Bro going to wipe off spuds extra dirt ? 🤯🤗🤗🤗🤗 Thanks Phil good one . !!!👨‍🌾👨‍🌾👍🍺

[@amdvideos3610]

The harvester is running sweet. There is a Kverneland potato topper on DoneDeal.

[@nickhill3362]

Great family effort and great vintage machine Phill 👌👍

[@pjdoyle5105]

Brilliant video Phil. Great craic

[@jerryodriscoll3691]

A flail mower would be handy for the defoliating I would assume just the tidy up afterwards

[@darrenlord5439]

My that looks the coolest machean i ever seen id look at that all day

[@donalfahy1933]

Great machine was looking forward to seeing this video

[@roadwarrior8560]

Brilliant, but old school around here was a spade and shovel, hard work and sore on the back, great days though. too easy to buy them nowadays.

[@ghostrider7688]

Looks a good yoke Phil a fine outfit now the tractor and harvester together . It looks a combination of a digger n potato grader all in 1 . Hope she doesn’t break down too much on ye . Great to have all the help you have onboard 👍🏻 You try a month or 6 weeks at spuds lad you will know all about it ⭐️🤩💪

[@MOHAMMEDAGROFARMS]

Great video, thanks for the video.

[@jackthewisedog5171]

Lots of spuds and lots of chickens when Bro is on the job LOL

[@frankgibson8861]

Great video , the dampness was against you i always love the crack on the back of a harvester regards N Ireland .

[@kt3537]

Great machine you sound delighted with it!! 👌😊😊

[@smalldairyfarmerirish]

mighty video nice potato harvester

[@steven907]

Brilliant video Phil loved every minute of it 👍👌

[@michaelmurphy6692]

In the farm I used work on they used use a douple chop harvester to take off the leaves.

[@nialldaly7108]

We used to use a fingerbar (mowingbar) to cut the stalks and dig straight away and pit the potatoes with straw and earth

[@johnmooney3258]

Nice setup lad. Proper job. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@PReilly-xl5wk]

Well done Phil great video 😂

[@flock_ness]

The way that's picking up those stones, I could do with one of those! 🤣 Great video, thanks for the video. That does look a good way to spend a few hours.

[@edwardmoss2002]

Hi Phil its great to see your sister Jessica and you should get her to be in more of your video i liv is now great video

[@stjepanhuzjak]

We use a flail mower to clean the rows before harvesting potatoes

[@loganrussell1198]

Very tidy looking machines their phill 👍👍

[@AutodidactEngineer]

I put a 58 hp 4 cylinder engine in my massey! I got the engine from an IMT 558 also was rebuilt!

[@jackmorrison4381]

You could use a wee grass topper to defoliate, I use it on spuds👌

[@peterdurnien9084]

Nice tractor, I knew people who made them, the father of lad who lost his hand in the machine that was towed worked at Massey Ferguson.

[@paulrowe2194]

Great vid phill ,haha loved that cockerel.

[@HenauderTitzauf]

Well, YOU might call that old school. BUT, in my day, in the early 50s the old way was a potatoe fork, back breaking digging, and even more back breaking bending over to pick them up. This new fangled tater digger you show here would go so great.

[@patodwyer721]

That was only a trial run for the harvester. Next year you need to grow around five acres and ye can start up a farm shop in the yard. And a few acres of them parsnips and carrots and the lot. The bro gets "man of the match" for his contribution. Well done bro. Looking forward to seeing the 35 with the front and back mowers next year😂 Great production again Phil. Well done to all involved.

[@colmkennedy3109]

Great video Farmer Phil 👌🏻👍🏻

[@seanmhor]

Used an old single chop, to top the weeds and stalks off first. Done two rows at a time.

[@ghostrider7688]

Was thinking the same thing

[@Robstew9000]

Spent a few hours on a harvesters helping pick potatoes..good vid Phil

[@patrickheaney5871]

Good video phill, like the machine, taught you show have more spuds maby the seed didn't go in fast enough not mentioning any names 😜 nise to see

[@evanmcauliffe6339]

Love your videos Phil ......

[@sid.r299]

Wow that video brings back memories! not all of them good 🙈. Long days and busted finger nails!