This Machine May Be Old but it Sure Beats Using a Shovel!

[@douglasbasinger2513]

Enjoying the variety and like watching you and your Dad working together.

[@89Built]

Thanks 👍

[@brucegarrett7232]

The uniqueness of y’alls channel is your willingness to help others in the community, no job to hard, not repetitive and you and your Dad have the same mindset of making things happen and it works .

[@domthomas1002]

" If your welds break. You're fired!" 🤣😅😂

[@frostys64]

😂😅

[@hosshoffer7579]

Beats a shovel any day. Would have liked to have one growing up but dad believed in building character.😃

[@jeff-s3f]

Great stuff..got lots a life left in her.

[@Anna-MartWait]

Very interesting...good job🤗

[@steven.h0629]

Dang, with all the mig's these days, I'd forgotten how thick a good stick lays a bead 16:52 👍😎✊

[@michaelzimmerman6647]

Nothing like service that pays you back!

[@jimedge8301]

👍 good job restoration of a nice piece of Americana boys' 🙏

[@89Built]

Thanks 👍

[@tsparky236]

Love the family aspect of your channel Sean, nothing any better than family working together. Merry Christmas to you, your Dad and all the fmaily sir. Be safe and thank you again for bringing us along with your adventures.

[@89Built]

Thanks so much and a very merry Christmas to you and yours!

[@kirbysisk7003]

Good morning guys. Hope u have a good day and be safe from florida

[@larrykittell726]

Way to save an old piece of history!

[@ledesclos5321]

Love you guys and the work you do.

[@frostys64]

Thanks

[@dougdean3134]

Nice to see the old implement brought back to life.

[@RG-ce5hj]

Nice! I love seeing old equipment being brought back to working condition. 👍👍

[@89Built]

Me too!

[@mechanic416]

I remember using one of those back on the farm I worked on in the early 60's

[@robertr4193]

Looks like with some basic maintenance and a little TLC the potato harvester should work out and keep digging potatoes for some time. Just needs dialed in to start working now.

[@HazzyME]

One row digger. Haven’t seen one in a while. Spade looks good but the lags have seen better days. Lower the spade till you get dirt 1/2 way up the bed. You carry the dirt to cushion the potatoes to prevent bruising

[@Ronald-68.]

I am so enjoying the content you have been creating keep it up brother

[@Kiss-qz2oj]

Another great video. I love the different variety of videos. ❤

[@89Built]

Glad you like them!

[@HeckYeahBen]

Always fun to watch!

[@kathyhelton2606]

Shawn you and your dad make a great team please keep these great videos coming, Would like to wish you both a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

[@frostys64]

Thank you! Same to you and your family

[@Keinandrew3]

Good morning guys thanks for the video will watch after work

[@89Built]

Perfect plan

[@bobstratton6362]

I knew of a company that used those for digging tulip bulbs in the 70’s and early 80’s. The old boy was right. A bunch of young people would follow behind and sack the bulbs.

[@jmjm6607]

Great job again.

[@89Built]

Thanks

[@jmjm6607]

@89Built thank you brother and your family.

[@craigsouthern5089]

Thanks for taking us subscribers along for the ride. The way you and your dad work together,reminds me of working on my mom's family farm,years ago. Whatever it took to get er done,you just did it. 👍✌️🤙🍀🍀🍀🍀🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤪😂🤭😝😋🤗😃❤️.

[@89Built]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@williambrown5074]

Your videos are great.cant fix new equipment. Seems like now everything has a five year shelf life.thanks for the videos

[@PhilPrater]

Thanks again for doing these videos.

[@89Built]

My pleasure! 👍

[@tdublove9558]

Cool video. i have never saw a potato harvester before

[@89Built]

Me neither

[@FAYEWALKER-s4h]

GOOD MORNING SHAWN N SHANE GTSY..IF WE DONT SEE U B4 CHRISTMAS YALL HAVE A BLESSED ONE ,,,BE SAFE

[@frostys64]

You as well

[@Myhandle306]

Merry Christmas Sean and family.

[@89Built]

You too. Thanks

[@steveschmitt5137]

Sean, every week you do something different. This is working out yo be a great channel. Keep it up, and thanks for sharing. You and Shane (Dad), as well as your whole family, have a Merry Christmas. Stay safe.

[@frostys64]

Thank you

[@zigz0911]

Just keep in mind that the reason a lot of farm equipment is bolted or riveted together is so it can flex. Same concept as semi truck frames. Usually welding on farm equipment like that will just make it crack later. Had that experience with a disc years ago.....

[@89Built]

Thanks for the info!

[@kevbev1524]

That's a very valuable machine in the Dakotas or Maine, My only potato state knowledge unfortunately. 😂 Thet grow Gooding good

[@MrDan1509]

I love Lee.. He reminds me of my Grandfather!

[@Rusty_ok]

Must be an older video. Looks like your Shop lights have not been changed in this video yet. Thanks for posting we enjoy your projects.

[@chriswilson-smith3767]

Now that’s different thanks for posting have a great Christmas 👍👍

[@89Built]

Thanks, you too!

[@timidater4803]

We had a small co. In Avery ohio that used to build these diggers, there is still one in the local museum

[@frostys64]

Awesome

[@Bigdaddyslasher]

I thought the same thing pull a cart behind it with expanded metal floor to the dirt falls thru.

[@papatomsthoughts]

Merry Christmas all😊😊😊

[@frostys64]

Same to you and your family

[@89Built]

Same to you

[@Glen-b8t3h]

That right reminds me of my younger years when I was harvesting potatoes for a farmer. We did a lot but with a double row harvester and all was picked up by hand.

[@marklar7551]

Matt W did that fan trick on the Bombardiers 👽🗿👽

[@rhondasweeney7271]

Awesome potato picker! You are right, better than a shovel! Thanks for sharing! MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅 🎄 TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES ❤

[@kenfrazier616]

pretty slick

[@whalleyish]

I followed that machine when I was a kid on the family farm put the potatoes in bushel basket then to the root cellar

[@willardelsasser5310]

I worked for Lockwood Mfg. many many years ago. We had a full line of potato equipment. That looks like one of our old single row digger.

[@marvincarter870]

Good morning and Merry Christmas to you guys! Good video fixing up this old potato digger so it will work again is awesome.

[@89Built]

Happy holidays!

[@Mike-ki9ug]

Don't mess with Dad muscles Sean 😂 . Thats so cool to see that something from 80 years ago still works now they make things so more complicated than they need to be . Your Dads my age so we have to stick together against you whipper snappers lol and we are not old we are middle aged 😂happy holidays from Florida

[@frostys64]

😂😂😂

[@rickydonahue1586]

What a neat old machine. It just shows you the necessity breeds invention. Back in Maine when I was a kid the potato farmers kids would get two weeks off of school to help bring in the crops. I don't know if they still do there's probably some child labor law preventing it these days.

[@bryduhbikeguy]

I happened to watch potato harvesting a couple days ago. After the potatoes had been pulled up and dropped in a row with most of the dirt shaken out on the machine, they just went back down the row and let it do the job again with a conveyer into trucks.

[@botfoblhrp]

sweet

[@shannafrost1596]

This was a fun watch. They don't make things like they used to. What's the difference between stick welding and torch welding? If that's even what it's called.

[@frostys64]

I’ll explain it to you when I see you

[@paulbrowne1665]

Ok Shawn you find a tractor then it disappears you have to keep the continuity up and get your dad to talk to the camera that's us Not having a pop really want you to be successful but you have to remember we are here with you

[@AlexeiTetenov]

Thank you for sharing!

[@raganpickering8334]

Great to see old equipment come back to life. Question for you, how are Paul, Merlin and yourself all related?

[@89Built]

We are all first cousins. Our parents are siblings.

[@frostys64]

Cousins

[@raganpickering8334]

Well I am related to you through Grandpa. My Grandpa was the youngest of the William Edgar Cox kids.

[@tdfulton2954]

Thanks for the great videos Have blessed holidays

[@89Built]

Thank you too

[@angazi1341]

My great grandfather had a patent for the chain potato digger like you are working on

[@ralphnorris-vk8ff]

Take a green tractor and paint it orange and gain 10 to 15 hp and extend it's live by 10 years!

[@89Built]

Indeed my brother Inlaw would agree with ya on that one!! Right Jeff

[@kpdvw]

after all that work those Curly fries will taste great....!

[@koslund11]

Seen an old picker on line that looks a lot like that one. It had a two wheel unit, it was attached to, then attached to the tracktor.

[@mattthescrapwhisperer]

Can't beat the old gas axe when you're bending big iron.

[@denniscleveland669]

I think that the potatoes just go out the back, lay on top of the ground and cure a bit, before picking and storing. Now i wonder if he hills by hand, or has an attachment for that?

[@kc6nfv746]

10 11 years I would of love to make money picking up potatoes I go around collecting pop bottles so I could by another bottle of pop

[@frostys64]

I did the same thing

[@jeffquackenbush7433]

where did your new shop lights go

[@frostys64]

Sean’s shop

[@DacDac-w7r]

You guys never said that it was pulled by Horses back when it was first used. The first one was patented in 1885. Now this one is newer because it is PYO driven, but how new? Or was that added?

[@frostys64]

I think the pro was originally installed on this one. I’m pretty sure this one wasn’t horse drawn

[@davidsandberg7631]

I have 5020....

[@larrydavidson3402]

Never saw a digger like that, If it could talk think of all the stories it could tell.

[@gost9396]

[@wesgraham9588]

👍

[@j-jfabrication]

you guy need a rosebud badly what torch base do you have ? i may have an extra one

[@frostys64]

It’s a victor. I have one just didn’t think I needed that much heat on this little project

[@edwinschlee8374]

Well, I guess I'm as old as that potato digger too. What year was the tractor? We had an Allis Chalmers when I was a kid. Good job getting the hitch fixed on it.

[@mikka811]

Tell your buddy to never work on that thing when running off the PTO. An older guy years ago was all by himself in the field and the machine got stock in the machine. He tried to clear it and somehow the sleeve of his shirt got caught in the machine and it ripped his arm off. He died in the field after he bled out! They weren’t to worry about security then…

[@larrymoons2258]

Sean, How do you decide when to use “stick” welding over MiG or TIG? Thanks!! Larry, Mobile

[@rexwright2386]

Go bye your dad straall hat lol

[@kornami8678]

Need a can of WD-40 for that squeaker and adjuster.

[@travisfisher594]

👍🏻👊🏻

[@canifixit3504]

I stopped watching fabrics 98% of the time is only fixing the same junk over and over and over also stopped watching cads channel and Matt's of road