The heavy-duty potato digger with belt is an agricultural machinery which can be towed by a tractor or connected to it via a three-point hitch; potato diggers are used to dig potatoes out for harvesting.
Designed to reduce tillage time on large areas of land, and save operators time and effort on high production farms.
A tractor-mounted potato digger generally consists of:
The disc coulters are used to remove excess grass that has grown on the ground around the harvesting area; this is usually done between 7 and 10 days before harvesting.
The oscillating ploughshare separates the soil from the potatoes.
The conveyor belt or drive rollers are used to transport the tubers to the equipment's various discharges.
The sieve performs a further separation between soil and potatoes.
The potatoes extracted and cleaned of soil can be deposited on the ground via a conveyor belt or with a side or rear discharge, which drops the potatoes respectively to the side or rear of the machine, allowing harvesting operations to continue.
Once deposited on the ground, the potatoes can be harvested afterwards.
Heavy-duty potato diggers are machines mainly used on farms to make potato harvesting and processing faster and more efficient.
They are used for large-scale production and in addition to a high harvesting speed, they allow maximum efficiency in terms of product quality and preservation.
Despite the large quantities processed, in fact, the tubers are not damaged and consequently their quality and method of preservation remain unaffected, for consistently excellent production standards.