for rocks you should make sure the space between the rebars is smaller than at the sprocket from te rebar to the shafts otherwiese the rocks will stick between the rebar and the shaft and block the movment from the whole chain.
Great build, just one observation, you mounted the chain tensioner on the wrong side of the chain should be on the slack side of the chain if that makes sense.
I have rocks & broken red bricks (1000's) to dig out of my soil (somebody dumped in here, years ago). Have to get them OUT, and you've helped greatly with this vid !!! It will receive on-going use, for sure, .... Many years ago, this area allowed "offloading" of broken concrete, bricks, mortar, etc. etc ... It's a mess for all my neighbors, too. Great work & solid engineering...only thing missing is a "hopper" at rear to catch the rocks, etc. ....easy to build that part, especially if it's rigged to manually dump the rocks...
I liked (not "looked"... edited) watching you create this most handy device. My pasture is filled with river rock & our gophers & voles keep pushing them to the surface. I've only got a few undamaged windows left. Lol. It would have been more enjoyable for me without the music or maybe just set at a lower volume, because I struggled to hear & understand you many times throughout the video... just my opinion. Your implement definitely turned out beautiful. Very nice skills & finish work! I hope you're enjoying easier potato pickins.
I like everything about it except for your rebar use. Fine for rocks, but would add to damage on potatoes. A good digger actually has rubber over the steel chain to minimize damage. You could probably work something out without too much trouble though. If you do it over, use smooth steel stock instead of rebar.
Good job man, however I see one problem ! Your chain tension pocket is on the tension side , which is wrong , this will cause you problems ! it must be on the slack side . I would like to build one of these .
Well, look what the algorithm offered up. In case you read comments from older videos, you should have at least one off-sight cold-storage drive, one on-sight, and a couple of warm-storage drives, and the working drive where nothing is stored. VOE. ;)
Excellent video, Darn which I could have seen the beginning. You will have to build another one and record it. Also you could as a add-on, coulters on each side in the front to slice through vines if you use it with sweet potatoes. What angle and internal width did you use? What is the brand and ratio for the hydraulic motor?
yes you a right but I dont want make fake videos I want make videos that shows the real life. in this case I dont have any patatoes in the ground that i can dig out and the last harvest was so bad because of the wet weather ther was not one potato to dig out, sorry
Excellent job. I need some informations please. I need it only for rocks do i have to do any changes or it's the same for both? And the second is if i register for your patreon i will have more detail informations about the rock picker? Thanks
Like the build but just wondering if it wouldn’t be easier to control the depth of digging if you use a flexible top link(chain works). This way your three point will lower only the front of the machine without pushing on the wheels but still allowing you to lift the whole thing in the air when needed. Just going by how large potato diggers work.
If I did it like you said it would go into the ground like a excavator bucket and it would change the angle of the conveyor that the potatoes would roll back and it would no longer sift the ground. The top link is holding the vertical position of the entire attachment and thus prevents unwanted angle changes which a chain would change due to flexibility
Its Wayne again, Friend of mine is helping and we are starting to build my version this week. I see you are using the hydraulics from the loader it appears. So how are you controlling the speed of the chain?
Pump or Motor ??? The pump in the tractor is a 12.5 Gal / 550Rpm The motor is from Princessauto.ca t he have all kinds depense of the size your tractor hydraulik pump.
So i just have to go to school for 8 years to learn the scales to use toes machines and spend $80.000 to buy the machines than i can make a potato digger. cool.
@@dsfarmns2823 ironic that comment comes from “The Do it Guy” 😂 There are numerous inexpensive Chinese IGBT welders on the market now so that is t a huge cost. There are even fairly cheap mini lathes if you can’t find one used. Honestly though, that machine could be built without a lathe. You can learn all the skills needed from RU-vid and practice.
