Potato harvester

[2] The potatoes are moved towards the back of the harvester on to a separation unit and then (on human-operated machines) to a picking table where people pick out the stones, clods, and haulms (stems or stalks) by hand.

Older machines were drawn by horse and were driven by a ground drive.

It works by a flat piece of metal which runs horizontal to the ground lifting the potatoes up and a large wheel with spokes on it called a reel pushing the clay and potatoes out to the side.

The potatoes are then gathered by hand, placed into containers and transported from the field for further packaging.

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