potato digger

noun, an agricultural instrument for digging potatoes

“What happened when the potato time came, he’d call in all the neighbours, and we had a potato digger, and he’d give them away. That’s all there was to it, I mean, and there was so many that went to rot because there wasn’t even enough neighbours to come and pick them up.”

“At first Dad plowed them out, and then later he got a potato digger. The potato digger would go onto the potatoes and go like this. They had gears to shake the mud off. When he plowed them, we’d have to take the stalk and shake the mud off it, and then take the potatoes and throw them in the row and pitch the green stalk. It was hard because it was so cold.”