Harvesting SPUDS
S is for SPUDS (AKA potatoes)
It's potato harvest time for here in Ontario.
Harvested potaoes are emptied into a BIG truck
Traveling down a country road, my husband and I spied this orange machine harvesting potatoes and loading them on to a big white but rusty truck.
The harvester pulled by tractor
So, of course, we stopped to watch. That truck holds a lot of 5-pound bags of spuds!
Quality control?
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46 comments:
Oh, farming scene for me is really interesting♬♬♬ Good looking tractor and must be larger scale than here in Japan.
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Very nice contrasts!
Hugs
JetteMajken
Spud is also my Nickname, least on eof them
My parents knew farmers who grew potatoes every year. This time of the year they were exceedingly busy.
Headed for a table near you. :-)
So much better than the backbreaking task of digging them by hand. I'm surprised that they are not damaged by the machinery, tho.
Lovely scenes from the farm.
Mersad
Mersad Donko Photography
oh, YUM! have never seen a potato harvester in action. thanks! my brother-in-law used to drive trucks and such for the potato farmers in UP Mich.
Someone is hard at work. When I was a girl, we all got a day off school to pick potatoes.
Interesting series of photos. I always wondered how they harvested potatoes.
Oh that would be fun to watch. I'd probably have questions though.
I don't know why, but it's always interesting to see people at work like this. I love the big machines especially!
I once lived near a potato field and after the harvest, people were allowed to go in and dig up the ones that were missed. Those were the best tasting ones that I ever had, right out of the field.
Love that colorful, big machine!! And that is a BIG truck indeed! Lots of potato salad there!! Terrific colorful captures! Hope your week is going well, EG!! Enjoy!
i showed this to hubby and he said look at all the jobs lost.. he remembers when they were dug by hand and i remember because i had to dig them for my dad... we did not dig, we pulled up the bush and shook them off. love the pics and what a find on your drive
Nice series of shots!
Pass the butter, please. I'll be a happy man!
That's a great series, EG!
Thanks for sharing the potato harvest, it is a new sight for me.. Great series.
Suddenly I want mashed potatoes and gravy :)
I have never seen potato harvesting before! I never would have known what the orange machine is doing. The colors are fantastic!
Nice vibrant colours! :)
Great shots for S ~ love the colors, composition and textures!
artmusedog and carol (A Creative Harbor)
We sometimes call them Spuds too. Good "S" word.
On the farm where I grew up we had a very large potato garden. We used a one row horse plow to dig them up and turn them over. Then us kids would follow up and pick them all up into baskets.
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Just imagine digging all of those by hand! I cannot help but think things like that.
This is really interesting. I have never seen one.
Oh no, they maybe headed for the masher.
Great photos, and I do enjoy the word spuds!
ALOHA from Honolulu
ComfortSpiral
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S for spuds! Perfect! Beautiful orange harvester, too!
Very cool. Not something I've seen before, and if I did, I'd have to watch too. :-)
Cool pictures!
Finally I know, what "spud" means - I have a reader called Spud ;-)
I like watching potato harvest. MB
Nice photos! When I was a child we, the whole family, harvested potatoes by hand. How easy to have machines do all the work!=)
//Scaniatjejen
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Very colorful!
Nice shots!
Colorful series. I have never seen commercial potatoes harvested, just the ones in a home garden harvested by hand.
Darla
Colorful series. I have never seen commercial potatoes harvested, just the ones in a home garden harvested by hand.
Darla
I've never seen one! Beautiful colours in your photos!
You know, I never wondered how it was done on the big farms...
wow - that is surely a lot of potatoes....mnnn...fried, mashed, escalloped....
Imagine they used to do all that by hand EG, must have taken forever!
Interesting photos. What amazes me is who put together the machinery to do all the harvesting? Farm equipment of this magnitude is very costly. I'm surprised potatoes aren't more expensive. Love them...cooked any way.
How fascinating to watch!
Years ago, my son went to PEI on a high school trip and, being a country boy,thought it was hilarious that tourists paid to dig potatoes. He appreciated the entrepreneurial acumen of the farmers though.
Fancy machine. In parts of Idaho, years ago, schools would close for a week during 'spud harvest' time so kids could help. I suppose that is a thing of the past now.
I love potatoes! As well as that bright orange machinery:)
That is a lot of french fries!
Nice photos...
I love me some spuds, but they're even better with that bright orange machine!
=)
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