Jamison Potatoes getting some more Maris Piper planted on Easter Monday with some cracking land which we seen the ploughing in back in February.

The first process in the field is ridging up the drills for destoning. David in the John Deere 6155R with the ridger on the back pulling up the ridges with full use of the John Deere Green Star GPS System. Not only does this ensure full use of the field but also makes the following jobs much easier when following.

Niall on the John Deere 6130R with the Jones bed former working the ridged beds with a Patterson Bedtiller working down the larger clods and lumps into a finer profile for the destoner which will remove any large objects and stones. On the rear of the machine we have two ridge bodies to keep the beds neat.

Nigel in the John Deere 6155R with the Grimme CS150 destoner working across the field removing clods and stones from the beds. When it comes to harvest time this gives a cleaner sample in the box for easier sorting.

Once destoned we have the planter, Adrian in the John Deere 6610 with the Grimme front hopper which is applying Yara Topcrop fertiliser. Planter on the rear is a Grimme blah cup planter. Fertiliser is places in the same line as the potatoes which gives them a kick start in the growing process. As we move to the rear of the planting setup we can see the hopper is never filled this is to ensure that the little buds/eyes dont get damaged. As the cups move around they gather a baby spud and deliver it to the bottom unit. It is then dropped into a channel and placed with a specific distance to the next one and then as we spin around we have a blah which then covers over the baby potatoes and gives the finished drill...

I need to plant my potatoes but this might be over kill for the 20 I need to out in,   great footage and fascinating to see behind the scenes.  

Great job of documenting this process.  I really like how you got so very close-up and a lot of the footage.  

The precision of those machines is an engineering marvel.

DAFlys Posted at 4-14 23:43
I need to plant my potatoes but this might be over kill for the 20 I need to out in,   great footage and fascinating to see behind the scenes.

yea it was fun now...

but few mistakes where made on my side

Blériot53 Posted at 4-16 00:09
The precision of those machines is an engineering marvel.

yea all rtk gps etc

DowntownRDB Posted at 4-15 02:46
Great job of documenting this process.  I really like how you got so very close-up and a lot of the footage.

Yea tho I will refine it for the next time

AR Imagery Posted at 4-16 11:39
yea all rtk gps etc

My father and grandfather, who were market gardeners before, during and after WW2, would have been astounded by this level of technology

AR Imagery Posted at 4-16 11:40
Yea tho I will refine it for the next time

After all practice and lessons learned do make us better.  

Blériot53 Posted at 4-16 11:47
My father and grandfather, who were market gardeners before, during and after WW2, would have been astounded by this level of technology

yea its a simple system and works sooo well

DowntownRDB Posted at 4-17 06:11
After all practice and lessons learned do make us better.

very true...pit the brackets etc are so hard to get

Well documented.

AR Imagery Posted at 4-17 12:29
very true...pit the brackets etc are so hard to get

You might need to start making your own but then again that requires lots of equipment.  Not sure if you could 3D print something durable enough or not for that use.

Thought I might have seen Gary Lineker driving one of those tractors-great video as per usual

DowntownRDB Posted at 4-18 03:53
You might need to start making your own but then again that requires lots of equipment.  Not sure if you could 3D print something durable enough or not for that use.

have been told not too as it wont be strong enough

Codgerzh2 Posted at 4-18 07:00
Thought I might have seen Gary Lineker driving one of those tractors-great video as per usual

LOL that be fun!

BetterBizTech Posted at 4-17 17:09
Well documented.

thank you it was fun

AR Imagery Posted at 4-18 10:19
have been told not too as it wont be strong enough

I figured it might possibly not be strong enough.