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<blockquote data-quote="chaffcutter" data-source="post: 6597012" data-attributes="member: 500"><p>We used to dig with a Johnson single row, then two row, chain digger, and the b chains were always falling apart, or the slip clutches going. Hand picking by a big gang of women, who always seemed to be moaning that Dad was digging too fast. They also had a habit of filling their bags with all the best spuds every day. The worst bit was that before boxes like [USER=11870]@fermec860[/USER] with the box tipper, we handled them off the field to the clamp in hessian bags onto a trailer which we kept moving along as we picked them up. No wonder we all had bad backs!</p><p></p><p>Bulk handling and a decent elevator into store was a revelation. Having lost a whole crop in the clamps due to blight and frost in 1965, Dad went to the bank to borrow enough to build an insulated store. He got the cash, but the old and wise manager said, ‘but you do know, young man, that everyone knows that potatoes will not keep stored inside’. !!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chaffcutter, post: 6597012, member: 500"] We used to dig with a Johnson single row, then two row, chain digger, and the b chains were always falling apart, or the slip clutches going. Hand picking by a big gang of women, who always seemed to be moaning that Dad was digging too fast. They also had a habit of filling their bags with all the best spuds every day. The worst bit was that before boxes like [USER=11870]@fermec860[/USER] with the box tipper, we handled them off the field to the clamp in hessian bags onto a trailer which we kept moving along as we picked them up. No wonder we all had bad backs! Bulk handling and a decent elevator into store was a revelation. Having lost a whole crop in the clamps due to blight and frost in 1965, Dad went to the bank to borrow enough to build an insulated store. He got the cash, but the old and wise manager said, ‘but you do know, young man, that everyone knows that potatoes will not keep stored inside’. !! [/QUOTE]
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