Whew!!! Harvest is Basically Done!!!

 Here is the field where the potatoes are grown.  What you see on top of the mounds are dead vines.

Digging a hill of potatoes just to see if they are ready to be harvested.

 

Do they look okay?

The potato harvester aka: digger

The back of the digger is where the vines roll off the back and the potatoes fall through the links to a different belt that sends them up the ramp looking thing on the left side.

Here is the boom.  It loads the potatoes (and some rocks) into the trucks.

 Here is one of the trucks headed to the field.

 Another truck that has been partially loaded.   The side wall folds down so the potatoes aren't dropped to far off the digger boom.  After you get that much of the truck filled then you raise the side and fill it the rest of the way. 

 Here is a picture of how the truck and tractor come together.  Almost ready to start.

Here is the potato pit/cellar.  We back the trucks in here after they are loaded to unload and store the potatoes.

This is the piler.  The stinger is what is shifted to the right.  That is what the potatoes are unloaded onto off of the truck.  Then they go up a series of belts to form the pile.

Here is the truck dumping into the stinger.

This is the first belt after the stinger.

 This is the other end of the piler.  The very end extends in and out, left and right, and up and down.  

The pipes you see in the right hand corner are to keep air moving through and when it is time to gas them to keep sprouts from growing we can send the chemical through the pipes.  There are holes cut on both sides to let air pass through.

This is my view.  I run the controls to pile from right here and watch the pile grow and spread.