US Small Farm Equipment Co. products

The Assisted Feed Planter allows a rider to assure that plots are planted with no skips or doubles.  It uses a carousel to deliver the seed pieces to the seed chute.  The mechanism, similar to the well-known but obsolete “Iron Age” planter used extensively across the United States, has been designed to ease maintenance.  The planter can be built either as a completely manual feed or with an automatic feed hopper.  This planter can be used for flower bulbs as well as large seeded plants like some pumpkins or trees.

The Assisted Feed Planter allows a rider to assure that plots are planted with no skips or doubles.  It uses a carousel to deliver the seed pieces to the seed chute.  The mechanism, similar to the well-known but obsolete “Iron Age” planter used extensively across the United States, has been designed to ease maintenance.  The planter can be built either as a completely manual feed or with an automatic feed hopper.  This planter can be used for flower bulbs as well as large seeded plants like some pumpkins or trees.

Our planter hitch is built so that when planting with the one-row planter, the single row unit can be mounted off center to allow the same row spacing as a two-row planter without using a second row unit.  This is an economical solution when only a small  acreage of potatoes is grown and the expense of the second row unit is hard to justify.  The standard two-row planter uses two one-row planting unit assemblies, complete with tires.

Our planter hitch is built so that when planting with the one-row planter, the single row unit can be mounted off center to allow the same row spacing as a two-row planter without using a second row unit.  This is an economical solution when only a small  acreage of potatoes is grown and the expense of the second row unit is hard to justify.  The standard two-row planter uses two one-row planting unit assemblies, complete with tires.

We have designed and built many different custom machines over the years.  Here are a few photos of some of them.  Please don’t hesitate to inform us of your needs.

The potato diggers are made to dig one row of potatoes or other root crop. The machines can be pulled on the centerline of the tractor or offset as when straddling two rows and digging one. The standard diggers return the produce onto the dug soil after shaking the bulk of the soil through the chain. The soil type and produce size dictate what pitch of chain is needed. The hydraulic drive allows better matching of chain speed with digging conditions.

A handy metal contraption to wheel between your garden beds to carry your produce boxes in.  These were originally designed and built as strawberry carts, but we’ve had customers use them for harvesting all kinds of produce. The cart’s new design has an adjustable well for a box that ranges from 11 to 22.5″ long.  The handle is 17″ tall and the cart is 9″ wide.  It uses a standard lawn mower wheel.  When shipping it seems to cost close to the same amount to ship 6 carts as it does to ship 1 or 2.  Keep that in mind when you order.

Our Plastic mulch winder is the perfect addition for your digger or other piece of equipment you already own.  It simply bolts on the back.  It is hydraulically driven with a remote flow control.

The disc-type hiller gently moves soil up to and under the potato vines to make the hill larger.  They assist in weed control by burying small weeds inaccessible to cultivators.  Earlier emergence is possible because the seed pieces can be planted shallower and then hilled up.  This reduces the incidence of greening of the tubers.

This tabletop seed cutter is small enough for easy set up, use, and storage.  The one hand operation allows the worker to pick up potatoes with one hand and operate the lever with the other hand.  It is simply clamped to a table or bench to keep it in place.  The cut seed can be caught in a small container, then dumped into a larger container or a deflector can be attached to the cutter to direct the seed to a bag, box or bucket placed alongside the table.