Talk:Potato harvester

What?
What is a dolmen roller? Biscuittin (talk) 11:27, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that Potato_spinner be merged into Potato_harvester. The potato spinner is obviously a type of historical potato harvester and can easily be incorporated in a history section of the harvester article.

I also propose that Haulm_topper be merged into Potato_harvester or perhaps even a rename of the harvester article to Potato Harvesting, then the harvesting article could contain sections for all of the related equipment & their histories. Appropriate redirects would bring any searches to the harvesting page.

DCwom (talk) 19:29, 23 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't agree with these proposals. Of course, all three articles are still short and pretty incomplete (like thousands of other technological articles), but that's not uncommon on Wikipedia – it needs time to let articles grow.
 * Merging doesn't make much sense here imho. Toppers and harvesters are different machines for different applications (like e.g. mowers are differrent from hay rakes, or balers). Spinners are sometimes (colloquially) called early potato harvesters, and they were important forerunners, of course, but they don't really harvest (in the sense of collecting/gathering; they only dig/throw potatoes out of the ground; the actual harvest was still done by hand). Their low grade of mechanization also let them appear pretty different compared to 20th century multifunctional (digging/cleaning/sorting/collecting) potato harvesters (like e.g. a reaper is different from a combine harvester).
 * A comprehensive or outline article about all aspects of potato harvesting would be nice, but this would need much more input than just combining parts of the three spinner/harvester/topper articles. --bdk: 21:24, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

circular lede
"Potato harvesters are machines that harvest potatoes."

Surely something better than that can be devised for the first sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:CA10:18A0:61BF:9EEF:19FD:6919 (talk) 23:50, 4 April 2019 (UTC)