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Transferred from Buckland Station, this deluxe press cut the apples into small chunks, then extracted the juice from the apples and separated it into a holding barrel for fresh, sweet apple cider everytime.
Loads 5-600 pounds of hay at a time.
As the horses pulled and the farmer guided the Digger, the big blade scooped up the potatoes from under the earth. The rake/grill shook the dirt off the potatoes and then the vegetables fell off the back, into a scooper out of the way. The mechanism hanging down in the middle of the machine is a depth gauge.
Known in these parts as a Mormon Scraper, apparently the westbound pioneers of the LDS church devised this design in the mid-1800s for moving small amounts of dirt. One or two horses were hooked up to the front of the equipment while a farmer steered from behind. The entourage plodded along while the sleek edge of the machine scraped the ground. When the bucket was full, the piece was reclined back so as not to scrape up any more dirt.
