Commercial harvesting is typically done with large potato harvesters, which scoop up the plant and surrounding earth.

Potato harvesters are machines that harvest potatoes.

Another was "Meditation", showing the bust from Le Bozec's original work, The Potato Harvester.

He was stooped like a potato harvester, probing the earth gently, and the sweat had soaked through the back of his khaki shirt in a long dark stain.

Modern potato farmers often mount a haulm topper on the front of the tractor and have a trailed potato harvester towed behind the tractor.

While Monck went to the South Kent School on Ice Hockey and Crew scholarships, he became more interested in welding and machinery, designing a potato harvester that he sold to McCormick.