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Notes for beet harvesting
9.14 Notes for beet harvesting
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9.14.1 Practical tips
During lifting, ensure the correct soil content of the beets. A little amount of soil (soil
content around 10-15%) protects the beets during loading. If the soil content is too
high, the beets cannot be loaded so quickly.
If sugar beets are loaded immediately after lifting they should be cleaned as much as
possible by the beet harvester. If freshly lifted beets are cleaned at loading this will
more often cause damage to the beet body than with beets deposited for a while.
In case of very light soil, which can easily be strained, you should include a low
soil content in the beet pile during harvesting. This soil content has a certain damp-
ing effect during loading, which largely protects the beets from damage, but can be
removed without any problem by ROPA cleaner-loaders.
A large amount of soil will generally still stick to the beets, particularly with sticky
soil, in spite of thorough cleaning. These sugar beets should be deposited in piles
for at least 3-5 days before loading and 'kept dry' during this period. In case of moist
weather, cover these piles if possible, so that soil residues will start to dry off. Dried
soil has a certain damping effect during loading, but can also be excellently cleaned
off with the machine.
In case of very difficult ground conditions, an optimal cleaning effect may only be
achieved if the beets are deposited in piles for at least 5-7 days and are 'kept dry' dur-
ing this period. The same holds true if the soil content is sticking very much to the beet
body after lifting. For these beets, you will only achieve a high throughput during load-
ing and beet-sparing loading if the soil content has started to dry on the beet body.
Lay out a beet pile on ground that is as dry and free of tracks as possible. The ground
should be as free as possible of foreign bodies like stones, wooden parts, etc.
If the estimated soil content of a pile is 25% or greater the pile height should not
exceed two meters, if possible. For this pile height, you will achieve high throughput
with simultaneous optimum distribution of soil cleaned off during loading. Long and low
piles can usually be loaded faster than short and high ones.
Take note of our plans for depositing piles. Keep the required clearance to the trans-
port path.
Make sure that the maximum pickup width does not exceed 10.20 metres.
Loading is usually performed to the right (less time required for folding in and out).
Please consider this when making the pile. Due to the technologically mature engi-
neering of the machine loading to the left is also possible with the same throughput
and the same quality.
Even surface under the pile is very important for the best operation of the loader. It
is not possible to work with low losses if ground under the pile is not even and level.
Avoid deep ruts under the beet pile.
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