Tractors at Work

Majorman · Jul 8, 2023

Sugar beet harvesting in Norfolk in the 1980's

Sugar beet Harvesting 1980

caterpillar guy · Jul 8, 2023

That sure looks different than the way it is done here. In the US the defoliator goes on a separate tractor topping as many as 8 rows maybe even more in some areas. And the harvester is on a tractor digging as many as 6or 8 rows and a few dig 12 rows at a time. Biggest problem here is not working in the mud about that time of the fall. Seemed every year when I was involved in beets it was a wet muddy season. We would cut the lifter wheels and mechanism out from under the old JD 223 harvesters to make buggies to haul from the digger to the truck. This was back in the early /mid 1980's. Now some of them use a cart with about a semi load in and dump on the headland to load trucks with what they call a mouse. Loads over the ditch to trucks on the road. Trucks never see the field.

Blackhole49 · Jul 8, 2023

Is that a mower on the front of the harvester tractor to cut the tops?

Tractors at Work

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