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Posted by Allan in NE on January 17, 2005 at 10:31:03 from (148.63.132.164):
In Reply to: Re: Beatin' A Dead Horse....... posted by SuperCmore on January 17, 2005 at 09:35:43:
Hi ya Cmore, The big thing about beets is the tare (dirt, tiny beets & excess tops) 'cause when you got 'em to the dump, the machine there would load you back all the dirt you had hauled in and would only pay you for the beets and their sugar content. That's why these machines were so great and they used every single power source on the tractor. The hydraulics, the pulley drive, the PTO and the transmission, of course. That front "foot" bent the top over & adjusted the knife height, the spinning blade would slice the top off, then a rotating "flinger", which had small 'rake-like' teeth would grab that beet-top and pitch it out under the left side of the tractor. Behind that, two long "diggers" would lift the beet out of the ground and the forward motion of the tractor would lift the beet up and onto the kicker bed, which was a series of rotating wheels that shook & pulled all the dirt off the beet. At that point they were fed back into that elevator, which lifted 'em and threw 'em back into that tank. I can still hear those beets hitting that empty tank to this day. :>) The darned things are heavy too. We always filled those old 1 1/2 ton trucks with about 8 tons. They just 'moaned' the load to the dump. Our place is 4 miles from the beet dump and that little H with this one row topper and pulling in low gear, needed at least three trucks to keep up with it. Nowadays farmers top and pull 8 rows at a pop and load into semi trucks. Allan
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