Now, That's a bucket, ??

[James Joe Dewar]

I guess sugar beet is fairly light, ?

Regards

Joe.

 

[Tractorman810]

Doubt our old jcb3c would have handles a bucket that size when doing beet😂😂😂 goes to prove  what those artic handlers will lift mind , as i always remember beet being an pretty heavy crop when handling it 

[James Joe Dewar]

Just looked, the Volvo L180H weighs 28 tonn, and can lift 8.7 tonn.

Regards

Joe.

[smithy]

Beet are heavy in a normal bucket , if them buckets are not loaded evenly they will twist so need a experienced driver on them ,yes they heap up with them but they push beet into a water channel built into the flat-pads and water transport beet into factory , my local factory at Bury St Edmunds are slicing about 15,000 tonnes a day so need big buckets to keep pushing into water flumes    

[James Joe Dewar]

There used to be an awful lot of sugar beet harvested about twenty miles from me, But I guess when the rail roads closed in the 70's that would kill off the industry, All that's left these days is one of the old silo's in The Tradeing Estate in Cupar, (Cooper) in Fife,

Regards

Joe.

[CX820Joe]

It’s usually the closing of the local factory which sees the crop disappear - I see the Coupar one closed on economic grounds in 1971.  The Shropshire (Allscott) factory closed around 2003 and that saw sugar beet all but disappear but a few farms still grow it and have it taken to Newark, with others growing it for fodder as well.   I think the Allscott factory was rail served but I don’t know when they ceased moving it by train.  It used to be a big part of the Irish state railways freight business moving beet but I think that ceased some years ago too. 

[SPN]

I remember a local beet haulier (and tillage farmer) bought the first FIECO cabbed 7600 I remember seeing back in the day. It had a front loader and was used to lift the beet from the heaps into the Armor Salmon cleaner loader.

Big bucket on the front, big counter weight on the back, rutted ground frozen solid, an unsympathetic tractor driver = tractor split in half at the bell housing.

[Tractorman810]

5 hours ago, smithy said:

Beet are heavy in a normal bucket , if them buckets are not loaded evenly they will twist so need a experienced driver on them ,yes they heap up with them but they push beet into a water channel built into the flat-pads and water transport beet into factory , my local factory at Bury St Edmunds are slicing about 15,000 tonnes a day so need big buckets to keep pushing into water flumes    

not been in bury for ages now, did go in a fair bit as a kid during the lifting season  when we would take our own in with the leyland constructer tipper , just before we gave up doing beet it was easier to let a contractor and artic take it, just meant it sat on our muck heap pad a bit longer thats all . just put some bales between it and the muck.

[James Joe Dewar]

I meant to post this earlier but forgot, This is a really big bucket, 24 feet wide and carries 72 ton,?? it also has the biggest tyres in the World weighing 7.5 ton each,30 ton of rubber on the LeTourneau L2350 now owned by Komatsu operating weight 260 ton.

Regards

Joe.