Tractorman810 Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 oh deere looks like i am going to have to enter at this rate, :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogreengelb Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 ah but i have no spud boxes ,ect either mate, if i can get one of reds beet harvestors i would enter, but that poor whalmus would look very lonly emptying into nothing eh :D :D i am fully geared to arable and pigs at min on layout, and beet hopefully in the future The real boys in lincolnshire were,nt using many spud boxes this year mostly going straight into trailers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewHolland2 Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 oh deere looks like i am going to have to enter at this rate, :D :D Only a suggestion mate...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB Posted October 26, 2006 Author Share Posted October 26, 2006 a lot of the harvesting i've seen have been using trailers and not boxes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 aw stop it, i haven't made that fergy spud harvestor yet, was thinking about having one field as a small spud one for the layout anyway, but harvested in the 70's/80's way, theres no way i could do/make one that quick i dont think at present Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I don't know of any farmers who unload into spud boxes around here... it's all trailers around our way \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewHolland2 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I don't know of any farmers who unload into spud boxes around here... it's all trailers around our way \ You'll have to come up here and see some real tattie boxes in action Marky...... I think I'm going to set up a diaroma of tattie harvesting with earth and foliage this Sunday and get plenty of pics...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB Posted October 27, 2006 Author Share Posted October 27, 2006 You'll have to come up here and see some real tattie boxes in action Marky...... I think I'm going to set up a diaroma of tattie harvesting with earth and foliage this Sunday and get plenty of pics...... cant wait....not long until it starts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 cant wait....not long until it starts Yer same here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 ah but i have no spud boxes ,ect either mate, if i can get one of reds beet harvestors i would enter, but that poor whalmus would look very lonly emptying into nothing eh :D :D i am fully geared to arable and pigs at min on layout, and beet hopefully in the future you couldn't unload awhalmus into boxes anyway as it's a bunker harvester , the bruising & damage to the potatoes would be too great, there are still hundreds of acres all don in bulk sean , tipped into sheds & then loaded into bulk conveyor trailers , no boxes at all . being a bunker harvester you don't need two tractors hauling either , just drop a trailer at the headland & take the loaded one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB Posted October 27, 2006 Author Share Posted October 27, 2006 so what eras' then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 certainly not the 70's / 80's i am after is it fb, did a test plant on the field board today with the old britains spud planter, and it makes some lovly furrows in that compost ,so if i can get the harvestor buoilt then i may well enter after all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 you couldn't unload awhalmus into boxes anyway as it's a bunker harvester , the bruising & damage to the potatoes would be too great, there are still hundreds of acres all don in bulk sean , tipped into sheds & then loaded into bulk conveyor trailers , no boxes at all . being a bunker harvester you don't need two tractors hauling either , just drop a trailer at the headland & take the loaded one If the digger was fitted with a shoot and the boxes were all in a line then you could just pull up next to the line and fill each box then cart them away on a flat deck like people that grow table spuds in NZ do. The spud digger at work fills a trailer then when the trailer is full you run it back to the yard and unload it into boxes.The problem is that most of the table spud buyers don?t want to buy in bulk so you need to have 50 or so boxes on hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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