Farming action in the Lower Rhine Plain (Germany)

[Richard de Florennes]

when returning to this field after a fast dinner at home one hour later, complete darkeness had settled, but the moon is visible on some of the following pictures ... hence, luckily some lorries had arrived and action began a few minutes after my arrival on the field:

[MPR Models]

Wow!! the Ropa is a monster :o And the pictures are well taken as always

[Richard de Florennes]

[Richard de Florennes]

[BC]

when returning to this field after a fast dinner at home one hour later, complete darkeness had settled, but the moon is visible on some of the following pictures ... hence, luckily some lorries had arrived and action began a few minutes after my arrival on the field:

My you are keen  ;D

[Richard de Florennes]

driving over the dry and flat areas of the harvested field parts allowed for directing the car's light directly on the harvesters which resulted in the following:

[Richard de Florennes]

[Richard de Florennes]

[Richard de Florennes]

and my final one from Wednesday night:

[Rhysmassey135]

wow  some nice looking kit in those pictures 

[Richard de Florennes]

as the night shots did not seem to arouse overhelming reactions in this forum, back to normal lighting conditions then. Seen yesterday was this Fendt with ASA carrot harvester:

[Richard de Florennes]

[Richard de Florennes]

[Richard de Florennes]

unreachable by car and therefore a long shot only (I would have taken the long walk by feed if there was a more interesting harvester behind the nice Massey tractor, but it seems all farmers in our region either use these trailed grimme bunker harvesters of the 150 line or Wühlmaus/WM harvesters. Have only seen few loader harvesters so far ...

[Richard de Florennes]

On the good side, the only large-scale user of modern MF tractors in our vincity had parked his whole tractor equipment on the field:

[Richard de Florennes]

sometimes the big beet harvesters are only called for cleaning the head lands and the first six outer rows of the field in order to make harvest for the smaller trailed harvesters (with the harvesting section offset to the side of the machine) more easy - as shown in this case:

[Richard de Florennes]

In most cases however, the laborious task of harvesting the headlands is performed by the same mashine used for the whole field. In this case the small wheels of the tractor help not to damage the unharvested crops but the broad wheels of the harvester will drive right over on line of sugar beets, thus not really supporting the business ...

[Richard de Florennes]

[Richard de Florennes]

meanwhile, winter barley is being seeded on the next field ...

[Richard de Florennes]

althoug the height of the harvester's bunker of course is sufficient for loading the beets directly onto the trailer, in this case an old HOLMER cleaning loader is used for creating a cleaner load:

[Richard de Florennes]

affection for a certain tractor brand or misuse of some spare John Deere colour on this big trailer?

[Richard de Florennes]

a slightly different version of the well-known STOLL V200 series beet harvester:

[Richard de Florennes]

and the final picture before my camera refused to work due to empty batteries:

a MB trac 1000 with big rollers and a microscopic front-mounted fertilizer

[robbo]

and the final picture before my camera refused to work due to empty batteries:

a MB trac 1000 with big rollers and a microscopic front-mounted fertilizer

Great pics as always keep them coming.

I think that small spreader on the front will be for slug pellets not fertilizer

[FB]

great pics again Sascha!!, love the night ones and the root crop harvesting ones! ;D