jcb4cxkid Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 no way stop posting i love your pics i uselessly take time to go through your topics to see whats happing in eroupe because its so much differnt to over here bigger machines and bigger fields and lots more to see over there :o :) . magnificent photos as usall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratholderen Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 : my opinion is that you have to keep on, there is a lot of pics from U.K. Australia and other contries. So let´s see some pics from your area too. I put also pics from DK in my topic ratholderen on job :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 continuing my way back home another seet of beet harvesters was found also travelling ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 It gets harder and harder to pick a favourite each time you post!! Some beautied in there, especially with the low evening sun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMB Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 a few miles ahead, I found my fifth and final (sugar) beet harvesting-scene of the day just before sun-set: this time a blue New Holland fitted with dual main wheels plus GILLES front topper and lifting section: So the mower header is removing the leafy part and the cultivator is pulling the roots up to the surface for the harvester? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 shall I continue posting at all? There some more 100 pictures waiting, but I can see that pictures in this topic and my two "sister-topics" receive just 1 to maximum 7 views in average? Are the implements not interesting enough? Not old enough? Not big enough? Unknown in the UK and therefore not relevant? Or too common and usual? or is it that this forum is mostly dedicated to modell farming and therefore live farming pictures naturally receive lower attention? Or must I use photobucket (but how to use this tool, what is this at all, how does it work ...). Any feedback welcome! Well I am not annoyed if nobody looks at my pics but of course it makes no sense to keep on posting for a handful of always the same people (my personal "fan club" ;-))) Yes please continue to post RDF but with photobucket..... your pictures in another post looked so much better using PB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 16, 2008 Author Share Posted October 16, 2008 So the mower header is removing the leafy part and the cultivator is pulling the roots up to the surface for the harvester? that's correct, although the more exact terms are: "mower header" = (front mounted) leaf topper "cultivator" = beet lifter "harvester" = tanker loader Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 16, 2008 Author Share Posted October 16, 2008 Here is a short video of the MF harvesting sugar beets: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratholderen Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 thanks for your feedback. will continue then. Where can I find the topic "ratholderen on the job" - did not find anything like that in this forum!? Anyway - back to topic: it is in general discoussion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 18, 2008 Author Share Posted October 18, 2008 back to order of things happening on October 10th: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Keep them coming RDF...lovely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 nice pics RdF, like the last one in the sunset, and thanks for the videos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
painter Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Keep posting mate,interesting to see how things are done in different countries,and the different machinery used Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Richard: The unknown crop to you is chicory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory It is however the industrial version (root chicory) and not the 'Belgian endive'. The crop is refined as it contains a lot of inulin which is a sort of starch and used in a lot of diffrent products which you might use in your every day live. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inulin Niels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 19, 2008 Author Share Posted October 19, 2008 Richard: The unknown crop to you is chicory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory It is however the industrial version (root chicory) and not the 'Belgian endive'. The crop is refined as it contains a lot of inulin which is a sort of starch and used in a lot of diffrent products which you might use in your every day live. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inulin Niels Wow, that is the information I wanted. Thank you very much. I had no idea that chicory can be harvested by beet machinery! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 The first photo of the TM115, what kind of speed would you guess him to be doing if you can guess? It is a great photo to catch it so still but yet it shows he was moving quite quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 The first photo of the TM115, what kind of speed would you guess him to be doing if you can guess? It is a great photo to catch it so still but yet it shows he was moving quite quickly. well I think the speed was not more than seven miles per hours, as I could easily overtake him when running (I think I am jogging a few miles during the longer day trips on the fields for getting the right light and angles for my pictures ...). I think however, that the speed shown on the photo is not overaggerated, as the darker light after sunset automatically makes up for longer shutter-speeds and more time of the turning wheels and blown debris of the topped leaves is spend during the ovening time of the lens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Wow, that is the information I wanted. Thank you very much. I had no idea that chicory can be harvested by beet machinery! Harvesting cichory does require some changes on your beet harvester. The roots are, as you have probably seen for yourself longer and thinner so most contractors replace their 'cyclones' (the spinning disc's that transport the beet through the machine) and also the guards at the side are changed so the thin roots can't slip through as easily. You also have to set up your lifting gear a lot deeper to get them all important roots complete with ends gathered as that is (just as with beet) the place where most of the inulin is gathered. It also saves you from getting a lot of volunteer plants the following year as they can be a real pain in the ass when growing potatoes for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share Posted October 21, 2008 Harvesting cichory does require some changes on your beet harvester. The roots are, as you have probably seen for yourself longer and thinner so most contractors replace their 'cyclones' (the spinning disc's that transport the beet through the machine) and also the guards at the side are changed so the thin roots can't slip through as easily. You also have to set up your lifting gear a lot deeper to get them all important roots complete with ends gathered as that is (just as with beet) the place where most of the inulin is gathered. It also saves you from getting a lot of volunteer plants the following year as they can be a real pain in the ass when growing potatoes for example. Hi, thanks for this additional information. Very welcome! Back to topic: Operating alongside the blue New Holland and deWulf Sugar beet harvesting team was this self-propelleled AMAC potato harvester. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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1/32collector Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 great pictures, that's a good size trailer there.we dont see that size of beet harvester over here and come to think of it i dont see too many trailers that size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Look at that Dezeure trailer :o It's massive and yet it doesn't sink?!! Something we needed on maize this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 22, 2008 Author Share Posted October 22, 2008 Look at that Dezeure trailer :o It's massive and yet it doesn't sink?!! Something we needed on maize this year I think, sinking is not that much a problem over here in the region between Wallonie and lower Rhine area - thanks to a more continental climat we have less precipation than possible on the British islands, and not that often so muddy working conditions. However, you can often see literally nothing happining on the fields over here after a rainy period. If work permits, most farmers wait until the soil is almost dry again and than this heavy soil over hear becomes hard as concrete, so no risk of sinking ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Richard de Florennes Posted October 25, 2008 Author Share Posted October 25, 2008 due to the success of finding such a vast amount of very interesting machinery in a rather small area, I repeated the journey two days later. It was a sunny Sunday, but when arriving back in the region after the 1 hours journey all fields were found empty when beginning with my "seek-and-destroy" mission first. I already thought there might be a law or rule in Belgium, prohibiting any farming operations on Sunday, or it might be a cultural particularity in Belgium that even farmers regard Sundays as strict family and leasure days. And although I regarded this theories as very unlikely, I was very happy to find this trio of tractors operating on one field, seeding wheat with another old vehicle parked with a seed trailer ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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