[AT] Back on farm equipment! I need help finding... formy farmingoperation

[Larry D Goss]

I grew up playing on horse-drawn farm equipment that was parked in the lane 
leading to the pasture when we visited on my grandfather's dairy farm in 
Colorado  during the summers .  There were all sorts of corn and beet 
equipment setting out in the weather.  Those old sugar beet diggers were 
pretty simple.  Basically, all they did was lift the beets out of the ground 
for manual pickup in a second pass.  The more modern one I know of is a 
mechanized piece of equipment that digs a swath about 2 feet wide and 
conveys the beets along while shaking them and then shuffles the cleaned 
beets off to the side and into a wagon.  As I remember it (I haven't seen it 
for about three years) it's about six feet wide and 20 feet long with a 
conveyor off to one side for loading into the trailer/wagon.  It's powered, 
but I can't remember if it runs off a PTO or has its own engine.  I know it 
is not self-propelled.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Walker" <alwalker at gvtel.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Back on farm equipment! I need help finding... formy 
farmingoperation


> Larry D Goss wrote:
>
>> Grant, would a sugar beet harvester work?
>
> <snip>
>
> Grant, I think Larry has the right idea.  Based on what I have seen of the 
> beet harvesters in the Red River Valley, something along those lines 
> should be ideal.  Unlike Larry, I don't know where to find one, but a one 
> or two row unit would sure seem to be worth checking into for the 
> operation you have described. Just my 2 cents.
> Al in NW MN
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