Original Operating Manual - ROPA Fahrzeug

9 Schedules and Tables/Plans and Diagrams/Maintenance Slips
9.12 Remarks on beet harvest
Chapter 9
Schedules and Tables/Plans and Diagrams/
Maintenance Slips
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9.12.1 Practical hints
During lifting, ensure the correct soil content of the beets. A little soil (soil content around
10-15%) protects the beets during loading. If the soil content is too high the beets cannot
be loaded as quickly.
If sugar beets are loaded immediately after lifting, then they should be cleaned as much
as possible by the beet lifter. If freshly lifted beets are cleaned during loading, then this
will lead to increased damage to the beet body in contrast to beets that been deposited
for a while.
In case of very light soil, which can easily be strained, you should include a low soil
content in the beet pile at lifting. This soil content has a certain damping effect during
loading, which largely protects the beets from damage, but which can be removed
without any problem by euro-Maus4.
Especially in case of sticky soil, after lifting – in spite of good cleaning – usually a large
soil content is still sticking to the beets. These sugar beets should be deposited in piles
for at least 3-5 days before loading and kept dry during this period. In case of moist
weather, cover these piles, if possible, so that soil residue will start to dry off. Dried soil
has a certain damping effect during loading, but can also be excellently cleaned off using
euro-Maus4.
In case of very difficult ground conditions, an optimal cleaning effect may only be
achieved if the beets are deposited in piles for at least 5-7 days and are kept dry during
this period. The same holds true if the soil content is sticking very much to the beet body
after lifting. For these beets, you will only achieve a high throughput during loading and
beet-sparing loading if the soil content has started to dry on the beet body.
Only erect beet piles on dry and track-free soil, if possible. The ground should be as free
as possible of foreign bodies like stones, wooden parts, etc.
If the estimated soil content of a pile is at 25% or greater, then the pile height should not
exceed two meters, if possible. For this pile height, you will achieve high throughput with
simultaneous optimum distribution of soil cleaned off during loading. Long and low piles
can usually be loaded quicker than short and high ones.
Take note of our plans for erecting piles. In any case, comply with the distance to the
transport path.
Make sure that the pile width in no case exceeds eight meters.
Loading is usually performed to the right (reduced time expenditure during swing-in and
swing-out). Please consider this when erecting the pile. Due to technologically mature
engineering of euro-Maus4, loading to the left is also possible, with the same throughput
and the same quality.
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