GRIMME has launched a robust sugar beet cleaner/loader that is ideally suited for medium to heavy soils, or where there is a lot of haulm.
The machine is based on technology taken from the company’s Maxtron and Rootster sugar beet harvesters, which has been incorporated in to its existing 15t capacity RH24-60 potato receiving hopper by adding a cleaning table to the end along with an extra thick yellow canvas bunker floor for additional strength to cope with a 50-70t/hr output.
The cleaning table’s six hydraulically driven duplex rollers are fitted to shafts mounted onto a scissor action mechanism. This gives the operator the ability to vary the speed of each roller independently and to open and close the spacing between them, maximising cleaning options.
Below the cleaning table is an extra wide soil conveyor that moves parallel to the roller shafts to keep the width constant. Waste is removed to either side, while the end-mounted crop conveyor discharges the crop in either direction into the loading elevator.
The new cleaner loader will be available for the 2009/10 campaign.
For more information contact the Grimme UK Sales Department on 01205 822304.
