Posted by Allan In NE on January 25, 2008 at 15:49:36 from (148.78.243.26):
In Reply to: Re: Hey Allan in NE posted by Cmore on January 25, 2008 at 14:38:52:
The "topper" rides the row of beets on a shoe, not unlike the shoe on a haybine.
Directly behind the shoe is a spinning sererated disc/knife that slices the tops off at the crown. On the backside of it's "hub" is a machinacal slinger (kind of a miniture pickup on it's side) that grabs the tops and throws them back under the belly of the tractor to the left side.
Two digger knives are right behind the topper and they are positioned between two rolling coulters. The beets are lifted by brute force of forward motion ot the knives and are pushed back and up on the kicker bed. This bed is a series of rotating sprokets (for lack of a better term) that jostle and shake the dirt from the beets.
The rearward motion of the kickers work the beets back into the elevator, which then lifts 'em up and into the trailing cart.
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