Posted by Wemedeeres on September 23, 2014 at 06:34:52 from (24.111.61.68):
In Reply to: Sugar beets posted by JerryS on September 22, 2014 at 08:24:07:
Weather permitting we will be starting at 12:01am next Wednesday and going 24 hrs. a day until finished or something shuts us down heat, frost and rain are usually the biggest pains. We get heat shutdowns when the internal temp of the beet cannot go above 52 degrees otherwise they wont store in the pile over winter. We get frost shutdowns when the beet cannot show any signs of being frozen which every load is spot checked when the temps at night start to get down to freezing. Rain can be a big factor simply because of all the mud on the roads and not being able to get trucks through the fields, I've even dug in snow squalls which don't happen often but it has. Lightning has been a factor in getting shutdown as well, its more for the safety of the crews at the piling sites. Those pilers make good lightning rods! And of course mechanical breakdowns occur as well.
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