Beet Harvest Trucks

lamm · 01-23-2011, 01:39 PM

Im just wondering if farms in Minnesota and the Dakota's hire out trucks to help with the beet harvest. Im looking to get hooked up with a operation. I currently have a truck setup with a 22' silage box. Im looking for additional work after corn silage is done. Im also wondering if that kind of box would work at the piler? Any information would be helpful thanks!

nar · 01-24-2011, 01:00 AM

You might not find them on here but I know some of them do. There are trucks hired in every beet harvest area, never enough trucks to keep up once it gets muddy or the line at the piler gets longer. If you can haul silage then your box should work fine. Regular endgate, hydraulic endgate, or even chain floor, they all haul beets fine. Chain floor might need the slow speed sprocket if no variable speed valve.

b575 · 01-25-2011, 10:50 PM

Not a beet farmer, but live 7 miles south of souther minnesota beet suger cooperative.....

Might wanna check their websight out.

leon · 04-02-2011, 01:57 PM

Greetings and salutations fellow board members,

Its been many moons since I posted,
as I have been invovled in finishing up
my sugarbeet cleaning method patent
and my snow blower patent.

Thinking out loud here:

With all haulage going on over the
highways for the harvesting and slicing
campaigns would it simplify things if
the larger articulated off the road
haulers were used to transfer the beets to
the remote piling stations?

At 25 and 35 tons a whack for payload
and 4 or six wheel drive power train
and 35 miles per hour speeds it seems
like a viable option.

The only difficulty is machine width in thier
current form as they are wider than the stadard
lane width on both sides of the border.

Just a thought on a dry saturday afternoon.

wafarmer · 08-24-2011, 04:57 PM

You can already haul 25-35 tons a load at 70mph with the trucks already in use. Plus, they are road legal. No matter what you build it has to conform to legal road limitations on weight and size. As for muddy fields, park the trucks on the edge, and use dump carts and tractors
to haul to the landing.

dirtfarmer07 · 08-24-2011, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wafarmer

You can already haul 25-35 tons a load at 70mph with the trucks already in use. Plus, they are road legal. No matter what you build it has to conform to legal road limitations on weight and size. As for muddy fields, park the trucks on the edge, and use dump carts and tractors
to haul to the landing.

Try to get on the potato harvest around Park Rapids, MN or other places

goldie · 02-10-2012, 10:29 AM

well if you wanna drive down to nebraska i will put you to work duriing beet harvest this year lol a ways away but we cant ever seem to find enough trucks

i realize this thread is almost dead but oh well lets bring it back to life

heres my beet haulin rig

hulless · 02-10-2012, 12:16 PM

I know a few guys in southern Alberta that run custom beet trucks but you are many miles from there!

morb1lee · 02-10-2012, 12:35 PM

If you want it "beet" the crap of go for it. Beet season is hard on trucks...but not much isn't. I'd second for potatos. Walsh county in Nd is full of them.

jdboy · 02-10-2012, 06:47 PM

Since the new style website, I have not been able to load pictures, but google or Utube this bit of kit, Ropa Euro Maus beet loader. Ive been running one all winter in the UK and its the tool for the job. not having to run trucks in the field, keep them on the road and the Maus loads from the field, go check it out

01-23-2011, 01:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
lamm Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 6	Beet Harvest Trucks Im just wondering if farms in Minnesota and the Dakota's hire out trucks to help with the beet harvest. Im looking to get hooked up with a operation. I currently have a truck setup with a 22' silage box. Im looking for additional work after corn silage is done. Im also wondering if that kind of box would work at the piler? Any information would be helpful thanks!

04-02-2011, 01:57 PM	#4 (permalink)
leon Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 11	beet root haulage both overland and roadway Greetings and salutations fellow board members, Its been many moons since I posted, as I have been invovled in finishing up my sugarbeet cleaning method patent and my snow blower patent. Thinking out loud here: With all haulage going on over the highways for the harvesting and slicing campaigns would it simplify things if the larger articulated off the road haulers were used to transfer the beets to the remote piling stations? At 25 and 35 tons a whack for payload and 4 or six wheel drive power train and 35 miles per hour speeds it seems like a viable option. The only difficulty is machine width in thier current form as they are wider than the stadard lane width on both sides of the border. Just a thought on a dry saturday afternoon.

01-24-2011, 01:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
nar Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 322	You might not find them on here but I know some of them do. There are trucks hired in every beet harvest area, never enough trucks to keep up once it gets muddy or the line at the piler gets longer. If you can haul silage then your box should work fine. Regular endgate, hydraulic endgate, or even chain floor, they all haul beets fine. Chain floor might need the slow speed sprocket if no variable speed valve.

01-25-2011, 10:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
b575 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 691	Not a beet farmer, but live 7 miles south of souther minnesota beet suger cooperative..... Might wanna check their websight out.

08-24-2011, 04:57 PM	#5 (permalink)
wafarmer Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 214	You can already haul 25-35 tons a load at 70mph with the trucks already in use. Plus, they are road legal. No matter what you build it has to conform to legal road limitations on weight and size. As for muddy fields, park the trucks on the edge, and use dump carts and tractors to haul to the landing.

02-10-2012, 10:29 AM	#7 (permalink)
goldie Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Scottsbluff ,Ne Posts: 87	well if you wanna drive down to nebraska i will put you to work duriing beet harvest this year lol a ways away but we cant ever seem to find enough trucks i realize this thread is almost dead but oh well lets bring it back to life heres my beet haulin rig

02-10-2012, 12:16 PM	#8 (permalink)
hulless Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Canora, SK Posts: 82	I know a few guys in southern Alberta that run custom beet trucks but you are many miles from there!

02-10-2012, 12:35 PM	#9 (permalink)
morb1lee Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 98	If you want it "beet" the crap of go for it. Beet season is hard on trucks...but not much isn't. I'd second for potatos. Walsh county in Nd is full of them.

02-10-2012, 06:47 PM	#10 (permalink)
jdboy Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,020	Since the new style website, I have not been able to load pictures, but google or Utube this bit of kit, Ropa Euro Maus beet loader. Ive been running one all winter in the UK and its the tool for the job. not having to run trucks in the field, keep them on the road and the Maus loads from the field, go check it out

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