Root Crop Engineering Sugar beet harvest technology

Flail-cleaning of beet crown is again an option of defoliation devices. By minimizing the scalping cut more petioles on the beet crowns remain and are delivered to the refineries rais-ing the gross tare of beets. Rotating soft flails are used to clean the crown from leaf residues. To reduce soil compaction from heavy tankers tire inflation pressure is now reduced to 140 kPa and kinematics of wheel suspension has been improved to balance wheel load. Automation of the complex machine operations serves for optimization of the machine pro-cess and relieve of operator.