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Yes.Would it take long to lift a acre of beet by hand?
Yes.Would it take long to lift a acre of beet by hand?
I hope not
Get the kids of the ipads for a couple of hours and fill a trailer ir 2
Sorry for the smart arse answer earlier, pulling beet by hand is a bastard of a job, in a low DM variety isn't as bad but high DM/sugarbeet type varieties would brake your back and ruin your joints.Would it take long to lift a acre of beet by hand?
and we would be cursing armers nowadays!!Back in the day before before beet harvesters,it was considered a good weeks work for one man to pull top and clamp an acer of beet.
They would be thin on the ground allright!We used to have around 10 acres of sugar beet and would pull 6 drills all round by hand and then crown it into heaps and then handball into trailer. Three separate jobs. Eventually we relented and just pulled the corners. Can't imagine finding anyone to do it now.
What sort of acerage are we talking about? Age of person?How wrong you are !! Cousin of mine still does it, takes out headlands alround, opens lands up through it, even gathers the tops off the ground all by hand on his own,,!!!! "not too many calling there at this time of year":sweat:
A good block layer would handle 15 to 20 tonne a day in footings.
Very little physical labour in farming nowadays.
Fair F's to him, thats some church work, he must be as tight as a ducks ass under water?Down to about 12 acres now.. 40ts
I often pulled the soft fodder beet and it would not take too much effort, only be similar to picking potatoes. Very different pulling proper sugar beet, some of the beet would take serious effort to pull, I would rather shear sheep than pull sugar beet that was not loosened up in some way.
Contract growing of beet for fodder is becoming big business down this way. Dairy lads buying it. Works well for both tillage and dairy farmer
I hope not
Get the kids of the ipads for a couple of hours and fill a trailer ir 2
Well......
4 adults and 3 kids,1.5 ton picked, scraped and topped in 3 hours:sad2::sweat:
Usually works well until we have a short winter, next thing contract growing farmer is left with a big heap of beet. I took 4 loads of a friend down near yourself as a favour a few years ago that some goon backed out ofContract growing of beet for fodder is becoming big business down this way. Dairy lads buying it. Works well for both tillage and dairy farmer
Chop it and ensile it with the grass:Thumbp2:Usually works well until we have a short winter, next thing contract growing farmer is left with a big heap of beet. I took 4 loads of a friend down near yourself as a favour a few years ago that some goon backed out of
The flash backs are flooding back use pull the corners here too a hour a corner roughly pulled and topWe used to have around 10 acres of sugar beet and would pull 6 drills all round by hand and then crown it into heaps and then handball into trailer. Three separate jobs. Eventually we relented and just pulled the corners. Can't imagine finding anyone to do it now.
A few contract growing maize this year down here got burned, after it fell down they backed out. I'm a bit amazed how it was not all harvested before the wind. Ours was one of the last crops planted and it was mad for before the wind. They are still harvesting maize around here that was ripe 3 weeks ago.Usually works well until we have a short winter, next thing contract growing farmer is left with a big heap of beet. I took 4 loads of a friend down near yourself as a favour a few years ago that some goon backed out of