Lift fodder beet with a grain bucket

[Northumberland]

Has anyone tried It?
Small amount to lift with no local contractors.
Won't matter if there is alot left behind for hoggs to clear up

 

[neilo]

You can buy buckets specially made for it, which looks like a big slatted grain bucket. If the variety is a low DM one that grows well out of the ground then you might manage it in dry soil, but otherwise you will just shear beet off at ground level I suspect.
I would imagine you’ll scrape a bit of soil up with it that can’t fallout of a grain bucket (hence the slats on the beet bucket), but maybe not an issue if you’re feeding out on grassland?

These folks make them https://www.blackrockwelding.com/
Iirc they quoted £1250 for a beet lifting bucket on merlo brackets a couple of months ago on Facebook.

 

[Northumberland]

Can't see them buckets lasting long with the amount of stone we have.
Shearing them off at ground level will be ok as long as they don't just push over into ground or lift too much soil

 

[Bob c]

there is one of these in Northumberland

 

[wr.]

A friend of mine uses a big square straw bale in his silage grab to push the beet into rows and then scoops it up with a grain bucket. We've had this little chap in today to lift what we hadn't grazed.

 

[JCB_JCR]

Have opened up a field before with dung grab. Bulldozing just off the ground and tops wedge in tines.

 

[Wolds Beef]

For mangolds years ago we used a v shape made of two sleepers and pushed them in to rows. We then hand picked them into the beet bucket of the forklift and pied them. Hard work but a covered pie would keep them all winter. we fed them to the lambing ewes to keep there milk going.
WB

 

[spin cycle]

old beet bucket probably answer

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

A friend of mine uses a big square straw bale in his silage grab to push the beet into rows and then scoops it up with a grain bucket. We've had this little chap in today to lift what we hadn't grazed.

Who's machine?

 

[MJT]

Used muck grab to lift some before Xmas, worked well but we grow beet that sticks out of the ground a lot which helps .

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Tried a grain bucket, waste of time , bought a Standon Solo beet after

 

[Jop]

I have done some with a dung grab and pushed it into heaps first and then loaded the heaps with the grain bucket. It works but wouldn’t say it was great. Worth a try

 

[neilo]

there is one of these in Northumberland

RRP on their website is £4300!

I know Cherry is well built kit, but even so… it’s just a bucket!

 

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[hollister]

RRP on their website is £4300!

I know Cherry is well built kit, but even so… it’s just a bucket!

More holes than bucket

 

[glasshouse]

More holes than bucket

To let the dirt fall through

 

[wr.]

Who's machine?

Gareth Watkins,

 

[The Son]

Gareth Watkins,

That beet harvester does some miles!