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Lift fodder beet with a grain bucket

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
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.
 
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

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cotswolds
there is one of these in Northumberland
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Wolds Beef

Member
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
 

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