Posted by Bob Bancroft on December 07, 2012 at 12:21:20 from (97.73.64.145):
In Reply to: Sugar beet harvesting posted by Russ from MN on December 07, 2012 at 06:03:48:
Another memory creeps back up from my youth. Pepsico built a multi million dollar plant here in central NY for the processing of sugar beets. I'm sure they got tax breaks, incentives, etc. But they still had to spend millions building a HUGE facility on the NY barge canal, next to the NYS thruway, with multiple rail sidings, near to the main NY central lines. But not much thought was given to our rolling, stony, hard ground! We've got a little of everything for soil, but VERY little flat, stone free ground. It only lasted a couple years. I recall riding on a new JD harvester, pulled behind a new 4020. It was stopped more than it was going. I learned later, reading an operators manual, what the driver hadn't- how to get out of park on a hill. He fought with that for quite a while! Interesting what a kid remembers! The "topper" was mounted under the belly of the tractor, and topped the two rows that the harvester then tried to pluck from the ground. Everyone altered their truck tailgates so they could dump. For years afterward you could see the big harvesters setting in hedgerows.
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