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chamookman:
Way cool Bud !  (=) Bob

bjrogg:
Thank Bob

It’s been a really nice fall here. The colors were really good and they still are holding on better than expected. It has been windy and we did lose some color but still a very beautiful fall.

The permanent pile harvest of sugar beet began 10-27 with perfect conditions for both harvesting and storing sugar beets.

We started in the field we had dug three early digs from. It was 130 acres and we had harvested 105 acres early dig.

We dug the remaining 25 acres and then move to our field right across the railroad tracks from the piling grounds.

Then we dug another 27 acres. A very good first day.

Bjrogg

bjrogg:
First loads of permanent piles waiting to be harvested

Bjrogg

bjrogg:
The trucks take the sugar beets to piling grounds. They unload them into the piler . It cleans dirt and rocks from the beets and piles them on big piles.

Then the trucks take the dirt and rocks (tare) back to the field.

Here’s the Mac we painted Green. It was always called the Red Mac. We thought about new names and nobody liked  Kermit except me.

Threw around a couple that didn’t stick.

Then accidentally called it “Red Green”.

That stuck

Here’s Red Green dumping tare in field.

Bjrogg

PS “keep your stick on the ice”

bjrogg:
We had really good beets again. We were a bit lucky and we also did a few things right. We had good tons and sugar.

We kept the trucks very busy. We dug and delivered over 2,000 tons four days in a row. I have dug more acres in a day but that’s pushing our tons delivered to the record high area.

Here we have two cart loads ready to fill the truck as soon as it arrives.

The first cart dumps its beets and then hurries to the beet digger to get reloaded. The second cart dumps its beets and finishes filling the truck as I start refilling the first cart

Bjrogg

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