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Our greatest interest within crop farming is to grow sugarbeets, that?s why we want to
write about something new in this sector. We heard that a new concept had come to
Sweden so we wanted to find out everything about this machine.
This new technique was a self-propelled cleaning loader for sugarbeets. This machine is
supposed to replace a loader and a cleaning machine when the sugarbeets is going to be
loaded, cleaned and delivered to the sugerbeet factory. The cleaning loader picks up the
sugarbeets with rollers from the pile, which is placed close to the road. The machine
cleans with steel rollers and loads the sugarbeets into the truck with a conveyor, which is
able to turn around both sides of the machine.
We have done some field studies that includes some experiments and observations. In the
experiment we have come to a result concerning the loss of sugarbeets behind the
machine. We have been following the Ropa Maus for about five days during the
campaign 2003, so that we have a clue about how this machine works in reality. We put
together some questions that we distributed to the growers, truck drivers and the driver of
the cleaning loader to gather some information from all the involved parts.
To get the whole economical aspect have we done some calculations of the costs on both
the cleaning loader and the cleaning machine with a loader. After that we got information
about the price of loading and cleaning, we could come to a final result.
To be able to invest in a self-propelled cleaning loader you need to have 60 000 ton of
sugarbeets to make a profit. This is a result of ours calculations and diagrams.
The loss after Ropa Maus cleaning loader was 1.076 % after our own trial.
A good thing about Ropa Maus cleaning loader is that the pressure on the soil, where the
pile of sugarbeets have been located, is further less than loading with cleaning machine
and a loader.