Triple-Up Beet Cart Holds 15 Tons

Triple-Up Beet Cart Holds 15 Tons WAGONS/TRAILERS Conversions 19-2-8 If you raise beets, you'll be interested in this triple-up beet cart Fred Gibbs built to speed up his harvest. "With three discharge elevators, we can unload 15 tons of beets in less than 2 minutes and have the truck back on its way to the pile," says the Greeley, Colo., grower. "This is the only triple discharge cart I've ever seen." Gibbs made the cart out of three Hesston 565 beet carts that he welded together front to back and reinforced with steel off of other carts. He removed the set of wheels on the front cart so he could maneuver in the field. "You can turn at the end of the field very nicely," he says. The completed cart has three separate compartments that hold 5 tons of beets apiece. That can be a big plus as compared to having one big compartment on commercial 15- to 20-ton carts, Gibbs says. "If a chain breaks on the discharge of one of those big carts, there you sit with an awful lot of beets to throw off by hand," he says. "This way, if a chain breaks, you've still got two discharges operating and only a third of the beets to unload manually." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Fred Gibbs, 1001 "0" St., Greeley, Colo. 80631 (ph 303 356-7090).

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