Sugar Beet with GAC Farming & Contracts

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  • Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
  • A couple weeks ago we visited GAC Farming & Contracting with the Fastrac and Smyth Trailer to join in with their Sugar Beet Harvest!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 26

  • @jamesbyrne5734
    @jamesbyrne5734 3 роки тому +1

    Great video . Machine has come a long way . I Grew up on a small farm and my father fed beet to his cattle . We sewed it with a single row cast iron originally horse drawn seeder pulled with a Ferguson 20 TVO . We thinned them out a month or two later on hands and knees . Harvest them by hand ringing the leaves off to cover the piles of beet until they were brought to the yard . Loaded by hand ✋🏻 Pulped into chip shapes every evening in a hand turned pulper to feed the cattle . Wishing my father was alive to see this equipment. 🤗

  • @gerryoconnor8751
    @gerryoconnor8751 3 роки тому

    My God the changes I have seen in my lifetime. Pulling beet by hand, and coming home from school and Pulping fodder beet and turnips for cows and cattle and carrying it 5 gallon oil drums to stock all over the place 😀

  • @jascollinscork
    @jascollinscork 3 роки тому +2

    Nice video for a change!!! A falla in KK has one if these harvesters!! Fantastic washer!!

  • @smokeybear69
    @smokeybear69 3 роки тому +3

    Great vid, really interesting to hear about the beet. 🤘🏻

  • @Paulo660
    @Paulo660 3 роки тому

    Nice video again.

  • @joelgibson4750
    @joelgibson4750 3 роки тому +2

    The sugar beet makes my dairy cows dance all over the shed

  • @1robje
    @1robje 3 роки тому

    The harvester is a Frans vervaet, a Dutch beet harvester manufacturer, they also make manure 3 and 5 wheel trikes

  • @ilovesilage1234
    @ilovesilage1234 3 роки тому

    Awesome video

  • @stephenross1581
    @stephenross1581 3 роки тому +14

    I still wonder how road legal the smiths trailer is, surly it’s over the legal weight limit or is it different in Ireland ??

    • @johnwakley7165
      @johnwakley7165 2 роки тому +1

      Sad fact is that slurrykat in the video with the smyth is probably overweight as well 🙁

  • @SimonKL11
    @SimonKL11 3 роки тому

    Nice interview, beet harvest looks interesting😉👍

  • @chriswilloughby5295
    @chriswilloughby5295 3 роки тому

    Looks good

  • @lukeculwick3390
    @lukeculwick3390 3 роки тому +3

    I recognise that beet harvester anyone know when and where they got it from. I think it might be my dad's uncles old one.

    • @gameplayboy-sn2cx
      @gameplayboy-sn2cx 3 роки тому +1

      My dad works for ivan magaw 😂

    • @lukeculwick3390
      @lukeculwick3390 3 роки тому +1

      @@gameplayboy-sn2cx no way would you be able to find out so I can prove my dad wrong🤣

  • @lukenicholl7746
    @lukenicholl7746 3 роки тому +1

    Is that monbrief east road

  • @cyprianofcarthage6890
    @cyprianofcarthage6890 3 роки тому

    My family is a sugarbeet farm up where Canada and Michigan meet

  • @adamwatson6384
    @adamwatson6384 3 роки тому +1

    Do you still have the roadking tyres on the fastrac?
    Think farmflix did interview with Mgaws. Seemed good lads.
    What's the cubic capacity of that Smyth trailer?

    • @Grassmen
      @Grassmen  3 роки тому +1

      50cm tho that would be silage sides on

    • @adamwatson6384
      @adamwatson6384 3 роки тому

      Wow! Our 16t Stewart is only 21 cube. No silage sides.

  • @russelljohnson4847
    @russelljohnson4847 3 роки тому +5

    Why don’t you leave the tops in the field and bring some sheep in to eat them off so your getting manure from the sheep and renting the field out for store sheep to eat them off just an idea.

    • @LewisLevy
      @LewisLevy 3 роки тому

      The sheep wouldn't eat the beets?

    • @russelljohnson4847
      @russelljohnson4847 3 роки тому

      @@LewisLevy there a lot of farmers in the UK that rent there fields out over winter for the sheep that’s had sugar beet in to eat the tops off.

    • @LewisLevy
      @LewisLevy 3 роки тому

      @@russelljohnson4847 Right. I've only heard of this in the method of planting fodder beets as a cover crop/ley thing and then letting the sheep eat the beets and use their manure as you said

    • @russelljohnson4847
      @russelljohnson4847 3 роки тому +1

      @@LewisLevy the farmers here let the sheep eat the sugar beet tops but they have to watch the sheep that they don’t blow up by eating too much.

  • @monkeymagic4555
    @monkeymagic4555 3 роки тому +1

    Tatties ya Bas!