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My grandpa loaded sugar beets into open hoppers in Montana for 30 winters (farmed in the summer) lots of old B&W pics of him loading them from the side with a HUGE front end loader. Being a beet farmer most of my life...I have been around this stuff ALOT. <br />The beets are loaded into trucks in the field, hauled to the piling ground or factory piling ground. The wait in line to go over the "piler" which then conveys the beets into huge piles out in the middle of the yard, usually parallel to one another, larger factories actually have a cover shed that the trucks drive into where the piler is stored, thus keeping the beets out of the elements. if stacked outside the beets are piled on to halved culverts which allow for ventilation. A blower is placed on the end to circulate air. Hay is then blown on top of the piles and sides of the piles as a insulator. Bulldozers are driven up the sides of the piles and ride on the tops to level them. This is when the huge front end loaders come and scoop up the beets, and deposit them into the intake hoppers on the side of the factory or into the high side rail hoppers. <br />Sidenote...if it interests you...the beets are not alsways transfered by rail, in Montana and Red River Valley of North Dakota, a company called Trans-systems (greatfalls, MT) is contracted to haul the beets via hoppered semi-trucks with a pup from remote pile grounds to the main factory for processing. <br />I have some old pictures digitzed of the loading process if anyone would like them e-mailed I would be glad to. <br />sjstrasheim@yahoo.com
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