Carrot harvester

Short description: Harvesting machine

This is the 6 row Self Propelled carrot harvester Asa Lift started up in 2011 A top lift and a share lift self-propelled carrot harvester manufactured by SIMON

A Carrot harvester is an agricultural machine for harvesting carrots. Carrot harvesters are either top lifters or share lifters and may be tractor mounted, trailed behind a tractor or self-propelled.[1] The machine typically harvests between one and six rows of carrots at once.

## Contents

* 1 Operation
* 1.1 Top lifting harvesters
* 1.2 Share lifting harvesters
* 1.3 Cleaning and collection
* 2 References
* 3 External links

## Operation

The two types of harvesters differ in how they get the carrots from the ground.

### Top lifting harvesters

Top lifters use rubber belts to grab the green tops of the carrot plant and pull them from the soil. A share pushes under the carrot root and loosens the plant.

The belt takes the entire carrot into the machine where the tops are cut off, sent along a waste path, and dropped back on to the field.

### Share lifting harvesters

A share lifter uses a share to get the carrots out of the ground from underneath. The machine must be preceded by a topper to cut the green tops off the carrot plants. The carrots travel along a longer web to separate the soil.

### Cleaning and collection

The carrot roots travel along one or more webs to remove most of the soil attached to the carrot. The carrots are collected either in a storage tank on the machine (called a "Bunker") or in a trailer pulled alongside the machine by another tractor.

## References

1. ↑ Geoffriau, Emmanuel; Simon, Philipp W. (2020-07-29) (in en). Carrots and Related Apiaceae Crops, 2nd Edition. CABI. ISBN 978-1-78924-095-5. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Carrots_and_Related_Apiaceae_Crops_2nd_E/5_f1DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA100&printsec=frontcover.

## External links

Template:Carrots

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