victor sugar beet

victor sugar beet

victor sugar beet

Product catalog summary
Overview: The Victor sugar beet harvesters by Garford are designed for high performance and quality in sugar beet harvesting. They offer significant advantages in fuel efficiency, maintenance, and yield savings compared to typical self-propelled machines.
Key Features:
  • Fuel Efficiency: The harvesters consume less fuel than typical self-propelled machines.
  • Hydraulic Drive: The 6-row model features a full hydraulic drive, reducing maintenance needs.
  • Yield Savings: Skew bar toppers can save up to 5% in yield.
  • Profit Maximization: The design focuses on minimizing costs, losses, damage, top tares, and dirt tares.
Performance: The 6-row harvester, when paired with a 135HP tractor, matches the work rates of self-propelled harvesters but with lower running costs. It has demonstrated lower harvesting losses in British Sugar's assessments.
Technical Specifications:
  • Lifter Length: 7.3 meters for the 6-row model.
  • Transport Width: 3.2 meters for the 6-row model.
  • Weight: 6300 kg for the 6-row model.
  • Performance: 1.95 hectares per hour and 120 tonnes per hour for the 6-row model.
  • Tractor Requirements: Minimum 135HP, 4-wheel drive, with specific PTO and hydraulic supply needs.
Innovative Features:
  • Defoliator: Front-mounted, hydraulically driven, effectively cuts and spreads tops.
  • Skew Bar Topper: Known for economical topping, proven to save yield.
  • Spiroll Cleaner: Ensures high-quality harvesting by removing clods, stones, and trash without damaging roots.
  • Adjustable Lifting Wheels: Allows quick adaptation to different soil conditions.
Additional Information: The harvester includes a high-capacity discharge elevator that can be disengaged for transport or trailer changes. The machine is adaptable to various harvesting conditions and is recognized for innovation with The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in 2010.
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providing advanced technology For progressive Farming sugar beet harvesters the first choice for high performance, high quality sugar beet harvesting

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The Garford Victor offers the proven Garford ‘Quality Harvesting Systems’ in a package giving high output and economy. In combination with a tractor of 135HP the 6 row harvester will achieve work rates consistent with self propelled 6 row harvesters but with much lower running costs. In British Sugar’s harvester demonstrations and quality harvesting assessments the Victor has consistently achieved lower harvesting losses than other makes. Dramatically lower fuel consumption than a typical self propelled machine! The front mounted defoliator is mounted on the front of the tractor via either the...

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Successful lifting depends on very accurate steering and depth control. In the Garford Victor this is electronically controlled through an array of sensor guides across the front of the lifter. These guides sense on the crowns of every row and so give near perfect tracking of the topper and lifting wheels. Easily adaptable for all harvesting conditions! The unique Garford 4 spoke lifting wheels with dial a spoke system allows quick adjustment to suit light/ heavy soils or wet/dry conditions. From the lifting wheels the beet pass over a set of centering rollers and then up onto the main ‘spiroll’...

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Garford Victor sugar beet harvesters - Technical Specification Specifications... Length Transport height Discharge width ha/hr. spot performance tonne/hr. spot performance Working height Transport width Tractor requirement… Power Power Take Off, rear only required Wheel Equipment recommended Drawbar coupling Standard low level pick up hitch or clevis drawbar Hydraulic supply requirement Electrical supply requirement Front linkage The front topper is supported on the front of the tractor via a category 2 front linkage. The standard harvester package comes complete with a Garford category 2 front...

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