METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HARVESTING ROOT CROPS, PARTICULARLY BEETROOT CROPS Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A01D25/04 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: method consists in tilling soil with harvesting tools equipped with share surfaces and moving along rows; also roots are dug out of tilled soil. Soil on both sides of rows of roots is flatly elevated with share surfaces which pass sideways to the direction of harvesting tools motion. Roots are dug out of tilled soil with guiding planes of the harvesting tools, which are locally raised behind share surfaces facing rows with their free ends. The device is designed to travel along the rows with harvesting tools equipped with share surfaces to dig roots out of soil. Share surfaces pass sideways to the direction of the harvesting tools motion to provide flat elevation of soil from both sides of the rows and soil tilling. To dig roots out of tilled soil locally behind share surfaces facing rows with their free ends there are foreseen rising surfaces.

EFFECT: upgraded quality of root harvesting and facilitation of preparing field to new sowing.

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