Sunday, August 21, 2011

Corn and tomatoes...

Hi Followers,

sorry, that it took some longer to keep you up to date. I had a lot of stuff going on the last days. The demonstrations are starting slow here in California. The cool and wet spring delayed the crop, so that I could run only one demo with the BiG X 850 and our Easy Collect 753. It was very nice and tall corn. Unless it was a little bit green, the yield was about 32 Ton/ac. Massive Corn!
The customer was impressed about the performance of the 850 hp-Krone chopper. I was running against the biggest Deere and was going a little bit faster than he did. But: I had two more rows to chop!






On the way home, I passed a tomato field, where they were harvesting. Time to stop and take some pictures. The tomato harvester is working like a potato harvester. A knife is cutting the tomato plant of the ground and sieves are transporting it. Optical sensors sorting out the green tomato, the leaves and the rest of the plant are sucked out with big turbines. The tomatoes are overloaded “on the go.” Tractors are transporting the trailers to the dirt road, where they get picked up by trucks and get transported to the tomato factory, where they make sauce, juice or dried tomatoes. 










Another highlight of last week was the visit of Yosemite National Park. A very nice landscape and it’s for sure worth to visit the park sometime. Here are some impressions for you..








This week, there won’t be any chopping. We are heading to the headquarter in Memphis for a meeting. On Friday, I am flying straight to Texas to get some corn chopped for the feed lots in the panhandle of Texas.

More about that in a few days. So please check back later in the week.


Regards from California

Benedikt

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