Working demo of beet harvester range announced for 2024
22nd January 2024
The celebrated biennial J Riley working demonstration will return in January 2024. The event will showcase the latest Vervaet beet harvester range at work, including turbine and rollerbed models, as well as the Riley Beet Chaser conversion.
As part of J Riley’s 30th anniversary celebrations in 2024, an older Vervaet harvester will be running alongside its younger cousins.
The comprehensive Vervaet range offers a solution for all soil types and demands, the company says. Combined with the option of Riley refurbished machines, there is something to suit every scenario from a farm lifting its own fodder beet through to the largest sugar beet contractor.
A new lifter frame and lifting shares for turbine-type machines will be shown in public for the first time. The new more open frame design affords the operator exceptional visibility across the shares.
The new share leg design is simpler, with integral drive motor and gearbox assemblies between each pair of independently mounted share legs. This share arrangement was successfully trialled on multiple machines during the past five seasons and is already used on Vervaet harvesters with the rollerbed primary cleaning system introduced in 2021.
Demand for self-propelled beet chasers has been steadily increasing during recent beet campaigns. The Riley Beet Chaser 25, based on a refurbished Vervaet Beet Eater 625 or 925 harvester, has proven to be a very capable machine with numerous units now running in the UK. The most recent example will be in action at the demonstration.
Jeremy Riley founded J Riley Beet Harvesters (UK) Ltd in 1994 to become the UK importer for Vervaet. The right machines, combined with Rileys’ first-class backup, made Vervaet the UK market leader, a position which has been retained for well over two decades.
In recent years Jeremy retired and sold the business, which is now co-owned by Vervaet and managing director Matt Carse. The extraordinarily successful Vervaet 17t harvester was pivotal to this success, and an example will be working at the event to mark the occasion and demonstrate how harvesters have changed over the past 20 years.
The Riley demonstration is an unmissable event for those with an involvement in sugar beet harvesting and the wider industry, as well as an enjoyable day out. Refreshments will include the highly-regarded hog roast prepared by North-Norfolk butchers H.V. Graves.
The event will be held on 31st January in the vicinity of the company’s premises near Attlebridge, Norfolk. For more details visit the J Riley website here.
