ROPA Tiger 6, Original Operating Manual

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Operation
Lifter
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6.14.3 Setting lifting depth
As already mentioned several times, ROPA cannot give any generally applicable rec-
ommendations for such work. Experience and specialist agricultural knowledge of
the driver are decisive for the lifting results, because the machine setting exclusively
depends on local conditions.
The lifting depth should be set so that the sugar beets are lifted from the ground with-
out damage. When you see sugar beets on the lifting rollers that are torn off at the bot-
tom, then the share depth must be lowered on the that row (deeper lifting).
If the soil is very loose and easily screened, lifting should be deeper than specifically
required. In this way, you achieve much more careful handling of the beets, because
then there is sufficient soil present for strainer wheel cleaning. This soil ensures a
damping effect and helps to avoid damage to the beets.
In case of very sticky soil, you should keep the lifting depth as small as possible. This
loads the cleaning installations substantially less with the soil present in abundance
anyway. In this case, if the lifting depth is too deep, this may result in an increased soil
content on the beets and to reduced throughput of the machine.
The lifting depth is set at different points:
– Setting rollers movement height
– Setting share depth, in some cases single rows are adjusted differently from the
general lifting depth (uneven ground etc.)