Sugar beet harvest apparatus

A sugar beet harvest apparatus, comprising:

• a frame having a coupling adapted to mechanically couple with a motive power source;
• at least four helical screw propellers affixed to said frame;
• a first pair of said at least four helical screw propellers arranged in a V-shaped configuration within a horizontal plane configured to be immediately adjacent to and generally parallel to a surface of the earth;
• and
• a second pair of said at least four helical screw propellers arranged in a V-shaped configuration within a plane parallel to and above said plane defined by said first pair of said at least four helical screw propellers, and extending more distally than said first pair of said at least four helical screw propellers.

A sugar beet harvest apparatus configured to traverse and harvest sugar beets grown in parallel rows within the earth, said parallel rows defining a direction of sugar beet harvest apparatus travel, comprising:

• a frame having a coupling adapted to mechanically couple with a tractor;
• a pair of field cultivators affixed to said frame, each of said pair of field cultivators having a ground piercing tooth;
• a pair of discs affixed to said frame, displaced from and trailing said at least one field cultivator along a longitudinal axis of said root crop harvest apparatus;
• and
• at least four helical screw propellers affixed to said frame, displaced from and trailing said at least one field cultivator and said at least one disc along said longitudinal axis of said root crop harvest apparatus, each individual one of said at least four helical screw propellers having a rotary hydraulic motor coupled to and driving a rotary shaft having a helically wrapped screw thread;
• a first pair of said at least four helical screw propellers arranged in a V-shaped configuration within a horizontal plane configured to be immediately adjacent to and generally parallel to a surface of the earth;
• and
• a second pair of said at least four helical screw propellers arranged in a V-shaped configuration within a plane parallel to and above said plane defined by said first pair of said at least four helical screw propellers, and extending more distally to said at least one field cultivator than said first pair of said at least four helical screw propellers.