TRANSPORTATION OF MATERIAL

摘要

The invention relates to the transportation of farm produce in particular sugar cane. It provides a transport arrangement for transporting material on a load bed of a vehicle in a sideways tippable manner. The transport arrangement has a container in which the material is received, a loading formation for engagement by a loading mechanism to load the container onto and unload it from the load bed, a pivot arrangement defining a pivot axis that is parallel to a longitudinal axis of the load bed about which the container is pivotable to discharge material contained therein, and a lifting arrangement for engagement by a lifting mechanism which lifts the container, in use, to pivot the container about the pivot axis. The invention also provides a transport system for transporting material, comprising the transport assemblies, a number of transport vehicles, and a loading vehicle provided with a loading mechanism for loading the transport arrangements onto and from the transport vehicles. The invention still further provides a transport vehicle for the transport assemblies and to a discharge installation where material is discharged from the transport assemblies. The invention extends also to a method of transporting farm products from a field or orchard or the like to a processing facility.