TERRA DOS T3 1,000:

It was back in the summer of 2015 that the Terra Dos T3 type 1,000 machine drove out of the HOLMER Maschinenbau GmbH factory hall in Eggmühl. After the detailed quality check, which is performed on every HOLMER machine, it was given a special black covering labelled “Terra Dos T3 1,000”. The Terra Dos T3 1,000 is used by the firm Börde AGRO-Service (Saxony-Anhalt), where it cleared just under 800 hectares in the 2015 campaign, approx. 650 of these with a defoliator. Börde AGRO-Service is using a total of three Terra Dos T3, one of which is equipped with a nine-row lifting unit. The machine outfit is completed with five lifters remodelled as loading vehicles.

Party at Börde AGRO-Service
At the Börde AGRO-Service Christmas party on December 18, 2015, a toast was raised not only to the team’s performance but also to the Terra Dos T3 1,000. Managing Director Axel Spengler welcomed customers, drivers, family members and a HOLMER delegation from Eggmühl – and expressed his thanks for the successful year of 2015: Machines and drivers have done sterling work - “It’s all good!” HOLMER sales manager Jürgen Eifler also looked back on 2015 – it was an exciting year, what with the construction of the Terra Dos T3 1,000, the award for Terra Dos T4 as “Machine of the Year 2016”, the world record in lifting beets and the purchase of the new company premises. After the speeches, all of the guests received a set of basic HOLMER equipment, and Jürgen Eifler presented Managing Director Axel Spengler with a glass cube engraved with a Terra Dos T3 and bearing the inscription “Terra Dos T3 1,000” as a memento.   The rest of the evening continued in a relaxed vein with excellent food at tables decorated befittingly with HOLMER flags, models and posters.

The Terra Dos series
The first self-propelled six-row sugar beet harvester was built in Eggmühl as long ago as 1974 – a milestone in agricultural engineering. The lifters are constantly being refined in Eggmühl: The Terra Dos generation was first built in 1996. Terra (Lat. earth) stands for soil protection; Dos (Span. two) for the crab-steering mode, because the lifter opens a second track by means of the dogleg. The Terra Dos T2 was built in Eggmühl from 2000 to 2010. Over 1000 of this series were built.  Its successor, the Terra Dos T3, also made it to the 1000 mark. So, with its Terra Dos series, HOLMER has produced the most successful beet lifters of all time. The most recent model, the Terra Dos T4, is continuing the series successfully as Machine of the Year 2014 and 2016.