The vegetable washing machine VWM-5000 is designed for small and medium-sized vegetable processing companies. This machine perfectly suits with the belt cutting machine BCM-3000, the conveyor belt HCB-600-TS and the centrifugal dryer in a complete vegetable processing line. The VWM-5000 comes standard with a fly catcher. The vegetables are either transported to the washing tank of the VWM-5000 by a conveyor belt or thrown in manually. In the washing tank, the vegetables are washed very intensively by a system of a powerful 11 kW pump and water nozzles in both side walls (for circulation) and in the back headboard (for propulsion). The products are submerged by a big drum (flycatcher) as well. Due to the perforated flycatcher, insects (floating) will be filtered out and removed. In case of products without any insects, the flycatcher can be tilted to the front during the washing of the products. This can also be done for cleaning the machine. Subsequently the vegetables will be transported over the vibrating sieve. Here the vegetables get an extra ‘shower’ with clean water by the sprinklers. The overflowing water is removed through the perforated soil to the filter tank. All the sand and vegetable leftovers are filtered out through the standard mounted fine mesh drum filter, whereupon the water is recycled to the washing tank. The filtered waste can be collected under the drum filter in a waste bin.