Theoretical Study of Transverse Offsets of Wide Span Tractor Working Implements and Their Influence on Damage to Row Crops

Volodymyr Bulgakov, Simone Pascuzzi, Valerii Adamchuk, Volodymyr Kuvachov and Ladislav Nozdrovicky
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Volodymyr Bulgakov: Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Design and Engineering, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Heroyiv Oborony 15, 03041 Kyiv, Ukraine
Simone Pascuzzi: Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
Valerii Adamchuk: National Scientific Centre “Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Electrification”, Vokzalna 1, 1108631 Glevaha, Ukraine
Volodymyr Kuvachov: Department of Machine use in crop production, Mechanical and Technological Faculty, Tavria State Agrotechnological University, Khmelnytskiy av. 18, 72312 Melitopol, Zaporozhye Region, Ukraine
Ladislav Nozdrovicky: Department of Machines and Production Biosystems, Faculty of Engineering, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Trieda Andreja Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovakia

Agriculture, 2019, vol. 9, issue 7, 1-10

Abstract: Wide span tractors have a wide transversal bar, on which different implements can be mounted, while the supporting wheels follow the set traffic-lanes. The stability of wide span tractor movement is influenced by unbroken small angular deviations and transversal displacements of the machine due to several factors. These deflections from the set trajectories affect the working implements, especially the peripheral ones, which can cut the plants if wide span tractors are used to manage row crops. In this context, it needs to consider a safeguard zone that allows to reduce the probability of contact between working implements and plants. The aim of this paper was to determine the quantitative effect of transverse displacements of the working implements and the suitable size of the aforesaid safeguard zone. The magnitude of the inner and outer displacements of the working implements depends significantly on their location in relation to the center of the wide span tractor. For working implements located outside the center of the tractor, the outer safeguard zone should be larger than the inner zone. The probability of crop damage by working implements can be reduced by automated control of wide span tractor movement.

Keywords: controlled traffic farming; wide span tractor; row crop damage; theoretical modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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