Development of a tillage-machine for seed-bed cultivation of heavy soils

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Abstract

Soils with a high fraction of clay, so called heavy soils, offer high crop yields for farmers, but the problem is the short time range to do tillage respectively seed-bed cultivation. Therefore implements with high draft force requirements providing limited seed-bed quality. A new implement with active tools should be developed, which reduces the traction force up to generating propulsion and do well quality seed-bed cultivation in one transition. This machine unites the process of subsoiling, pre-crushing, deep-compacting and fine-crushing in two active powered working stages with different tools. Therefore, new working tools for each section were developed and tested in field. The generation of propulsion with these new tools was validated by different working results of subsoiling and pre-crushing in dependence of the slip ratio. The tool combination has proven the potential to work effectively for seed-bed cultivation of heavy soils.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)569-573
Number of pages5
JournalVDI Berichte
Volume2017
Issue number2300
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title75th Conference on Agricultural Engineering, LAND TECHNIK AgEng 2017
Duration10 - 11 November 2017
CityHanover
CountryGermany

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