Effect of Soil Moisture Content, Forward Speed and Bent Leg Blade Spaces on Soil Pulverization

Solhjou, Aliakbar; Alavimanesh, Seiid Mansur

doi:10.22092/erams.2018.122916.1270

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Assistant Professor in Agricultural Engineering Research Department, Fars Agricultural and Natural Resources and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Shiraz, Iran.

² Agricultural Engineering Research Department, Fars Agricultural and Natural Resources and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Shiraz, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22092/erams.2018.122916.1270

Abstract

The factors influencing the efficiency of tillage tools are such as soil moisture content, tool geometry and forward speed. This study was a spilit-spilit plot experimental design with three replications to determine the effect of new bent leg tillage on soil pulverization. Treatments were three soil moisture content levels of 7-10, 10-13 and 13-16 as the main plots, three forward speeds of 5, 7.5 and 10 km/h as the sub-plots and three blade spaces of 12, 16 and 20 cm as the sub-sub-plots. In this research, the effect of bent leg tillage on soil moisture content, forward speed and clod mean weight diameter (MWD) were studied. Results indicated that forward speed, shank spaces and soil moisture content during tillage affected MWD. Increasing forward speed and soil moisture content during tillage and also reducing blade spaces reduced MWD. The findings show that the technology of the new bent leg tillage has the potential to increase forward speed during tillage operation with reducing MWD. Also, it can improve work-rate and reduce the time of seed-bed preparation.

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Agricultural Mechanization and Systems Research

Effect of Soil Moisture Content, Forward Speed and Bent Leg Blade Spaces on Soil Pulverization

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Volume 20, Issue 73 - Serial Number 73
March 2020
Pages 83-92

Effect of Soil Moisture Content, Forward Speed and Bent Leg Blade Spaces on Soil Pulverization

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Volume 20, Issue 73 - Serial Number 73March 2020Pages 83-92

Volume 20, Issue 73 - Serial Number 73
March 2020
Pages 83-92