Editors and Sections Genetics and Breeding English EditorYanka Ivanova (Bulgaria) 2016 ISSN 1313 -8820 Volume 8, Number 3 September 2016Grain combines productivity according to various unloading methods -in the field and at the edge of the field Introduction leave the processed strip, move to the edge of the field and unload into vehicles (tractor vehicles or road vehicles) located outside it (Delchev et al., 2016). The reasons for this are as follows: Harvesting crops is the final stage of all activities related to their -when harvesting rice -it is practically impossible for a vehicle cultivation and is characterized by seasonality, high energy to enter into the rice "cells" (Delchev and Trendafilov, 2015); consumption, yield losses and multi-variability (Ishpekov, 2013). The -when harvesting sunflower -the sunflower stubbles harvest of cereals is one of the main activities in agriculture and it intensively destroy the vehicle tyres; should be done within a shorter period -maximum 10 -12 days, in -waterlogged soil, presence of a deep drainage ditch between order to avoid high losses of grain spillage and to reduce the risk of the road and the field or undersized area; crop damage due to environmental conditions (Nikolov et al., 1974).-use of road vehicles that are not suitable for movement onto Cereals account for the largest percentage of arable land in the stubbles. country. The process of their harvesting is fully mechanized and is It should be noted that the latter reason is becoming more characterized by simultaneous operation of harvesters, vehicles and relevant with the construction of highways in the country and the other machines that ensure this process. Of great importance is the separation of arable land in the farms, which determines the use of overall logistics of the process, which is associated both with the road vehicles with large capacity and high transport speed. proper organization and selection of a variety of ways and means to Unloading the grain tanks and moving the combines to the perform the processes. The improper method of harvesting, transport vehicles outside the field in most cases is necessary and delaying the harvesting campaign or poor organization can result in appropriate, but it is associated with additional operations, which substantial material losses (Mandradzhiev, 2006; Li et al., 2013; extend the total unloading time. This, in turn, results in a decrease in Delchev and Trendafilov, 2013; Petrovna, 2014). Important for both productivity (hourly, daily, seasonal) and in extending the harvest the organization and the combine productivity is the method of term. It is known that the combine productivity depends both on the unloading the grain tanks.technical parameters of the machine, and on the logistics factors. There are two main ways of unloading grain tanks: unloading on Such a factor is the place of unloading the full grain tanks. the go and unloading at a standstill. In terms of the organization of The objective of this article is to investigate how the unload...
Unloading time of the harvester hopper at standstill depends also on the duration of the operations performed by the transport vehicle as time from the commencement of the harvester signalling to the start of the transport vehicle and the time from the start of the transport vehicle till its arrival under the unloading screw of the grain harvester. The time measuring of the operations established that the average time of commencement of the harvester signalling until the start of the transport vehicle was 215.5 s, and the time for moving of the transport vehicle to the grain harvester was 222 s. It was found that in 49% of the duration of the operations the drivers of the transport vehicles wait before going to the grain harvester (from the total of 437.5 s). This is due to the incorrect setting of the time of commencement of the first level signalling, which prevents drivers from starting and respectively arriving at the exact moment at the harvesters. It has also been found that the unloading of the harvester grain hopper takes place immediately after the arrival of the transport vehicles at it and therefore a non-filled hopper is unloaded. As a result, about 1 m³ of the harvester hopper is not used and also the number of its stops for unloading increase by about 11%, practically reducing its productivity. Keywords: grain harvester, unloading the grain harvester hopper, productivity, signaling about the grain level in the hopper, joint work of harvester and transport vehicle. ARTTEApplied Researches in Technics, Technologies and Education
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