Design and Development of Self-Prospered Riding Reapers Machine
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Date
2018-12
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AAU
Abstract
Harvesting is the process of collecting the mature crop from the field. Harvesting
operation includes cutting, laying, gathering, transporting, stacking the cut crop. The
mechanization of harvesting operation is essential to minimize the cost of harvesting, crop
production cost, crop loss, turnaround time, weather risk, and to increase benefit by
appropriate technology. In order to achieve the above goal, a manually controlled reaper
machine is designed and developed which are support to the Farmers and it will reduce
the cost of crop cutting and collecting in field and it will achievable highest performance
under the given constraints.
Research methodology consists of series of actions or steps necessary to effectively
carry out research and the desired sequencing of these steps. Identify Statement of the
problems, Studying the present design of the reaper machine, Review the literature,
Product development generic design process steps for reaper harvesters machine,
planning, concept development, system-level design, detail design, testing and refinement
and product ramp-up, in this step it’s define the material properties according to the
design. to model the reaper machine by using Catia software, Prototype development,
testing for validation and Interpret and report.
Material are selected on the basis of strength requirement of various components of the
Reaper machine. The machine is constructed from locally available materials. This selfpropelled
reaper
is
operated
at
forward
speed
of
2.54
m/s.
It
has
120
cm
size
of
cutter
bar
and
dropped bundling mechanism. The field capacity 0.306 ha/hr, respectively. The
required labor for harvesting one hectare of wheat and rice reaper harvesting field
operation are needs 2 man-hr/ha. The quantity of fuel required to fill the tank fully after
harvesting the plot was measured to determine the quantity of fuel consumed for reaping
the test plot and fuel consumption 1.17 l/h.
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Keywords
Reapers Machine, harvesters machine