Principles Of Farm Machinery

Research and development in farm machinery. Implement types, field capacities, and costs. Mechanical power transmission and power-take-off drives. Hydraulic power transmission and implement controls. Soil tillage and dynamics. Moldboard plows. Disk implements. Hitch systems and hitching tillage implements. Chisel-type and multipowered tillage implements. Crop planting. Row-crop cultivation, flaming, and thinning. Applying fertilizers and granular pesticides. Spraying and dusting. Hay harvesting: cutting, conditioning, and windrowing. Packaging and handling hay. Forage chopping and handling. Grain and seed harvesting. Corn picking and shelling. Cotton harvesting. Root crop harvesting. Fruit and vegetable harvesting and handling. Draft, energy, and power requirements. Typical operating speeds for implements. Coefficients of rolling resistance for pneumatic tires. Graphic symbols for fluid power diagrams. SI units, customary units, and conversion factors.

The book will serve as a useful design resource and as a practice kit to the agricultural engineering graduates, post graduates in farm power and machinery and for the students appearing for various competitive exams such as ARS, NET, GATE, JRF/SRF etc. The technology & improved designs of farm equipment and technical know how associated with it, is going to the quite useful to establish techno-economic viability for the staff engaged in R&D in farm machinery. This will also be quite useful reference book for the design engineers engaged in design and development of improved machinery in the modern agricultural mechanization. This is the first text book of its kind to address systematically the design prob elms involved in farm machinery. It offers comprehensive coverage of design principles and practices