Energy Requirements of Tillage Machines Measurement and Field Demonstration

F.D. Tompkins, W.E. Hart, J.B. Wilkerson, R.S. Freeland, and L.R. Wilhelm


 
ABSTRACT

Radar ground speed sensing, an engine speed sensor, and electronic filters for analog signals from system transducers were added to a microcomputer-based instrumentation package designed to monitor tractor operating parameters and energy inputs to implements powered by the tractor. During 1984, the 100-ptohp instrumented tractor was used to measure the energy inputs to selected tillage and planting implements operated in a variety of soil and tractive surface conditions. The system was also used in a series of field demonstrations illustrating the effects of varying tractor/implement operating parameters upon energy requirements of soil engaging machines. Typifying the data collected, chisel plowing at 3.6 mph in firm silt loam soil required 1.5 gallons of diesel fuel per acre.



Reprinted from 1985 Proceedings: Beltwide Cotton Production Research Conferences pp. 114 - 118
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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