Abstract
This study presents the design, manufacture, and test of a two-wheel tractor-mounted potato digger elevator for harvesting potatoes. The experimental design for the prototype evaluations is a split plot where the conveyor slope (10°, 15°, and 20°) is the main plot and the rake angle (15°, 20°, and 25°) is a sub-plot with three replications. It was discovered that increasing the blade angle reduced tuber damage loss while increasing the conveyor slope. The greatest exposure effectiveness of 96.47% is recorded at a conveyor slope of 15° and a rake angle of 20°. At this optimum condition, damage percentage, conveyance efficiency, cleaning efficiency, drawbar pull, fuel consumption, wheel slip, soil swelling factor, soil mean weight diameter, pulverization ratio, and field capacity are 3.39%, 89.64%, 91.87%, 2959.1 N, 14.87 l/ha, 17.67%, 20.25%, 17.44 mm, 78.09%, and 0.127 hectares per hour, respectively. In comparison to manual hand hoe harvesting, the prototype can save 86.6% on labor and 63.36% on harvesting costs. The equipment is acceptable with its high promise for deployment to small to medium-sized farmers, and the authors advise re-evaluating at greater rake angles and conveying slope using multiple potato varieties and a double axel tractor.
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Claims 14
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing the blade angle reduced tuber damage loss.
- Taxon
- potatoes
Solanum tuberosume0 - Treatment
- blade anglee6
- Outcome
- tuber damage losse6
- Direction
- reducede6
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e6“It was discovered that increasing the blade angle reduced tuber damage loss while increasing the conveyor slope”
Claim · model-written summary
The greatest exposure effectiveness, 96.47%, was recorded at a 15° conveyor slope and 20° rake angle.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- a conveyor slope of 15° and a rake angle of 20°e1
- Outcome
- exposure effectivenesse1
- Direction
- greateste1
- Value
- 96.47%e1
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Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e1“The greatest exposure effectiveness of 96.47% is recorded at a conveyor slope of 15° and a rake angle of 20°”
Claim · model-written summary
At the optimum condition, damage percentage was 3.39%.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- optimum conditione2
- Outcome
- damage percentagee2
- Value
- 3.39%e2
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Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e2“At this optimum condition, damage percentage, conveyance efficiency, cleaning efficiency, drawbar pull, fuel consumption, wheel slip, soil swelling factor, soil mean weight diameter, pulverization ratio, and field capacity are 3.39%, 89.64%, 91.87%, 2959.1 N, 14.87 l/ha, 17.67%, 20.25%, 17.44 mm, 78.09%, and 0.127 hectares per hour, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
At the optimum condition, conveyance efficiency was 89.64%.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- optimum conditione2
- Outcome
- conveyance efficiencye2
- Value
- 89.64%e2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e2“At this optimum condition, damage percentage, conveyance efficiency, cleaning efficiency, drawbar pull, fuel consumption, wheel slip, soil swelling factor, soil mean weight diameter, pulverization ratio, and field capacity are 3.39%, 89.64%, 91.87%, 2959.1 N, 14.87 l/ha, 17.67%, 20.25%, 17.44 mm, 78.09%, and 0.127 hectares per hour, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
At the optimum condition, cleaning efficiency was 91.87%.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- optimum conditione2
- Outcome
- cleaning efficiencye2
- Value
- 91.87%e2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e2“At this optimum condition, damage percentage, conveyance efficiency, cleaning efficiency, drawbar pull, fuel consumption, wheel slip, soil swelling factor, soil mean weight diameter, pulverization ratio, and field capacity are 3.39%, 89.64%, 91.87%, 2959.1 N, 14.87 l/ha, 17.67%, 20.25%, 17.44 mm, 78.09%, and 0.127 hectares per hour, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
At the optimum condition, drawbar pull was 2959.1 N.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- optimum conditione2
- Outcome
- drawbar pulle2
- Value
- 2959.1 Ne2
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Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e2“At this optimum condition, damage percentage, conveyance efficiency, cleaning efficiency, drawbar pull, fuel consumption, wheel slip, soil swelling factor, soil mean weight diameter, pulverization ratio, and field capacity are 3.39%, 89.64%, 91.87%, 2959.1 N, 14.87 l/ha, 17.67%, 20.25%, 17.44 mm, 78.09%, and 0.127 hectares per hour, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
At the optimum condition, fuel consumption was 14.87 l/ha.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- optimum conditione2
- Outcome
- fuel consumptione2
- Value
- 14.87 l/hae2
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Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e2“At this optimum condition, damage percentage, conveyance efficiency, cleaning efficiency, drawbar pull, fuel consumption, wheel slip, soil swelling factor, soil mean weight diameter, pulverization ratio, and field capacity are 3.39%, 89.64%, 91.87%, 2959.1 N, 14.87 l/ha, 17.67%, 20.25%, 17.44 mm, 78.09%, and 0.127 hectares per hour, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
At the optimum condition, wheel slip was 17.67%.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- optimum conditione2
- Outcome
- wheel slipe2
- Value
- 17.67%e2
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Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e2“At this optimum condition, damage percentage, conveyance efficiency, cleaning efficiency, drawbar pull, fuel consumption, wheel slip, soil swelling factor, soil mean weight diameter, pulverization ratio, and field capacity are 3.39%, 89.64%, 91.87%, 2959.1 N, 14.87 l/ha, 17.67%, 20.25%, 17.44 mm, 78.09%, and 0.127 hectares per hour, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
At the optimum condition, soil swelling factor was 20.25%.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- optimum conditione2
- Outcome
- soil swelling factore2
- Value
- 20.25%e2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e2“At this optimum condition, damage percentage, conveyance efficiency, cleaning efficiency, drawbar pull, fuel consumption, wheel slip, soil swelling factor, soil mean weight diameter, pulverization ratio, and field capacity are 3.39%, 89.64%, 91.87%, 2959.1 N, 14.87 l/ha, 17.67%, 20.25%, 17.44 mm, 78.09%, and 0.127 hectares per hour, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
At the optimum condition, soil mean weight diameter was 17.44 mm.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- optimum conditione2
- Outcome
- soil mean weight diametere2
- Value
- 17.44 mme2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e2“At this optimum condition, damage percentage, conveyance efficiency, cleaning efficiency, drawbar pull, fuel consumption, wheel slip, soil swelling factor, soil mean weight diameter, pulverization ratio, and field capacity are 3.39%, 89.64%, 91.87%, 2959.1 N, 14.87 l/ha, 17.67%, 20.25%, 17.44 mm, 78.09%, and 0.127 hectares per hour, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
At the optimum condition, pulverization ratio was 78.09%.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- optimum conditione2
- Outcome
- pulverization ratioe2
- Value
- 78.09%e2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e2“At this optimum condition, damage percentage, conveyance efficiency, cleaning efficiency, drawbar pull, fuel consumption, wheel slip, soil swelling factor, soil mean weight diameter, pulverization ratio, and field capacity are 3.39%, 89.64%, 91.87%, 2959.1 N, 14.87 l/ha, 17.67%, 20.25%, 17.44 mm, 78.09%, and 0.127 hectares per hour, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
At the optimum condition, field capacity was 0.127 hectares per hour.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- optimum conditione2
- Outcome
- field capacitye2
- Value
- 0.127 hectares per houre2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e2“At this optimum condition, damage percentage, conveyance efficiency, cleaning efficiency, drawbar pull, fuel consumption, wheel slip, soil swelling factor, soil mean weight diameter, pulverization ratio, and field capacity are 3.39%, 89.64%, 91.87%, 2959.1 N, 14.87 l/ha, 17.67%, 20.25%, 17.44 mm, 78.09%, and 0.127 hectares per hour, respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
The prototype is acceptable for deployment to small to medium-sized farmers.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Outcome
- deployment to small to medium-sized farmerse4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e4“The equipment is acceptable with its high promise for deployment to small to medium-sized farmers”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors advise re-evaluating the machine at greater rake angles and conveying slope with multiple potato varieties and a double-axle tractor.
- Taxon
- potatoesSolanum tuberosume0
- Outcome
- re-evaluating at greater rake angles and conveying slopee5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“for harvesting potatoes”
e5“the authors advise re-evaluating at greater rake angles and conveying slope using multiple potato varieties and a double axel tractor”