Comparison study between the field performance of a movable boards and conventional ditch openers in cultivated and uncultivated soils, part 3 : the specific resistance

Abstract EN

The field performance of movable boards ditch opener (MB) and conventional ditch opener (CD) was contrasted by using a specific resistance to determine the optimum performance of either one of them.

The comparison was conducted using three operating depths (30, 40 and 50cm), three angles between the boards of MB (45, 60 and 750), one angle for CD (650) because its boards were fixed, three wings width of the foot of MB whereas, for CD, one share width (35cm) and two soil types (cultivated and uncultivated).

CD could not penetrate the uncultivated soil more than 25cm so that there was one operating depth.

The results of the experiments showed that SR for MB decreased as the operating depth, the angle between the boards and the width of the wings of the foot in both soil types were increased.

Specific resistance (SR) for CD also decreased as the operating depth increased in the cultivated soil, but in the uncultivated soil, CD could not penetrate the soil more than 25cm.

SR for MB was lower than that for CD for all operating depths, the angle between the boards, the width of the wings of the foot in both soil types.

SR for MB and CD in the cultivated soil was low compared to uncultivated soil.

The soil type decreased SR for MB more than the operating depth, the angle between its boards and the width of its wings.

On the other hand, the angle between its boards reduced SR more than the width of the wings and the operating depth.

MB surpassed CD in giving lower SR and that means the field performance of MB was higher than that for CD.