Determining the qualitative working indices for various forms of the active body of a rut soil compartmentation equipment

National Research Development Institute for Machines and Installations Designed to Agriculture and Food Industry, 6 Ion Ionescu de la Brad Blv., 013813 Bucharest, Sector 1, Romania

^* Corresponding author: oprescu.remusmarius@gmail.com

Abstract

The subdivision of ruts represents the process of periodic formation between their ridges of small soil dams, small pools of water accumulation created in the processed soil with the help of equipment to open watering channels in order to reduce the phenomenon of erosion and to make more efficient use of the water from precipitation or by using sprinkler systems. This is a method of soil and water conservation that is used on inclined lands with a slope of less than 6^o or on disturbed land. The practice began to be widely adopted following the use of new herbicide technologies necessary for weed control but also for improving the mechanical equipment for dam construction. In this paper are presented the results obtained from the optimization of the dimensions and the shape of the working body of the PCVM2,2 + EMBC2 equipment used in the compartmentation of the ruts in the vine-apple orchards with calculation of the qualitative indices of obtained work.