ASABE Technical Library - Abstract

Click on “Download PDF” for the PDF version or on the title for the HTML version.
If you are not an ASABE member or if your employer has not arranged for access to the full-text, view access and subscription options

Drying Rates, Losses and Fuel Requirements for Mowing and Conditioning Alfalfa

Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org

Citation:  Transactions of the ASAE. 27 (3): 0715-0720. (doi: 10.13031/2013.32859) @1984
Authors:   C. A. Rotz, D. J. Sprott
Keywords:   

ABSTRACT FIELD tests were conducted to compare drying rates, losses and fuel requirements for mowing and conditioning alfalfa with machines which utilized cutterbar, flail, rotary disk and rotary drum mowing devices and roll and flail type conditioning devices. Drying rates averaged over all tests did not show large, consistent differences between machine treatments. Shatter losses were substantially higher for the flail mower-conditioner. Fuel and power requirements were significantly higher for the rotary drum mower, flail mower and rotary disk mower with flail conditioning than for the cutterbar and rotary disk mowers with roll conditioning.

(Download PDF)    (Export to EndNotes)