https://doi.org/10.4081/jae.2008.2.1

TEST OF AN ANIMAL DRAWN FIELD IMPLEMENT CART

Vol. 39 No. 2 (2008)
Published: 30 June 2008
animal traction, horse-drawn hitch cart, PTO traction-powered efficiency.
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Paolo Spugnoli
mikimos@mac.com
Alessandro Parenti
Piernicola Masella
Esteban Melani
The field performance of a horse-drawn hitch cart equipped with a PTO system powered by the two cart ground wheels have been investigated. For this purpose field tests on clay and turf soil, with varying ballast and PTO torque, have been carried out pulling the cart by a tractor. Preliminary tests were aimed at assessing the traction capability of horse breed. These tests showed that the mean draught force given by two of these horses was 173daN, average working speed was about 1m*s-1, resulting a mean draught power developed by each horse of about 0.86kW. The PTO cart system performance has shown that the torque has not exceeded 2.4daN*m, maximum draught or PTO power was 1.15kW, rotation speed just higher than 400min-1, with mean efficiency of about 50%. These values are consistent with horse performance and small haymaking, fertilizing, seeding and chemical application machine requirements.

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Spugnoli, P., Parenti, A., Masella, P. and Melani, E. (2008) “TEST OF AN ANIMAL DRAWN FIELD IMPLEMENT CART”, Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 39(2), pp. 1–5. doi: 10.4081/jae.2008.2.1.

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