A System for Whole Stick Cane Harvesting:
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چکیده
Arguments are presented favouring the step-wise introduction of mechanisation into cane harvesting. The multi-pass "McConnel" system of whole stick harvesting offers such a phased introduction. Three machines are introduced in the following order as labour becomes scarcer a versatile loader, a reaping aid which leaves the cane in orderly swaths "inline", and a pickup cleaner-bundler which takes in the swath tops first. The cleaner-bundler machine ("Stage TI") is described in some detail in view of its imminent introduction into the South African industry through a development agreement recently arranged with the South African Sugar Association.
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