there are different methods used for threshing of grain crops. usual threshers operate based on the impact force (in threshing unit) that may damage the grains. in another method named axial-flow, grain damage is less so these types of the harvesting machines are being used more than before. in this study one of the common rice threshers (model t30) locally made in ashtad company was modified t...

multistage and semi-mechanized harvesting of rice in khouzestan province, iran, causes much loss. depending on available facilities and conditions, either spike-tooth or rasp-bar cylinders are employed with either direct or indirect combine harvesting methods. the present research studied the effect of these different harvesting methods on the amount of losses in two rice varieties in 2001-2002...

Significant increases in rice production can be obtained in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by increasing rice grain yield in existing production systems, expanding rice harvested area, and reducing harvest and postharvest losses. However, availability of labour at critical times is often a major constraint, and this situation is aggravated by the effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Delays during harves...

Prosopis africana is an under utilized tree crop with immense medicinal and industrial values. Manual threshing of the pods to extract the seeds is uneconomical, time consuming, associated with drudgery and low output capacity. A motorized Prosopis africana pod thresher was designed, fabricated and assessed for performance. The main components of the thresher include hopper, threshing unit, cle...

A decorticating machine for Prosopis Africana was developed, tested and evaluated. Prosopis Africana is popular in the Sub-Saharan Africa, with all the parts of the tree useful for medicinal purposes. This study focuses on the threshing of the pod to obtain the seed, which is the most widely used of the parts of the Prosopis Africana tree. Results from preliminary investigations carried out of ...

Keywords: Single-plant paddy thresher Whole-feeding Hierarchical multi-rollers threshing Fish scale sieve plate High-precision and automation a b s t r a c t Threshing is an essential pretreatment in rice yield-related traits evaluation and rice thresher is an important study of agricultural machinery automation. However, traditional threshers aim at threshing filled grains with simple function...

This paper concerns the analysis of the relationship between the threshing process in an axial flow harvesting machine and its vibro-acoustic behaviour. Several indoor and outdoor measurements are performed in various operational conditions in order to evaluate their influence on the vibration response of the threshing unit. The test results have been used to identify how the vibration and soun...