Adaptação de plataforma de corte para forrageira autopropelida

Abstract

The agribusiness sector has emerged in Brazil as a great potential for economic growth. To do só, farmers need to make optimum use of their land productivity and experiment with profitable crop rotations. Silage practices using winter crops, which include plants such as oats, wheat and ryegrass, are poorly used in the southern region of the country, given the technical and cultural difficulties. Among the technical limitations for this type of activity are the high costs with forage equipment that make the farmer unfeasible to innovate in his properties. This work presents the creation and assembly of a cheap and practical alternative for the cutting and grinding of winter plants for a rural property in the Western of Paraná. For the development of the adaptation a cutting platform of a John Deere ® brand automotive harvester was used, coupled with a forage machine of the same brand. The proposal described here began with the mechanical, hydraulic and electrical designs, and then proceeded to the assembly of the prototype. Field operational tests were performed and the results were very satisfactory comparing with high price of a commercial equipment for this function or the alternative to perform the silage by manual means.