Projeto estrutural de braço manipulador de bags

Abstract

The search for greater efficiency in agricultural activities, mainly concerning about time of operation, made that the use of big bags became more common in the rural environment. This is because its utilization considerably reduces the loading and unloading time, and also the amount of labor required for this action. However, because of the large mass that need to be displaced in the bags, it is necessary some mechanical system to enable the handling of the load, since a man cannot do it by himself. To that, the most used equipments are forklifts and hydraulic winches coupled in tractors, or even in the trucks themselves. Considering that these devices have a high cost in the market, this work presents a more inexpensive mechanism than the other available options, to carry out the process of supplying agricultural machines by big bags, which operation is enabled by an equipment that is attachable in the bucket of a wheel loader, by means of adaptations.