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Alleviation of Soil Compaction<br />

Spec. Draught force and loosend area follow in general the equations:<br />

Loosened Area = a * Working Depth b<br />

Spec.Draught Force = c * Working Depth<br />

Eq. 4<br />

whereby a, b, and c are empirically determined constants; i.e. for a sandy loam soil in this<br />

condition the values are approximately 1.4, 1.15, and 0.1-0.4, respectively. The linear rela-<br />

tionship between working depth and spec. draught force was mentioned by Spoor and<br />

Godwin (1978).Eq. 4 can be substituted in Eq. 3 to express absolute draught force depend-<br />

ing on working depth.<br />

From the profiles gained in the experiment the loosened area was estimated if the subsoiler<br />

tine ran 100 mm deeper. This gave three data points for each the track and the tyre enabel-<br />

ing the fit of a regression curve to determine the relationship of depth to loosened area.<br />

Knowing from Spoor and Godwin (1978) that specific draught force increases linearly with<br />

depth, the single draught force measurement for each treatment in section 5.2 was suffi-<br />

cient to derive a regression line.<br />

It was possible to determine the following graph showing absolute draught force depending<br />

on working depth by substituting these empirically gained equations into Eq. 3:<br />

Draft Force (kN)<br />

45<br />

40<br />

35<br />

30<br />

25<br />

20<br />

15<br />

10<br />

5<br />

0<br />

0 100 200 300 400 500 600<br />

Depth (mm)<br />

Ph.D. Thesis Dirk Ansorge (2007)<br />

Tyre<br />

Track<br />

Figure 63: Draught force vs. depth for a subsoiler tine after the pass of a tracked and<br />

a wheeled combine harvester<br />

From the penetrometer resistance for different undercarriage systems in Figure 28 the ap-<br />

propriate working depth on such a loose soil to alleviate the compaction caused by the pass<br />

of a combine harvester was set to 350 mm for the track as here the shape of the curve did<br />

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