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Experimental Methods<br />

Combine Harvester Lane<br />

Direction of Travel<br />

1 2 3 4 5<br />

Subsoiled<br />

Working Direction<br />

Shallow Tilled<br />

Measurement Plot<br />

Figure 5: Sandy loam field layout, with shallow tilled and subsoiled parts<br />

Combine Harvester Lane<br />

Direction of Travel<br />

1 2<br />

Figure 6: Clay field layout<br />

3 4 5<br />

Shallow Tilled<br />

Measure ment Plot<br />

Due to very wet weather conditions and the fact that the combine harvesters need to run<br />

with their grain tank open when harvesting or filled with grain, the variations were reduced<br />

to only those with an empty grain tank. As a consequence the plots originally created for<br />

the treatment with a full grain tank were converted to a replication of the empty grain tank<br />

in the same field. During data analysis this proved to be sensible due to the high variation<br />

of the measured parameters in the field and the increased amount of data points to<br />

strengthen the statistical analysis. A full grain tank would have added 6 – 7 t to the total<br />

weight of the machines depending on moisture content of the grain.<br />

The left track of a machine (looking in travel direction) was always chosen for the meas-<br />

urement to avoid errors from load differences between the left and right of the machine<br />

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

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