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Field Study With Full Size Combine Harvesters<br />

An analysis of variance was carried out for all the DBD data and showed that there were<br />

significant fixed effects from the treatment itself, the soil type, the depth at which the<br />

probe was taken and a significant interaction between the treatment and the soil type.<br />

Analyzing the data with respect to the overall effect of the treatment across all soil types<br />

showed that all treatments were significantly different from the control, yet there are no<br />

significant differences between the treatments. The estimated densities for the treatments<br />

were in corresponding order as the soil bin results and the results previously discussed.<br />

Table 20 shows the summary of this data.<br />

Table 20: DBD for field treatments, statistically identical DBD followed by the same<br />

letter<br />

Treatment Estimated DBD (g/cc) SE DF<br />

Control 1.352 a 0.0198 29<br />

High Inflation Pressure 1.518 b 0.0214 29<br />

Normal Inflation Pressure 1.517 b 0.0171 29<br />

Tracked Machine 1.499 b 0.0171 29<br />

The fixed effect of the soil type over all treatments showed a significant difference for both<br />

sandy loam soils from the clay treatment. The results from subsoiled and shallow tilled<br />

sandy loam were statistically identical which lead to the conclusion that the sandy loam<br />

soil had been compacted to a similar final state, indifferent from their initial density (data<br />

shown in Table 21). This was confirmed when looking at the penetrometer resistance in<br />

Figure 59 whereby the final penetrometer resistance was identical for the wheeled machine<br />

on both the shallow tilled and the subsoiled part of the sandy loam, but the track could<br />

maintain the subsoiled sandy loam at a lower final penetrometer resistance.<br />

Table 21: DBD for soil types and, statistically identical DBD followed by the same<br />

letter<br />

Soil Type Estimated DBD SE DF<br />

Clay Shallow Tilled 1.318 a 0.017 29<br />

Sandy Loam Subsoiled 1.551 b 0.016 29<br />

Sandy Loam Shallow Tilled 1.546 b 0.016 29<br />

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

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