Crop Harvesting Machinery

Objectives (aimed learning outcome)?

The objective is to offer to the student the knowledge to enable him/her to:

  • Recognise the machinery, their parts and their function
  • Tomakethenecessaryadjustmentsandevaluatetheworkofthemachineforsuccessiveharvesting
  • To estimate the losses during mechanical harvesting
  • To supervise the maintenance and the repair of the machines.

 

 

Code (Course ID)

Επ. Ε4 ΒΚ1012

Semester

8th (spring)

Type

Elective

Level

Advanced (or Core – Basic)

Hours per week

2(lecture)+1(laboratory)= 3

Hours per semester

3 hours Χ 13 weeks

Other prerequisites

No

Teaching method

Lectures, laboratory, field work

Teaching language

Greek

 

Instructor

Name

Theofanis Gemtos

Teaching Rank

Professor

Office

Laboratory of Farm mechanisation

Tel. / e-mail

+302421093228 / gemtos@agr.uth.gr

Other Teaching Staff

Spyros Fountas, Assistant Professor of farm Mechanisation

 

Contents

Lecture

  1. Combine harvesters
  2. Hay harvesting machinery
  3. Silage making machinery
  4. Cotton pickers
  5. Sugar beet harvesters
  6. Potatoes harvesters
  7. Vegetable harvesting machinery and aids including processing tomatoes harvesting
  8. Fruit harvesting machinery
  9. Laboratories
  10. Hay harvesting
  11. Cotton harvesting

·         They are carried out in the University farm or with visits in the fields

 

Assessment

Lectures

     Final written exams                                                                                                        60%

     Written assay (report)                                                                                                    20%

Activity during the lessons                                                                                                   20%

Laboratory

     Oral exams                                                                                                                   100%

 

Suggested Bibliography

CIGR Handbook of Agricultural Engineering Volume III: Plant Production Engineering, 660 pages
Srivastava A.K. C.E. Goering, R.P. Rohrbach (1993) Engineering Principles of Agricultural Machines ASAE Textbook 6, ASAE, Michigan pp 601

C. Tsatsarelis  (2005)  Mechanical Harvesting of Crops Thessaloniki.