Farm Mechanisation

Objectives (aimed learning outcome)?

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

  • Recognise farm machinery, their parts and their function
  • To use them for the appropriate tasks in the field
  • Tomakethenecessaryadjustmentsandevaluatetheworkofthemachineforsuccessiveharvesting

To supervise the maintenance and the repair of the machines.

 

Farm Mechanisation

Code (Course ID)

ΦΖ0503

Semester

7th(winter)

Type

Compulsory

Level

Core – Basic

Hours per week

2(lecture)+2(laboratory)= 4

Hours per semester

4 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

Lectures

1.      Farm tractors: Technical specifications, Internal combustion engines: Parts and function.

2.      Farm tractor systems: Power transmission chain: clutch, gear box, differential, final transmissions.

3.      Farmtractorsystems: Electrical, Hydraulic, tractiondevelopment and use.

4.      Soiltillageandtillagemachinery

5.      Primary tillage machinery.

6.      Seedbedpreparationmachinery- Machinery using power through PTO.

7.      Drillingmachinery.

8.      Planting machinery, transplanting machinery.

9.      Fertilizers, hoeing and thinning machinery

10.  Plant protection equipment

 

Laboratories

1.  Recognitionofpartsoffarmtractor, drivingandsafetyduringworkinthefield and in the road

2.  Farm implements: Types, connection to the tractor

3.  Tillagemachinery

4.  Cropestablishmentmachinery

5.  Fertilisars, sprayers

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  (1997)  Farm tractors Thessaloniki in Greek

C. Tsatsarelis  (2000) Principles of soil tillage and crop establishment Thessaloniki in Greek