Power Characteristics of Mulcher Joints When Removing Tree and Shrub Vegetation

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Abstract

In recent years, the enterprises of forestry and the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Belarus and other countries widely implemented advanced milling tools designed to chop wood, stumps and roots without immersing the cutter in the soil (mulchers) and with immersion (rotovators), which allows you to prepare the ground for planting forest crops. They can be mounted on multi-purpose tractors, loaders and excavators. At the same time, there are no methods that allow carrying out a reasonable choice of technological equipment for a particular basic machine, since a significant number of production, technological and technical factors have an impact on the emerging power and capacity parameters. The proposed method allows taking into account a significant number of variable values (working methods, speeds of various operations, parameters of the working body, its drive and base chassis, soil conditions, etc.) and simulate the interaction of milling tools under various operating conditions. It was found that the greatest loads on the mulcher rotor occur during the felling of tree and shrub vegetation, which is associated with an increase in the area of interaction between the cutters and the wood up to 2 times compared with the chopping of similar lying stands. This value can be reduced by 15–30 % depending on the diameter of the trunks being processed. In the case of a significant amount (cluster) of forest stands with a diameter of more than 10 cm, it is preferable to carry out work at a speed of about 0.2 m/s or advanced felling of these trees. The use of hydraulic travel (speed) reducers or hydrostatic transmission is promising in order to reduce dynamic loads and get better adaptability of the working equipment to natural-production conditions (the ability to work at a speed from 0 to 5 km/h). It should be noted that the installed required engine power for the milling equipment drive should be increased by 10–15 % due to the needs of the drive of various equipment located on the base chassis. Also, in the case of the integrated use of tree and shrub vegetation, it is possible to use mulchers that collect biomass; however, this will require additional energy costs. In this regard, the method can be applied when choosing the parameters of technological equipment for the existing base chassis, to solve the inverse problem, and also to select the operating mode of the milling equipment depending on the natural and production conditions with the possibility of subsequent prediction of the effectiveness of the work performed.

Authors

Sergey Ye. Ariko¹, Candidate of Engineering, Assoc. Prof.; ResearcherID: AAK-2167-2020,
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6812-8842
Sergey A. Voinash², Engineer; ResearcherID: AAK-2987-2020,
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5239-9883
Denis A. Kononovich¹, Postgraduate Student; ResearcherID: AAK-2583-2020,
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6947-0674
Viktoria A. Sokolova³, Candidate of Engineering, Assoc. Prof.;
ResearcherID: AAK-6062-2020, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6880-445X

Affiliation

¹Belarusian State Technological University, ul. Sverdlova, 13a, Minsk, 220006, Republic of Belarus; e-mail: sergeyariko@mail.ru, denkon_92@mail.ru
²Novosibirsk State Agrarian University, ul. Dobrolyubova, 160, Novosibirsk, 630039, Russian Federation; e-mail: sergey_voi@mail.ru
³St. Petersburg State Forest Engineering University named after S.M. Kirov, Institutskiy per., 5, Saint Petersburg, 194021, Russian Federation; e-mail: sokolova_vika@inbox.ru

Keywords

reforestation, chopping of tree and shrub vegetation, milling tool, mulcher, base chassis, exploitation conditions

For citation

Ariko S.Ye., Voinash S.A., Kononovich D.A., Sokolova V.A. Power Characteristics of Mulcher Joints When Removing Tree and Shrub Vegetation. Lesnoy Zhurnal [Russian Forestry Journal], 2021, no. 2, pp. 130–142. DOI: 10.37482/0536-1036-2021-2-130-142

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