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Dick Godwin
Presentation1 Tillage Machine Principles
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Outline
• Effect of implement shape Depth/Width
• Rake Angle • Speed • Wings • Shallower tines • Spacing • Discs • Mouldboard Ploughs • Concluding comments
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Implement geometry and soil disturbance
2 key factors: 1.Rake angle 2.Depth/width ratio
After: Godwin, 1974
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Soil disturbance by a vertical tine
25mm wide 215mm deep
After: Godwin, 1974
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Soil failure patterns
Depth/width = < 0.5 > 1 to < 6 >6
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90o
After: Payne and Tanner, 1959
Effects of rake angle on crescent geometry
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Effect of rake angle on soil forces
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22.5 45 67.5 90 112.5
RAKE ANGLE (degrees)
FOR
CE
(kN
)
DRAUGHT
VERTICAL
UPWARD
DOWNWARD
After: Godwin 1974
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Effect of depth on soil forces
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0 50 100 150 200
DEPTH (mm)
FOR
CE
(kN
)
DRAUGHT
VERTICAL
After: Godwin 1974
UPWARD
DOWNWARD
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Effect of speed
After: Wheeler and Godwin, 1996
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Forc
e, k
N Horizontal force
Vertical force
UPWARD
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Low Vertical High
Direction of travel
Operation: Loosening Sorting Compacting Cutting Disintegrating Disintegrating Inverting Rearranging Smoothing Consolidating e.g.: Chisel tines Harrows - drag Rollers Plough shares - power Scrubber boards Bulldozer blades Pneumatic tyres
Soil surface
After: Spoor, 1968
Selection of implement rake angle for tillage operations
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Direction of travel
Soil surface
Soil failure planes Undisturbed soil
Critical depth
Soil surface
Compacted zone
a.
b.
Soil failure and critical depth
Side view Cross section
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Mole ploughs
Mole drains connect clay soils with perched water tables to gravel backfill over existing tile/plastic drains
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Soil failure
Horizontal cracks
After: Spoor and Godwin, 1978
Herringbone cracks
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Deep tine - 45o leg cracks
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Lateral failure - Mole plough
Horizontal cracks
After: Spoor and Godwin, 1978
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Soil surface
Wing
Tension cracks
Lift height
Soil flow
Direction of travel
Godwin and Spoor, 2015
<-‐Tension crack
<-‐Horizontal crack
Addition of Wings
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Effects of winged tines
Shear plane
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Total soil disturbance
Tip
Wing
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Effect of wings
Draught 20.43 kN 26.58 kN Disturbed area 0.098 m2 0.184 m2
Specific resistance 208 kN/m2 144 kN/m2
After: Spoor & Godwin, 1978
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2.5 d 1.6 d
d 0.6 d
Rear view Side view
Godwin and Spoor, 2015
Leading shallow tines
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Leading shallow tines
After: Spoor & Godwin, 1978
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Soil disturbance
After: Spoor & Godwin 1978
Plus shallow leading tines
Wings only
Draught Force
(tonnes)
Area of disturbance
(m2)
Specific resistance
(tonnes/m2)
2.39 0.24 9.6
2.35 0.42 5.4
Similar: Almost double: 45% reduction
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Effects of tine spacing
Spacing
Too close
Optimum
Too wide
After: Godwin, Spoor and Soomro, 1984
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Multiple tine spacing
• Simple tines = 1.5 x depth of work
• Winged tines = 2.0 x depth of work
• Winged tines + = 2. 5 x depth of work (of shallow leading tines deeper tine)
After: Spoor & Godwin, 1978
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Effects of depth
d
2cm
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Subsoiler – Draught forces
Subsoiling after tracks at 350mm 88hp
Subsoiling after tyres at 450mm 240 hp
After: Ansorge and Godwin, 2007
63% Reduction
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Disc settings
< Passive soil failure
Scrubbing – compressive soil failure >
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0 20 40 60 80 100Disc sweep angle, deg
Dra
ught
forc
e, k
NEffect of sweep angle on draught force
After. Godwin, Sieg and Allott, 1987
Measured Predicted
Optimum
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no discs,
tines @ 150mm,
plus wings,
no packer.
discs @ 60mm,
tines @ 100mm,
plus wings,
hard packer.
discs @ 60mm,
tines @ 150m,
no wings,
no packer.
discs @ 60mm,
tines @ 100mm,
plus wings,
no packer.
Implement adjustment Clod size distribution and residue levels
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Black Grass Control by Cultivation
102 108 5 27 72 199
Black Grass Ears/m2
All Drilled12th October 25th September
lsd 8.38%, cv =17.8%
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1. A plough anywhere in the system reduces black grass numbers. 2. Use good ploughing techniques. Poor ploughing is of little help as it
will not bury the weed seeds. 3. Ploughing for a second year brings resistant black grass seeds back
to the surface too soon for effective control. 4. Good ploughing followed by 2 years of direct drilling has reduced
black grass and increased yields. 5. Continual direct drilling or shallow min till allows black grass numbers
to increase. These systems work well if a good stale seedbed is achieved first and the herbicide chemistry works well.
6. With resistance issues, cultivations are having a greater effect on black grass control than current pre and post–emergence chemical options.
Black Grass Control by Cultivation
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Mouldboard plough adjustment
http://www.agrii.co.uk/blog/2013/10/24/the-good-ploughing-guide-from-agrii-and-lemken/
• Work deep enough to bury all weed seeds
• Set skimmers to the correct depth
• Fully invert furrow slice
• Use a slatted mouldboard if soil is sticky
• Use a press to close the furrow
• Ensure the line of draft enables the tractor to pull effectively with the tractor on the land when ploughing with larger ploughs.
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Conclusions
1. The effect of changes in geometry and speed on soil disturbance and soil-implement forces for a range of tillage tools are understood.
2. Minimising the draught force is not always the main issue and the correct “job” is the key requirement.
3. Reducing the magnitude of the specific resistance (draught force/disturbance) is a better indicator of overall tillage efficiency.
4. However, to minimise draught reduce both depth and rake angle (where possible).
5. Most tillage machines are designed to be adjusted!
6. Do not work with excessively worn implements.
7. Ploughs can be effective in managing Black Grass. Photo Courtesy: Philip Wright