Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5552/crojfe.2021.844
Ground Pressure Changes Caused by MHT 8002HV Crawler Harvester Chassis
Mariusz Kormanek
; University of Agriculture in Krakow Faculty of Forestry Department of Forest Utilization Engineering and Forest Technology Al. 29 Listopada 46, Krakow 31-423 POLAND
Jiří Dvořák
; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences Institute of Forest Use of Forest Engineering and Technology Kamycka 1176 165 21 Prague 6 – Suchdol CZECH REPUBLIC
Abstract
Ground contact pressures exerted by elements of the machine chassis on the ground in the forest are associated with the machine impact on the soil during its operation. In the case of a crawler system, determining the ground contact pressure appears simple, which is not entirely true. The aim of the study was to analyze the loads on the ground (forest soil) exerted by the MHT 8002HV crawler harvester chassis. The measurements were made in Forest School Enterprise in Kostelec nad Černými Lesy, Central Bohemia Region in the Czech Republic, on brown soil made of clay on stony formations, fresh mixed mountain forest (FMMF), with the use of a hydraulic scale when extending the harvester crane forward along and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the machine. The calculations were carried out with a simulated load of the crane on the tree in question, assuming that the impact on the ground of the crawler system is heterogeneous and that the point impact comes from the crawler support wheels. As it was shown, the average ground contact pressures under the crawler track of the analyzed harvester generally do not exceed 70 kPa. The crane extension with a simulated load, which would have caused the crawler track to act on the ground with an average pressure exceeding 70 kPa, was limited by machine stability. On the other hand, high ground contact pressures may occur under a more loaded section of the crawler track if the active length of the crawler track is shortened. As it was shown in the case of a weak track tension, the course of ground contact pressures exerted on the soil deviates from the assumed usually homogeneous impact over the entire length of the crawler.
Keywords
crawler tractor, ground contact pressure, forest soil, track tension
Hrčak ID:
255254
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Publication date:
6.4.2021.
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