Traffic intensity in fields and technical possibilities for reduction of machinery passes

• Published in: Engineering for rural development no. 13/2014; pp. 216 - 220
• Main Authors: Masek, J., Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic), Kroulik, M., Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic), Chyba, J., Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic), Novak, P., Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic), Kumhala, F., Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic)
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Jelgava (Latvia) Latvia University of Agriculture 2014
• Subjects: CAMPO; CHAMP; CIRCULATION; COMPACTACION DEL SUELO; COMPACTAGE DU SOL; CZECH REPUBLIC; EQUIPO DE LA EXPLOTACION AGRARIA; FARM EQUIPMENT; FIELDS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_12103; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_25753; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_2894; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_33095; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_36733; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_37947; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_7163; LATVIA; LETONIA; LETTONIE; MATERIEL AGRICOLE; REPUBLICA CHECA; REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE; SISTEMA DE POSICIONAMIENTO GLOBAL; SOIL COMPACTION; SYSTEME DE POSITIONNEMENT GLOBAL; TRAFFIC; TRAFICO
• ISSN: 1691-5976; 1691-5976

Machinery traffic monitoring and detailed analysis of machine passes across a field can be a tool for the field area determination which is excessively loaded with tire contacts. Excessive traffic is connected with soil compaction phenomena and its unfavourable effects. Also passes arrangement in fields is usually without any system and therefore random and GPS with a particular traffic system can help soil protection. A very simple equipment to monitor the vehicle trajectory was placed into every machine which entered the selected fields during one cropping season. Further, together with the data obtained and the tyre widths, the total area wheeled by the machinery was counted. The following facts were found out during our research. The system with ploughing showed up to 86.14 % of the total area covered with wheel passes, the conservation tillage system showed 63.75 % of the area affected by wheeling. To sum up the results, enormous intensity of agriculture machinery passes, when talking about random traffic in fields, was revealed. The results from our measurements on the CTF experimental plots using conservation tillage are as follows. Three systems with different machinery working widths were observed. Intensity of the wheeled area decreased when using a 4 m CTF system up to 37 % of the total run-over area. With 6 m machinery working width system the wheeled area was 33 % and when using 8 m system the wheeled area was only 31 %.