Farmer’s evaluation of a rolling canvas prototype against his own system for ha...

• Autor(es): Almeida, Arlindo ; Peça, José ; Pinheiro, Anacleto ; Dias, António ; Santos, Luís S.S. dos ; Lopes, João ; Gomes, José
• Data: 2008
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/4299
• Origem: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Assunto(s): Olives; Mechanical harvesting; ±400 trees/ha
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

An olive grower was invited to organise a full day harvesting test based on two rolling canvas prototypes, using his own trunk shaker, tractors and labour. This paper reports the results observed, making also a comparison with the usual harvesting method followed by the farmer, based on a trunk shaker and canvas manually placed under the trees. Results show that the rolling canvas based system has got a slightly higher work rate, and according to the workers, is less demanding in terms of physical effort.