Design and development of a date harvesting machine

Existing date harvesting machines are vehicles equipped with a long arm to lift a man on a platform to harvest the fruits. The arm and the vehicle are heavy (4 to 8 tonnes), expensive (from £16 000) and are not sufficiently manoeuvrable in constricted date groves. Most dates in the main producing co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shamsi, Mohsen
Other Authors: Kilgour, John
Published: Cranfield University 1998
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251530