DEVELOPMENT OF A SEMI-AUTOMATED TOBACCO STRIPPING MACHINE UTILIZING STRING TRIMMERS

DEVELOPMENT OF A SEMI-AUTOMATED TOBACCO STRIPPING MACHINE UTILIZING STRING TRIMMERS

Conventional stripping of burley tobacco is labor intensive and typically requires 50 to 75 worker hours per acre (wkr•hr/ac). The goal of the project was to reduce labor by optimizing leaf removal by string trimmer heads using combinations of strings lengths and motor speeds. In tests conducted on...

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Main Author: Sperry, Robert George
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2011
Subjects:
Tobacco
Engineering
Leaf Removal
Tobacco Stripping Machine
Tobacco Mechanization
Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering
Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/89
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1083&context=gradschool_theses

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