ANALYSIS OF MAIN INDICATORS OF TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN POTATO HARVESTER MACHINES
Potatoes are one of the most important crops grown in the world. The effectiveness of potato depends significantly on machines to use by growing and harvesting. The main machinery for potato harvesting are potato digger, potato harvester and straw chopper to product by different firms, to differ in design and technical characteristics. The main parameters of the technical characteristics for potato harvester are the mass of machines, the engine power and bunker capacity. The purpose of the research is to analyze the main parameters of the technical characteristics for modern potato harvester in accordance their type and rows number. As further trends in the development of potato harvesters are the improving quality and productivity and the results of the analysis of the technical characteristics of modern potato harvesting machines have established further increase in engine power and mass of machines with increasing rows number of the machine and the operating width. If the potato harvester is equipped a bunker, then its capacity will increase too.