HEADER FOR CUTTING AGRICULTURAL CROPS ON THE ROOT
The article describes a variant of the patented design of the reaper for harvesting crops on the root. The main machine in the harvesting process is the combine. From an energy point of view, modern combine harvesters are extremely inefficient. 70-80 % of energy is spent for useless deformation and displacement of the straw mass. To increase the productivity of the combine harvester, reduce its dimensions, weight, simplify the design of the threshing and separating device, it is necessary to exclude the ingress of straw into the combine harvester. Then the combine harvester will have to work only with grain and spikelets, the volume of which is several times less than the volume of straw. The breakthrough direction when creating a combine harvester of the new generation should be the towing of plants at the root. The combing header can be the key adapter of the combine harvester of the new generation. To date, Ukr.Agro-Service, the Ukrainian machine-building enterprise produces Slavyanka single-drum stripping reapers, and the PenzMash OJSC plant in Russia produces production batches of the Ozon sweeping reaper. Both headers are not fully correspond to the implementation of the process and can not harvest soybeans.