INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF HARVESTING POTATOES
The article proves that the digging working body of the potato harvester has low agrotechnical performance indicators, which directly affect the productivity, quality of the harvested tubers, work and resistivity of the harvesting unit. The author proposes to use a bar digging working body which allows to reduce the volume of soil transferred to the elevators, which in turn improves the separation of the pile, and the tubers after the passage of the unit are not covered with soil coming off the conveyor. In addition, the bar working body allows the harvesting machine to work within the limits of agrotechnical requirements, eliminating injuries and losses of tubers, improving the aggregate composition of the soil, as well as reducing its specific traction resistance and increasing productivity.