tractor - driven Intermittent Furrow Opener for Water Harvesting Systems (Jerking Plow)

摘要

A tractor-driven intermittent furrow opener (pitting machine) that can open, on each run, half-moon-shape pits of different lengths (adjustable) on tow parallel lines that are apart at an adjustable distance achieving two discontinuous furrows, the shape of the pits is achieved by rotating commutatively the two discs about their vertical axis while plowing an angle from 0 to 40 and backward. These perfectly staggered pits produced by the machine are used for harvesting lost runoff water that follows rainfalls on hill reducing soil erosion, and for utilizing the harvested water for revegetation and combating desertification in arid regions This plowing machine with its simple design, low fabrication cost and double field capacity can replace the costly tedious manual work, the combination of manual and mechanized work using traditional plows, or the use of complicated high-cost high-power pitting machines In addition to the whole integrated design of the machine and the design of some of its components, the new technique of opening discontinuous furrows was also claimed