Wheeled tractor equipped with a mechanism for changing the ground clearance

Abstract

In accordance with the agricultural row-crops cultivation practices adopted in the Central Asian region, machine-tractor units carry out a large number of passes through the field during the growing season. Consequently, individual sections of the fields are repeatedly affected by the running systems of these machines, which negatively affects soil fertility. The universal row-crop tractors used in cotton production have two types of wheel arrangements: 3W2 and 4W2. Consequently, these arrangements have different natures and magnitude of impact on the soil. Despite a number of advantages of 4-wheeled tractors due to insufficient agrotechnical clearance under the front and rear axles beam, they are not used for inter-row cotton cultivation. Mechanisms including a stepless change in ground clearance, both for the front and rear axles of a 4-wheeled tractor, eliminate these disadvantages and thereby expand the possibilities of their use. The use of a 4-wheeled tractor in field and transport operations has shown that the most loaded parts in the developed mechanism for changing the clearance of the rear axle are rolling supports of the cage on the casing of the rear axle of the tractor.