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Design, Construction, And Evaluation Of An Almond End-Row Nut Sweeper, Andrew J. Mancini
Design, Construction, And Evaluation Of An Almond End-Row Nut Sweeper, Andrew J. Mancini
BioResource and Agricultural Engineering
This senior project discusses the design, construction, and evaluation of an almond end-row nut sweeper. The sweeper attached to the three-point hitch of a John Deere orchard tractor using a Category 2 hitch and was used to sweep nuts back into the orchard after they had been swept into windrows. This system worked by utilizing the tractor hydraulics to power an 18 inch diameter cylinder brush.
Proper field testing of the implement could not be done during the academic year in which this project was constructed since this implement was designed to be used as part of the California almond …