Fabrication and evaluation of mounted harvesting machine for sugarcane

Abstract Sugarcane is one of the important sugar crops in the world that depends on it in many industries, so we have fabricated and evaluated a machine for harvesting sugarcane to saves time, labors and costs necessary for harvesting, which is reflected in production and reduces costs. This harvester was designed for mounted on a small tractor and the single-row machine harvesting meets the functional requirements of the physical properties of the sugarcane. The performance of the harvester machine was evaluated on one shapes of cutter disc, three forward speeds and three cutter disc speeds. The results demonstrated that the average forward speed of 5 km/h, the average cutter disc speed 2000 rpm produced the lowest sugarcane losses while producing the highest power requirements and operating cost than other studied forward speeds and cutter disc speeds. It turns out that the fabricated mechanical harvester machine did not do major harm to the sugarcane and less than 6.38 % losses. Operating a sugarcane harvesting machine at optimal conditions saves time, labors and costs compared to common methods of manual harvesting.