Design of Manure Gathering Machine

For cleaning farm, among several cleaning methods, based on factors including costs, level of available technology, ease of operation and required capacity, the best method can be selected and employed. In this paper after reviewing and evaluating existing barn cleaning systems, a new method that mounted on tractors was designed. Since physical and mechanical properties of manure affect the performance of the cleaning system, some more important properties (e.g. density, moisture content, friction coefficient of manure with different surfaces) were measured. The designed interchangeable system mounted on MF285 with cleaning capacity of. A hydraulic power train was employed for the machine. The power requirement of the machine is which is provided through tractor’s power take off (PTO) shaft. This system can be attached to many existing tractors. The design of machine parts was performed based on initial ground speed of one meter per second and gathering width of two meters. With such a machine, the cleaning operation of a farm can be manipulated within 40 minutes.