DETERMINATION OF THE TIME FOR A SINGLE FEEDING PROCEDURE WITH A MOBILE MIXER-DISTRIBUTOR

Abstract

The work considers the problems to select a mobile mixer-distributor regarding the conditions of a farm. It also determines technical and technological factors which effects on the time for a single feeding procedure with a mobile mixer-distributor are the greatest. The graph of mobile mixer-distributor conditions is examined in the process of making and distributing feed mixtures on a dairy cattle farm. There are the data on computer modeling of the time for a single feeding procedure with a mobile mixer-distributor taking into account the likely character of time balance constituents and different conditions of the distributor performance. The paper estimates the effect of mixer-distributor performance conditions on the time for a single feeding procedure. It is identified that to purchase mixer-distributors with lifting power over 10,000 kg is not reasonable even for high livestock population; to increase the norm of feed mixtures distribution does not result in the same increase in the time for feeding. Every 100 m increase in the average distance between feed storage houses accounts for 10 % increase averaged over the time for a single feeding procedure. Such parameters as the time to cope with technical refuse, collecting the data on the technological disturbance and the time to do away with the technological disturbance influence the likely time for a single feeding procedure within the limits from7 to 10 %.