Combine Harvester is Industrial Miracle

The combine harvester commonly used by farmers for wheat harvesting is actually an industrial miracle that can rival shield tunneling machines and aerospace rockets? Why does this device, which sounds a bit outdated, have such a high status?

Just imagine that if the rainstorm is coming soon, millions of acres of mature wheat will be harvested in the field, and the wheat will rot in the field one step later, and the farmers' hard work of a year will be wasted. The traditional manual sickle harvesting mode has extremely low efficiency and is completely unable to adapt to emergency harvesting needs. Until humans created the combine harvester, which completely changed the traditional farming model.

Harvesters come in different sizes. The representative of large-scale models is the German Krass 8700 combine harvester. Its front cutting platform has a maximum width of 12.3 meters, with a single harvesting coverage equivalent to the width of a two-way four lane road surface, suitable for large-scale contiguous wheat field operations. Its full storage capacity is 18000 liters, and it can process an average of 94 tons of grain per hour, harvesting thousands of acres in a day. And the loss rate per acre is only 1%. But this type of harvester has a large body size and is only used on large-scale farms in contiguous plains such as Xinjiang and Northeast China in China.

In areas with concentrated retail farmland such as the Central Plains and Jiangnan, the commonly used harvester is the domestically produced Lovol Valley God harvester manufactured by Foton Heavy Industries. The body width of the Lovol Valley God harvester is controlled within 4 meters, suitable for small field operations. It can process nearly 20 kilograms of grain per second, and the agricultural work that used to be busy for days can now be completed in a few hours. Completely rewriting the traditional farming model, it can be called an industrial miracle.

And what better reflects its industrial miracle is the miraculous operating principle. If you have personally peeled wheat, you know how difficult it is to remove the outer shell. The combine harvester can complete the threshing of crops in the blink of an eye, which is more complete than manual peeling and grinding.