Effect of labor saving by crawler-type truck in steep slope orchards

  • Tsurusaki, T. (Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime Universitry) ;
  • Yamashita, J. (Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime Universitry) ;
  • Imoto, T. (Shikoku Research Institute Incorporated) ;
  • Satou, K. (Tokushima Technical Junior College) ;
  • Hikita, M. (Takamatsu National College of Technology)
  • Published : 1991.10.01

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to investigate, from the viewpoint of labor science, the effect of labor saving by crawler-type truck, which has been used for the rationalization of transportation labor in the citrus orchard on steep slops, and to find out how effectively to utilize the crawler-type truck. In order to attain the purpose mentioned above, portable heart rate memory for measuring physical response of laborer was taken, and the experiment was carried out in the citrus orchard on steep slopes in Japan.

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