CLEANING OF CONCRETE-LINED CHANNELS WITH A LARGE CAPACITY ROTARY BUCKET

Abstract

The article deals with one of the most important problems of mechanization of rural and economic work on the state of irrigation canals and ensuring their high-quality functioning. Irrigation canals, water intakes and hydraulic structures are destructed and deformed from the natural climate and artificial factors. A large capacity bucket with shovel form equipped with roller designed for cleaning of lined canals from silting and sediment was considered. A laboratory and field studies were conducted with a model of bucket and bucket with actual size. The nature of the mutual connection between the large capacity bucket and the sediment, the optimal version of the bucket of shovel type and the diameter of the roller, as well as the influence of the digging of the sediment, in the performance of the machine and the quality of cleaning has been established.