Abstract:Aiming to address the problems of easy clogging and high damage rate during the digging process of green onion harvesting, a harvesting scheme integrating digging, soil shaking, clamping and conveying processes and its working principle were determined, and a combined green onion harvester adapted to the ridge cultivation mode of green onions was designed. The machine adopted a digging device combining rotary tillage blades and a digging shovel; the rotary tillage blades cut and threw soil to remove most of the excess soil from green onion ridges, which can effectively reduce the digging resistance of the digging shovel during operation. An eccentric soil shaking mechanism was employed to effectively solve the soil accumulation problem, and a torsion mechanism was designed to facilitate the subsequent laying of green onions. Based on theoretical analysis and simulation tests, the structures and parameters of key devices such as the digging, soil shaking, clamping and conveying devices were determined. Taking damage rate, impurity rate and loss rate as the test indexes, and the rotational speed of the eccentric wheel, the amplitude of the soil shaking grid and the inclination angle of the clamping belt as the test factors, a three-factor and three-level orthogonal test was designed to optimize the parameters and obtain the optimal parameter combination, which was then verified by field tests. The test results showed that when the rotational speed of the eccentric wheel was 295 r/min, the amplitude of the soil shaking grid was 28 mm and the inclination angle of the clamping belt was 38°, the damage rate, impurity rate and loss rate of the self-propelled combined green onion harvester reached 1.41%, 3.02% and 0.44%, respectively, which met the requirements of low-damage mechanized harvesting of green onions.