Harvesting of crop is one of the most important operation which demand considerable amount of labor. During harvesting season, the accessible and the charge of the labor are the serious problem. The unexpected and sudden change in weather and labor shortage causes more losses to the farmer. Because of this reason it has become necessary to adopt mechanical methods so that a schedule of activities in harvesting operation could be ensure. In recent years the use of mechanical harvesting device by the farmers have increased. Crops are harvested by farmers by using reapers and combines. But, for the small-scale farmers the use of combines is not affordable since they are costly. Even though some manually operated reapers were developed. But, because of some disadvantages not a single of them became popular as the power which was available for transportation of the machine as well as cutting and conveying of the crop was not enough.
The crop harvesting machine can be used to carry out harvesting process at a faster rate compare to manual harvesting process that to with fewer efforts. The number of labors required for harvesting is much reduced and also this machine reduces backbone injury that occur in manual harvesting process. Blades which are mounted at the front are used to cut the crop and the conveyor transfer it to the roller for threshing process. The blades, roller and the frame are made up GI because it imparts greater strength to withstand the load and it also possess greater anti-corrosive properties which are essential while working in fields.
The project was completed in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of BE in Mechanical Engineering by Rohan Bandekar, Vivek Falkar, Shubham Fulari, Nehal Ghadi under the guidance of Prof. Saish Rivankar for the academic year 2018-19.
