QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SOIL RIDGE FORMATION WHEN SOWING TILLED CROPS
A hillock drill was desighned, an application of which makes cost-effectively in one pass to perform sowing cultivation, sowing the seeds, form a soil mound above sown seeds, compact the soil mound from three sides and, finally, form a soil ridge of required dimensions and density in it. The article was justified the attack angles of flat disk of the working unit and the spherical roller-discs of roller-ridger of hillock drill. It was revealed, that the process of soil ridges forming of required dimensions and density at seeding tilled-crops are affected by structural and operational parameters of working units with flat discs and the roller-ridges, as well as the physical and mechanical properties of the soil.