Fruit harvester machine SEMEK 1000

self-propelledtowed

The mechanical self-propelled harvester SEMEK 1000 is suitable for the gathering of hazelnuts, chestnuts, walnuts, macadamias, almonds, pecan nuts. Its employment permits a higher harvesting speed in comparison with the aspiration system, with a good final cleaning of the collected product; however it requires regular grounds, very levelled and well prepared by mulcher. The self-propelled harvester SEMEK works thanks to the principle of the mechanical gathering of shell fruits from the ground. The machine is equipped with a propulsion system with 3 driving wheels, 2 front and 1 rear, with hydraulic transmission, and with mixed hydraulic / mechanical transmission (belts and chains) for the mechanical elements motion; it is motorised with a water-cooled diesel engine. The product fallen to the ground is windrowed by 2 front contra-rotating brushes (1) (width from 2,40 to 3,40 metres) made of rubber scraper elements supported by radial oscillating arms (FACMA PATENT). The product is transferred towards a central mechanical harvester (2) (working width: 1 metre, adjustable in height) composed of rotating rubber blades, which lift the products and send them towards a conveyor belt. In this phase the soil is immediately eliminated thanks to the debris separation auger (3), which unloads it laterally on the ground.