• Section of Farm Machinery

phone: +48 22 59 345 11
fax: +48 22 59 345 14
e-mail: zmr@sggw.pl

Head of Section:
prof. dr hab. inż. Czesław Waszkiewicz

Academic staff members:

prof. dr hab. inż. Jerzy Buliński, prof. dr hab. Aleksander Lisowski, prof. dr hab. inż. Czesław Waszkiewicz, dr hab. inż. Stanisław Gach, dr inż. Jacek Białek, dr inż. Jarosław Chlebowski, dr inż. Jan Kamiński, dr inż. Jacek Klonowski, dr inż. Krzysztof Kostyra, dr inż. Tomasz Nowakowski, dr inż. Adam Strużyk, dr inż. Michał Sypuła, inż. Leszek Kotecki

For many years the Section had been headed by professor Józef Kuczewski, who established the unit and organized its didactic and research activity.

The main research fields of the Section of Farm Machinery are:

• laboratory, field and exploitation investigations and testing on agricul¬tural machines produced in Poland and imported into country;
• analytical, project and design works connected with new solutions in agricultural machinery, improvement of their working units and utilization methods under various field conditions;
• laboratory and field investigations on the systems for automatic control of working processes in harvesting machinery.

Within the projects sponsored by Committee for Research Projects (KBN), the research activity carried out at the Section was connected with design, quality investigations and energetic and exploitation investigations on the green forage and root crop harvesting machinery. On that basis the model investigations on tillage implements and also on transfer and separation of the mass flow in the potato combine harvester were developed. The mass flow in the machines for green forage harvesting, with utilization of DGPS system for precision agriculture has been investigated.

The following laboratories form the basis for development of scientific activity combined with teaching tasks: equipment for feed preparation, milking equipment, testing of sprayers, tillage implement investigations, and energetic investigations on agricultural machinery.

The Section organizes annually an international symposium on "Ecological aspects of mechanization of plant production".

The Testing Laboratory established at the Section of Farm Machinery has been accredited by Polish Centre for Accreditation (AB 191 ).The Laboratory is one of the three Polish units authorized to carry out tests on agricultural equipment according to harmonized standards and directives, particularly on agricultural tractors, machines and devices, agricultural and forest implements, vehicles and tractor outfits. In recent years over 460 expertises on agricultural machines and impiemerits have been carried out in the Laboratory. Based on these expertises, these machines and implements received a B certificate (currently CE certificate).

Within the cooperation with foreign scientific centres, the staff members of the Section keep scientific contacts with re¬search institutions in Byelorussia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine.

The publication activity of staff of the Section, consisted of about 280 scientific papers published during last three years, is connected with wide technical problems in agriculture.

• Section of Forest Mechanization

phone: +48 22 59 345 23
fax: +48 22 59 345 12
e-mail: zml@sggw.pl

Head of Section:
dr inż. Witold Zychowicz

Academic staff members:

dr hab. inż. Tomasz Nurek, dr hab. inż. Janusz Sztyber, dr inż. Monika Aniszewska, dr inż. Jacek Brzózko, dr inż. Arkadiusz Gendek, dr inż. Adam Maciak, dr inż. Przemysław Murawski, dr inż. Jan Skarżyński, dr inż. Krzysztof Wójcik, dr inż. Witold Zychowicz

Engineers, technicians and administrative staff:

Małgorzata Kamińska, Janusz Snopko

For many years the Section had been head¬ed by professor Jerzy Wiesik, who created the unit and organized its research program.

Research activity in the Section of Forest Mechanization has been focused on the problems of mechanization of forest operations and includes the following groups of research projects:

• machinery for ecological model of forest husbandry. In this field the following detailed projects are being realized: investigations on driving system of powered digger, new design of undercutting device for root cuttings, vibro-acoustic method for evaluation of chain saw technical condition;
• technological processes in forestry, with consideration to ecological model of forest husbandry. In this field the following detailed projects are being realized: investigations on possibilities of application of forwarders and harvesters in Polish forests; models of technological processes of logging; investigations on tree damage during skidding at thinning sites executed with various tractors; investigations on the effect of machines on forest soil; investigations on possibilities of logging for energy purposes.

In the Section there are accommodated the specialized laboratories for forest seeds processing and forest machines, equipped with the measuring stands for: wood cutting parameters, wood and forest seed physical properties, machine noise and vibrations, and small power engine test bench. These equipment is used both in scientific and teaching activities.

Within the specialized investigations, the Section cooperates with Missisipi State University (USA), Technical University in Zwoleh and Ukrainian Forest-Technical University in Lvov.

The Section organizes scientific confer¬ences concerning forest mechanization issues.