Design and construction of a harvesting safflower petals machine

%60, %50 and %40 that machine could harvest all petals in any stage completely although done
tests for studding effect of moisture content on required harvest force was significant at %1.
Some factors were determined as an economic analysis which has come in table (1).
Table 1: Economic analysis
Item
Harvester Hand collection
machine
1 Cost of machine ($) 183 -
2 Labor cost ($/day) 30 30
3 Petal collection (kg/day) 2.3 0.35
4 Petal collection ( /day) 328 49
5 Fuel charges ($/day) 11 (20 Lit) -
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