Design and Development of Modified Bullock Cart
Keywords:
bullocks, bullock cart, animal drudgery, spring damper mechanism, animal drudgeryAbstract
Bullock and bullock cart plays an important role in every farm related activity since long history. With the
advancement in technology the farming methods and equipment shows the drastic improvement. But there is no any
sufficient improvement is carried out in the animal driven carts used in agriculture activities. The conventional design of
cart results in animal drudgery while operating, it affects the neck and limbs of the bullock. This results in hampering the
efficiency of bullock.
In this paper an attempt is made to improve the structure and functional ability of bullock cart. The spring damper
mechanism is used to reduce the animal drudgery which leads to overall improvement of efficiency of bullock cart with
the reduction of effort required to drive the cart.
