machinery. Experiments were also conducted by placing the
sphere inside the transportation boxes. They revealed strong
compressions and impacts especially during pallet lifting and
transportation. Figure 6 shows a graph of the compression on
fruit during a silo filling experiment. During the first minutes
of filling the silo, the graph shows individual impacts from the
fruit. After the formation of layers of fruit, the load cell receives
constant compression. This method of using spherical load
cells to measure compression and create an impact analysis on
fruits is very useful in developing better methods of handling
agricultural products that are compressible in post-harvest
agricultural activities.