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A Seven-row Seedling Transplanter for Nursery Use

In some of the cooler areas of-the United States, which have short growing seasons, it is necessary to produce transplanted stock in the nursery to achieve desirable field planting results. Increased cost of labor in the past decade has made the transplanting by hand uneconomical, and machine methods have had to be developed. At the Bessey Nursery, a typical production schedule calls for 3 1/2 to 4 million transplants. For a transplanting job of this size, it was necessary to develop a machine to reduce unit costs and still accomplish satisfactory seedling transplanting. Several different types of planters have been used in nurseries throughout the United States to accomplish this job. Some have been mounted directly on the tractor, and some have been self-propelled such as the Holland seedling planter. Our present equipment was designed for a seven-row bed with 7-inch spacing between the rows. Therefore, we were interested in developing a seven-row transplanting machine that retained this spacing. A farm machinery company furnished blueprints of their five- and six-row models, which were a great help.


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Author(s): Sidney H. Hanks

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 53 (1962)