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Seedling Harvester

To speed tree digging at Shasta Nursery, we have developed the machine shown below.- After digging two adjacent beds in the usual manner, the harvester passes over them and the trees are pulled by a crew of 4 or 5 pickers and 1 or 2 packer-trimmers riding on the machine. The pickers pull the seedlings, grade them, count them (25 or 50 to the bunch) and place them on the conveyor belt which carries them to the packers. The packers take them from the trough into which they fall from the belt, prune the roots, tie the bunch and put it into a box for removal periodically to the packing shed or heeling in beds.


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Author(s): Karl B. Lanquist

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 16 (1954)