[Market-farming] Mechanical Transplanter

Bill Bradshaw billbradshaw at hughes.net
Wed Apr 22 10:26:21 EDT 2009


Bill, isn't it wonderful how great minds think a like.LOL
 I can tell we both been there and done that. Bill (Texas)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak at illinois.edu>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Mechanical Transplanter


> Is it a finger-type transplanter, where the person sitting on the 
> transplanter places the transplant in the open fingers as they come around 
> the wheel? I haven't used one in a long time but I remember having to have 
> a consistent approach, placing the transplant in the same place in the 
> finger each time. The setting just adjust for how far the fingers make it 
> into the furrow. If the transplants aren't set into the fingers in the 
> same position each time, the plants will be set at different depths.
>
> Bill
>
>
>>
>>We bought a used one row tobacco setter. We are trying to use it on our 
>>flower and vegetable transplants. It either barely sets the plants, and 
>>won't cover the root ball, or buries them. We have adjusted everything 
>>that we can think of and we still can't get it right.
>>Any suggestions? We have more rain coming this weekend and we're getting a 
>>little frantic trying to get everything planted.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any help,
>>Carla Maness
>>Perkins, OK
>>
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