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  • From: Steve Diver <steved AT ipa.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] vacuum & template flat seeder
  • Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:43:31 -0600 (GMT-06:00)

Hi Janet -

Here's some quick references / links / ideas:

Instructions for Building Poor Boy Tobacco Seeders
University of Tennessee
http://tobacco.tennessee.edu/research/poorboy.html
_____ Basically a homemade version of sliding
plexi-glass template seeder; see pics

Also see:

ABC Quick Seeder
http://www.abcquickseeder.com/
_____ sliding acrylic templates; seeder system

Seed E-Z Seeder
http://www.sezsdr.com/prod.htm
_____ small vacuum seeder

The good news for market farmers is that you're
back working for ATTRA.

Very best regards,

Steve Diver
Texas


>Janet Bachmann wrote
>
>Somewhere I saw a construction plan for making a box-shaped, vacuum
>powered seeder. It included a plate with holes that corresponded to
>cells in flats, and sized so that seeds would not pass through the
>holes. When a vacuum was applied to one side of the plate, a seed would
>be held to each hole. The plate would then be held over the flat,
>vacuum shut off, and the seeds would fall into place. A number of
>dealers have vacuum seeders for sale, but I would like to find the
>make-it-yourself plan.









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