Transplanter

A planting machine is a device to partially or completely mechanized planting seedlings brought forward by, for example, strawberries, garden salad, cabbage, tobacco, or rice.

In the vegetable spreads are machines where a crowd draws a furrow in the ground, then the seedlings are set by an insertion device at the required distance. The Furrow, including planting is closed by subsequent pressure rollers and at the same gives the plant roots the necessary ground circuit. Commonly used as insertion devices, two obliquely to each other standing, made ​​of elastic material, rotating clamping discs between which the seedlings are inserted, or rotating rigid planting discs with snap hooks for the young plants. In both systems, the seedlings of sitting on the machine planters directly or via a turret mechanism of the insertion device to be supplied.

Planters are made ​​as either self-drive or as an attachment for a tractor. If a tractor be used as a tractor, this must have called Creeper due to the low operating speeds in the range of some 100 meters per hour. However, the power plant is considerably higher than that of hand- planting, and at this machine previously prepared seed furrows.

For planting such as tubers of potatoes, other methods and machines are used for planting. The machines that store the tubers and rhizomes in the ground, called seed - planter.

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• Sachweh Ulrich (Editor): The Gardener, Volume 3, nursery, fruit growing, seed growing, vegetable growing. 2nd edition, Ulm, Stuttgart 1986/1989, ISBN 3-8001-1148-9, pp. 27 ff