Planters Mechanical vegetable planter?

[johan3400]

Bob,
I think you should purchase one. I also think you need to post great pictures this fall after you use it to plant fall cabbage, brocolli and lettuce.

 

[DUMBDOG]

Bob

First of all, is one of your tractors a hydro or do you have a creep gear? We transplanted over 10,000 plants this year that we started in peat pots. It is a time saver, but you need a minimum of three people for the operation. At the spacing that we use it took a little over eight hours of actual transplanting time, not including filling water, loading the flats and transport time. The speed of the tractor at the maximum was .4 miles per hour, app 2000 feet per hour.

The watermelon, pumpkins, honeydew would be direct seeded, the amount of time saved in transplanting these are only a couple of days in the maturity. If you have or can get the plates, the flexi planter will work well for these.

For 500 transplants, I would not get the transplanter, but if you want it go ahead, they are fun to play with, on the tractor or on the transplanter.

Here is a link to the transplanter that we used this year for the first time.

Transplanter

 

[Birdman]

I think your planting problems would be a good project for some Boy/Girl Scouts. On the other hand I like getting new equipment as much as the next guy so getting the planter would be OK. But have you ever sat behind one of those things? I have planted tobacco from them and it gets old real quick, and I hope you have vertical exhaust on your tractor, nothing worse than sitting there about 2' from a tail pipe blasting you in the face.