Posted by PhilcaseinWPa on August 30, 2007 at 07:10:40 from (146.186.55.48):
Sometime in a previous discussion someone wondered why i was so worried about going slower while transplanting. Some transplanters may be more automatic and allow the persons planting to go faster but our waterwheel requires the plant to be set into the mud by hand. The better job you do setting the plant the better chance of survival. My CIH 885 in low range 1st gear with the TA pulled at idle can pull our transplanter with 2 people riding and 110 gallons of water. It goes about 36' per minute. With our spacing of 2' between tomatoes and 2 people transplanting they have over 6 seconds to set each plant. With tomatoes 1 person can keep up. When we do peppers we plant a double staggered row with the plants 17" apart in each row Each person setting plants has less than 2.5 seconds. I would like to go even closer with some crops so there would be even less time. The link is to a video of my wife and sister planting peppers. They are hustling and everything was going pretty smooth. Granted it might be a little quicker if all the plants were pulled from the cells beforehand but btdt and you can get a lot of tangled plants. Sorry this post was so long but I wanted to explain why I am still looking for something slower, probably a good hydro machine.
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