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The G4
vegetable transplanter, its most recent model, has the following
features on each head:
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- Ability to scan plants at up to
8 plants per second and gap up
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- Can plant at 2 plants per second
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- Precise control of the depth of
planting. Lettuce plants can be planted exactly level with the
top of the soil, minimising any leaf rot, and cutting down on
the lettuce developing an oval rather than a round shape.
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- Precise control over spacing. An
encoder reads the distance travelled along the ground. The
desired spacing along the row to within 1 mm is simply punched
into the keypad.
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- Each head floats, and the
pressure it exerts on the bed can be controlled. This means
that when running in light soils the pressure can be reduced,
or the head even lifted off the bed, and while in cloddy soils
the pressure can be increased.
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- For narrow spacings between rows
a twin shoe attachment can be fitted to each head, meaning
that very close spacings between the rows can be achieved
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Automatic vegetable transplanting
greatly cuts down on the labour required for transplanting,
by half or more. One person can feed a number of
heads at once.
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Cutting a 12 person transplanting crew down to 6 or less results in the very rapid accumulation of labour
savings. |
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THIS TECHNOLOGY IS PROTECTED BY PATENTS:
GRANTED PATENTS:
679926, 2284337, 189753, 5676072, 4970972,
170546
PATENT APPLICATIONS:
2142119, 939174462, 254681, 700484/1995,
6-504838
PCT/AU97/00893
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UNAUTHORISED REPRODUCTION OR
DISTRIBUTION OF ALL, OR ANY PART OF THIS MACHINE,
WILL RESULT IN OFFENDERS BEING PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF
THE LAW |
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transplanter please click here
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International Pty Ltd |
machines which remove each seedling from the tray, scan across the top of
every plug to see if the plant has a stem and has
germinated or not, then plant the seedling at a precisely controlled depth
and spacing in the ground.