General description
This work vehicle is designed and built for planting seed-
lings of various kinds (e.g. horticultural, floral, tobacco,
nursery-grown, etc.), rooted in conical or pyramid-
shaped root balls, including small plants with hardly de-
veloped leaf apparatus (see "Seedling size" schedule).
The work vehicle is a semi-carried device, equipped with
a frame for attaching to the three-point hitch on a tractor
and it is suitable for planting in fields and greenhouses.
The moving parts of each planting unit (dispensing unit,
Main parts (UNITRIUM)
The illustration shows the work vehicle with three planting units.
UN41-0520AN
A) Structure for attaching to the three-point hitch on a
tractor (frame)
B) RH support wheel
C) LH support wheel
D) Planting unit
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TECHNICAL INFORMATION
B
D
ejector, etc.) are driven by the planting unit's driving
wheel (when it is touching the ground) and the move-
ment of the tractor.
The seedling falls from the dispenser into the furrow cre-
ated by the ploughshare and the packing wheels fill back
up and compact the soil around the seedling root ball.
The work vehicle is manufactured in several models
which differ mainly in terms of number of planting units
featured and number of cups in the dispensing unit.
A
E) Tray holder
F) Dispenser
G) Packing wheels
H) Ploughshare
L) Driving wheel
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H
C
Use and maintenance