Home-Built 3-pt. Mounted Seeder For Permanent Bed Farming
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One of my horticultural clients designed and built this 3-pt. mounted, 5-ft. wide seeder for permanent bed farming. It features a 150 hp. gearbox, two 20-in. long in-bed rippers, two wheel track rippers with inward-facing deflectors, a large capacity hopper for seed or fertilizer, and two different distributors. A 12-volt fan is used to apply the fertilizer or seed.
The ground-driven unit comes with hex shafts and a simple one-spanner sprocket that makes it easy to vary seeding rates. It also comes with depth gauge wheels and a Cambridge roller for good seed-to-soil contact. The roller can be raised or lowered independently. (Andy Lysaght, Plant Detection Systems, Ltd., 95 King Road Rd 3, Napier 4183, New Zealand; andylysaght@xtra.co.nz)
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Home-Built 3-pt Mounted Seeder For Permanent Bed Farming PLANTERS One of my horticultural clients designed and built this 3-pt mounted 5-ft wide seeder for permanent bed farming It features a 150 hp gearbox two 20-in long in-bed rippers two wheel track rippers with inward-facing deflectors a large capacity hopper for seed or fertilizer and two different distributors A 12-volt fan is used to apply the fertilizer or seed The ground-driven unit comes with hex shafts and a simple one-spanner sprocket that makes it easy to vary seeding rates It also comes with depth gauge wheels and a Cambridge roller for good seed-to-soil contact The roller can be raised or lowered independently Andy Lysaght Plant Detection Systems Ltd 95 King Road Rd 3 Napier 4183 New Zealand; andylysaght@xtra co nz
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