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Trueby

12-09-2000 15:25:17

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I am looking for old nursery equipment used for the planting of trees and shrubs. i own a small landscaping and nursery company and have a strong intrest in old equipment and am hoping to run my growing ranges with pre 1950 tractors just for the fun of it. Any info on what was made or where I can find some would be great. Thanks.

Trueby

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big fred

12-11-2000 06:53:45

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Re: Transplanters and other nursery equipment in reply to Trueby, 12-09-2000 15:25:17

I saw an old bulb planter at auction last year. It was badly rusted and I didn't see any mfgr ID on it. It had a box to hold bulbs, a set of planter discs to open a row, a seat where someone would ride and drop bulbs in the row and that was about it. It had no means to close the row, so I assume they used a drag to do that.

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Trueby

12-11-2000 13:46:28

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Re: Re: Transplanters and other nursery equipment in reply to big fred, 12-11-2000 06:53:45

interesting. Any idea how old it is? What do you use to pull it?

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big fred

12-11-2000 14:29:28

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Re: Re: Re: Transplanters and other nursery equipment in reply to Trueby, 12-11-2000 13:46:28

Like I said it was all rusted out, but it looked like it could be pulled with a small tractor, Farmall A size, depending on soil. There are a lot of tulip and daffodil farms around here, and they seem to use that size tractor. I would guess it was 1940's vintage.

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TomH

12-10-2000 05:52:28

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Re: Transplanters and other nursery equipment in reply to Trueby, 12-09-2000 15:25:17

Try posting a "Wanted" ad here. There were (and still are) a lot of potatoes, tobacco, and tomatoes grown in the Lancaster, PA area.

http://www.lancasterfarming.com/

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Burrhead

12-09-2000 19:04:27

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Re: Transplanters and other nursery equipment in reply to Trueby, 12-09-2000 15:25:17

Trueby check out the trailer models on these websites.

Really the only difference between a new spade and the older ones, the older ones ran off the hydraulics system of the tractor, and on the new models the spade has a power plant on the trailer to run the hydraulics.

The units that were truck mounted were almost exactly what they are now. The Vermeer used to have a good roller bearing on the spade mast and now it only has steel sliding in a steel track. I liked their older models better. You could run them longer between rebuild, and with real bearings and grease fittings they lasted longer.

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Trueby

12-09-2000 21:58:21

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Re: Re: Transplanters and other nursery equipment in reply to Burrhead, 12-09-2000 19:04:27

I am looking for planting equipment for cuttings. I know some old potato planters were made to plant trees. The trees would just be whips. And i have seen some planters to plant 3"-6" rooted cuttings. Some day I will need to big digger..but right now I am planting the seedlings.

Thank, the web sites were intresting anyways.

Corey

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Burrhead

12-10-2000 06:35:16

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Re: Re: Re: Transplanters and other nursery equipment in reply to Trueby, 12-09-2000 21:58:21

Oops my mistake. I was thinking bigger tree transplanting.

I linked in Whitfield Equip. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to the seedling transplanters. The older ones you are looking for looked almost exactly like these new ones except that the older ones had steel wheels and a steel seat for the person to ride and put the seedlings into the planter one at a time.

I don't recall seeing any of the old ones go through any auctions but I know that they definetly were made at least as far back as the 50's.

Whitfield Equip

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