Transplanter to Fast With Cub

[Brandon Webb]

Hooked mine up was going to try it with tomatoes. It's faster than I think I can go and I've set tobacco before. Had the cub as slow as I could go. Here's a video I took of it in action:
http://youtu.be/_3ZPLAYq418

[raystractors]

It doesn't seem that fast to me. If you have two people on the planter I think it could be done. We grew burley years ago and the space between plants was about 20" that will make you pay attention. After a couple of hours you get in a rhythm.

[smallfarm]

We use a two row MT2000 among other planters for planting nursery stock. Honestly I think one good person could handle that pace. The key is how the liners are arranged -- must be for easy one handed grab ergonomic for placing them in the pocket. Usually a new person gets the hang of it in a few thousand plants or they get to walk behind the planter and straighten things up

[Boss Hog]

If you have 2 good droppers it will be fine. We plant about 12,000 hills of sweet taters spaced at 12 inches and do fine. The fingers are traveling much faster than those are. But you have to have good people on the planter. Dont think you are going to get it done with inexperienced droppers
boss

[pan60]

I don't plat a lot but my wife was able to keep up with mine and the cub planting tomatoes.
Used the 8 tooth sprockets dropping every other one and peppers every one.
If she missed one she just dropped a plant and when back and hand planted it.
My tomatoes and peppers are closer then I like so next year or this fall I will use different drive sprockets to space things out more.

[Matt Kirsch]

Super A's, 100's, 130's, 140's used a device called a "HydroCreeper" to back-drive the transmission through the PTO shaft to achieve slower speeds. A hydraulic motor driven off the touch control is belted/chained to the PTO shaft, and the tractor is put in gear. The motor is set to turn at very slow RPMs, pushing the tractor along at speeds far slower than you can get normally.

Only caveat is the clutch pedal has to be tied down for it to work. That will burn up the graphite throwout bearing on a Cub in short order.

[Super A]

Super A's, 100's, 130's, 140's used a device called a "HydroCreeper" to back-drive the transmission through the PTO shaft to achieve slower speeds. A hydraulic motor driven off the touch control is belted/chained to the PTO shaft, and the tractor is put in gear. The motor is set to turn at very slow RPMs, pushing the tractor along at speeds far slower than you can get normally.

Only caveat is the clutch pedal has to be tied down for it to work. That will burn up the graphite throwout bearing on a Cub in short order.

Very few were ever sold because of their expense. There is an article in Red Power about a similar device that drove a shaft from the front of the engine which turned the PTO shaft to give a slow speed. Most people just "manned up" and learned how to drop plants.

Al