Reduce your labour requirement, and boost your productivity with Ferrari FUTURA, an automated transplanter that can work with vegetables stored in trays of different sizes and materials (hard plastic, foam, disposable).
- Perfect for vegetables such as: brassicas, celery, pepper, fennel, lettuce, leeks, tomato. All other vegetables having leaves similar to the ones above listed with min height of 10cm - max 30cm
- Versions available: Mounted, trailed with rear steering wheels or self-propelled
- Tray adaptable to most of the trays available on the market
Minimum row spacing: 70cm (45cm triangular version - 25cm Twin version)
Productivity: on average 7,000 plants / h - maximum 9,000 plants / h
Main equipment: automatic plant extraction - electric eyes to identify missing plants - parallel linkage - rubber roller with adjustable pressure - hydraulic transmission - rear press wheel hydraulic adjustment - electronic depth adjustment
The machine works by itself (only one operator is required to feed the transplanter robots with trays). Every robot extracts the seedlings using a technology based on cylindrical plungers combined with moving fingers. There is no need to use a specific tray to run FUTURA, the machine will be adapted to the tray selected by the user: this is one of the features that makes the Ferrari automated planter a very innovative and versatile machine. The plants will then be gently moved by mobile pliers which will place them in the dispenser. This is gentler than planting by hand, which has been noted in trials giving faster establishment.
Key Features
- Electronic Eyes to identify missing plants, preventing gaps in establishment
- PSC (plant spacing control - hydraulic drive)
- Rubber Roller with adjustable pressure
- Granular applicator
- Water dosing kit – applies water to the plant at planting
- Electrionic depth adjustment
- Hydraulic adjustment of bidirectional press wheels
- Even depth of planting in differing soil conditions
- Memoplant (data memory on SD card)
The first video shows a Ferrari Futura translanter planting Ellepot leek plants at 10cm spacing. 7,000 plants per row per hour with very consistent spacing.
The Futura automatic transplanter will plant Ellepot's of many different plant types.
Ellepots are a non plastic propagation pot that are biodegradable and trans-plantable with the crop inside. They are coming more interesting as there will be a potential ban on peat, or at least a significant reduction, being used.
As well as the Futura, Ferrari engineer a full range or transplanters.
Please see their website for all machinery.
If you have any queries or require more information please don't hesitate to contact us.