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enables four-to-five people to pot and house 15,000 “liners,” or rooted cuttings, in a period of about four weeks.
When he started working on the project, the “soil mixing operation was reasonably wellmechanized, but nearly everything else was manual,” he said. “Filling containers while kneeling in a large soil mix bin was terribly slow and grossly primitive.” The Antonys needed some way to move soil from its storage bin into an overhead bin 10 feet away, then into the pots, rather like a bottling plant. “I’d seen farmers moving grain from harvesting combines to large trailers using a screw type auger turning inside a tubular housing,” Antony continued. Minus the housing, this was the perfect device to transfer the pine bark mix to the overhead bin. It evert had the added advantage of blending the ingredients as they moved along.
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