The norms and rules of construction, regulatory documentation when growing cabbage seedlings is one of the most time -consuming processes is sowing seeds. You have to stand over the garden all day and lay out in a furrow with an interval of 3-4 cm one seed. Sowing in this way a hundred or two seeds is no longer easy. And what to do if you need to plant several thousand or even tens of thousands of seeds for seedlings? It is not enough to do this work manually – no strength and health. In order to somehow facilitate the process of sowing seeds, I tried to stick them with droplets of Clayster on narrow strips of toilet paper at an equal distance from each other and then lay out in the beds not in the grooves, but in whole stripes. Work on seed sowing was greatly simplified, but other problems appeared. The most unpleasant of them – the germination has significantly decreased, as it seems to me, due to the fact that Clester isolates the seeds from the air. Therefore, I had to look for another way to solve sowing problems. And the solution turned out to be very simple – I made myself a small manual seeder, which allows you to mechanize the planting of seeds not only on fairly large beds, but also in a greenhouse, and even in a tiny guy. The design of the seeder turned out to be so simple that anyone can make it from improvised materials. The seeder consists of just a few parts: two wheels, rigidly fixed on the same axis with a doser drum, a pusher handle and a small bunker for seeds. I made wheels from a steel sheet 2 mm thick. First, he cut out a disk with a diameter of 260 mm from it, then I made a detachment of the 24 radial cut to a depth of 10 mm around the perimeter, and bent one side at an angle of 90 ° the resulting petals. In the center drilled a hole of 0 10 mm under the axis. As a doster drum, I used the engine pulley from the Volga washing machine. A series of recesses with a diameter and a depth of 2 mm in a step of 3 mm in a step of 3 mm in a step of 3 mm, so that one seed of the seed seeds could fit in them, in a step of 3 mm. Doster drum (pulley) and installed both wheels on one axis. The pusher made the handle from the bar 0 12 mm. At one end, I cut the threads and stood on a turnkey nut 17. To this nut, welded two plates 100×12 mm. But first, in the plates, he drilled one hole of 0 12 mm, put them on the ends of the shaft, and then welded the opposite ends of the plates to the nut. Bunker hull for seeds soldered thin tin. Its lower – a narrowed and mowed end – should fit tightly to the pulley stream (doster drum). The bunker for the “ears” of tin was attached to it with screws M4 to triangular brackets, which in turn welded to the plates of the pusher’s handle. That’s the whole design. When moving the seeder along the bed, the rotating wheels make the dositor a drum and throw it through equal intervals by exactly one seed. It became very easy and simple, and most importantly – it was possible to achieve high quality sowing.
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