Nursery Equipment

Potting Station 4 m³

• Easily adjustable for different pot sizes, no tools required
• Gravity feed hopper
• Fill by bobcat or conveyor
• No moving parts, minimum maintenance
• Simple and reliable

Potting Station Specifications

• 4 cubic metres capacity
• Dimensions – 1.5m wide x 2.5m high x 3.2m long
• 3mm mild steel, painted finish
• Double sided operation takes up to seven 16” diameter pots on each side
• Three custom sizes of pot holding templates supplied with each potting station
• Templates are made from sturdy 3mm galvanised sheet
• Galvanised sheet metal cylinders, for potting into bags, are also available
• Option - heavy duty castors

Potting Bench and Hopper

• The simple method of setting up a workflow pattern for straight filling of tubes, trays and pots of all sizes with a bulk loaded hopper
• Manufactured from heavy galvanised steel
• Mounting frame made of robust angle iron
• Built to provide many years of uninterrupted service

Specifications

Small

• Capacity – 1.8 cubic metres
• Dimensions – 1.2m wide x 2m high x 1.8m long

Large

• Capacity – 2.5 cubic metres
• Dimensions – 1.2m wide x 2m high x 2.4m long

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Potting Trailer

• Simple method of moving potting media directly to where it’s needed and potting straight out of the trailer.

Specifications

• Capacity – 1 cubic metre
• Dimensions – 0.5m wide 1m x high x 2.4m long
• Galvanised body- 2.4m x 0.9m x 0.5m
• Both sides hinged down for your ease and convenience
  
• Open working area when sides down: 2.4m x 2m wide
• Draw bar folds up when not in tow

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"Beantree" Dispatch Bench

• Designed by a nursery person, “Liz”. It answers a lot of your dispatch problems and issues.

Reasons to have these “Beantree” pre-delivery benches

• Keep dispatch area organized and clean
• Flexibility in layout of benching can be changed to suit different situations
• Benches can be easily wheeled away to provide open space for nursery tasks in your shed
  
• Multiple benches can be placed together end to end or back to back
• Easy removal of roots by rubbing pots across the steel mesh
• All waste falls through the holes into the bin under the bench
• Minimal hand movements & body twisting by dispatch staff
• Easy disposal of cuttings
• Ergonomic work height

Potting Bench And Shelf

• Simple and effective this small bench fits into those small spaces and is ideal for propagating, potting up, or just to have a small bench to work on in dispatch or your equipment shed.
• Manufactured with a shelf underneath to help provide that extra bit of storage and versatility and made to meet the small budget

Specifications

• Small dimensions – 1,100mm wide x 600mm depth x 400mm height sides
• Half full capacity – 0.13 cubic metres
• Working height – 860mm
• Shelf height – 200mm
• Frame – 30 × 30 × 2mm galvabond
• Shelf – 2mm galvabond

Potting benches can be manufactured to give wheel chair access and appropriate working heights.

Propagation Or Potting Bench With Sides

• Folded galvanised bench top minimises contamination of old potting media caught in cracks.
• 300mm sides prevents spillage of potting media when loading bench with front end loaders
• Built to last for many years

Specifications

1.8 metres long

• Two sides 300mm high right or left handed.
• Ergonomic working height of 860mm
• 2mm galvanised bench top

2.4 metres long

• Three sides 300mm high
• Ergonomic working height of 860mm
• 2mm galvanised bench top

3.6 metres long

• Three sides 300mm high
• Ergonomic working height of 860mm
• 2mm galvanised bench top
• Consists of two 1.8 metre benches bolted together = 3.6m bench.
• Makes it easier for transport
• Can be disassembled to create two (2) 1.8m long propagating/potting benches.
• 2mm galvanised bench top folded at corners minimising contamination by old potting media in cracks.

Options

• Castors (lockable) to have benches mobile
• Bottom shelf
• Potting benches can be manufactured to give wheel chair access and appropriate working heights.

Potting Bench With Fold Down Side

• Simple and effective this large galvanised steel bench is ideal for propagating and potting up.
• Manufactured with a side that can be folded up when your front-end loader is filling the bench with soil so that the soil doesn’t spill off the edge of the bench.
• Release the barrel bolts and lower the side and have a handy clean bench top to commence your work.
• Side wings at each end of the fold down front would swing out and lock into place to stop soil spilling off ends of the working area.
• Built to an ergonomic working height of 860mm
• Galvanised steel used in manufacture, minimising rust
• Special hinging system so hinges don’t rust.

Specifications

• Dimensions (closed)- 2,400mm width x 880mm depth x 300mm height sides
• Half full capacity – 0.3 cubic metres
• Working height – 860mm
• Workspace – 2,400mm wide x 1,180mm deep when side folded down
• Sides and back – 300mm high with a double folded edge for safety
• Frame – 40 × 40 × 2mm rectangular hollow section galvabond
• Shelf – 2mm galvabond

Pot Accumulator

• Place it at the end of your take-off conveyor on the potting machine
• Gives your operator time to load trailers, etc
• Removes the problem of having to stop the potting machine because there are no trailers available to take product away
• Strong construction using rectangular hollow section, duragal steel
• Table extremities supported with bearings
• 240-volt motor and gearbox
• Adjustable feet for uneven surfaces

A.D.A.S. Potting Bench

• A.D.A.S potting bench for hand potting by four persons simultaneously.
• Hopper can be filled by a conveyor coming from a soil mixer or soil bunker.
• Researchers at the agricultural development and advisory service in england developed this hand potting bench design.
• Using the a.d.a.s nursery bench designed with 4 hand potting positions provides more efficient potting techniques and dramatically improves hand potting output rates.

Specifications

• The hopper contains 400 litres of growing media.
• Hopper is galvanised sheet etched primed and enamel painted.
• Galvanised workbench top is 2.4 metres square.
• Height to bench top is 915mm.
• Overall height to top of hopper 2,060mm
• 3mm galvanised steel deck.
• Galvanised legs and cold gal painted welds.

Other nursery equipment such as Beantree Dispatch Bench, Spring Benching, Potting Trailer, Pot lifter/handler which also reduce risk of getting injury and increase work efficiency are also available.