Transplanter with Laser System for Vineyard and Superintensive Olive Plant

In the last ten years we have been assisting to an increasing diffusion of the automatic transplanting machines in the vineyard plant, that allows to plant the vine cuttings with a large root apparatus, which is fundamental in order to obtain a rapid and correct plant growth. The technological evolution of these machines led to fine tuning of laser alignments system to transplant the vine seedlings. This system has been improved thanks to the use of the satellitic receiver, of most recent introduction, which determines the number of necessary poles and vine cuttings, right after having located the borders of the surface. The aim of this work was to evaluate the technical and operative characteristics of the automatic transplanting machine Wagner, equipped by a laser system, working in two different Puglia localities, characterized by the same climate conditions, but different in the matter of the ground kind. The work quality of the transplanting machine on the strength of taking root percentage of the planted material have been evaluated. The trials pointed out that the machine efficiency depends, especially, on the structural typology of the ground as well as on the surfaces position, with operative times and intervention costs always very low in respect to those supported with the manual plant.