Pottiputki

hand tool that allows ergonomic seed planting while walking

A pottiputki is a planting tool for putting plants to ground[1] It makes planting faster.[2] The worker strikes the tool into the ground, and then stamps on the mechanism and the pottiputki makes a hole in the ground. A plant is then dropped in the tube of the tool, and falls into the hole.

Pottiputki and worker.

References

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  1. http://www.metsateho.fi/files/metsateho/tiedostot/TMH_100v_historiikki_final.pdf Archived 2014-03-03 at the Wayback Machine metsateho.fi, Historiikki s.194 (in Finnish)
  2. Metsäkoulu s.76 kpl 4 ISBN 978-952-5694-63-5 (in Finnish)