PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a seedling transplanter which solves such problems of a conventional one that there is a large burden on a worker since the worker needs to put a fertilizer in a fertilizing device in high position installed at the rear of the machine body of a seedling transplanter and that if the worker performs the input work of the fertilizer at rainfall time, water gets in a fertilizing hopper and the fertilizer tinged with water forms a lump and adheres to the inside of the fertilizing hopper and it ceases to be discharged.SOLUTION: In a seedling transplanter which has a fertilizing device (5) equipped with a fertilizing hopper (60), the front of its mobile frame (2) has a fertilizer tank (102) which pools a fertilizer. The transplanter includes a fertilizer carrying passage (103) which carries a fertilizer from this fertilizer tank (102) to the fertilizing hopper (60), and a carrying power feeder (104) which supplies fertilizer carrying power to this fertilizer carrying passage (103).COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】苗移植機の機体後部に備えた高位置にある施肥装置に、作業者が肥料を投入する必要があり作業者の負担が大きいという問題があった。また降雨時の肥料投入作業を行うと、施肥ホッパ内に水分が入り込み、水気を帯びた肥料が塊になって施肥ホッパ内に付着して放出されなくなるという問題があった。これらの問題を解決する苗移植機を提供することが、本発明が解決しようとする課題である。【解決手段】施肥ホッパ(60)を備えた施肥装置(5)を有する苗移植機において、走行車体(2)の前部に肥料を貯留する肥料タンク(102)を備え、この肥料タンク(102)から前記施肥ホッパ(60)に肥料を搬送する肥料搬送通路(103)を設けると共に、この肥料搬送通路(103)に肥料の搬送力を供給する搬送力供給装置(104)を設けた苗移植機により上記問題を解決した。【選択図】図1
