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This Brilliant Japanese Labor-Saving Device Makes Farming WAY Easier

The Paperpot Transplanter turns an hour of work into minutes

By Rain Noe - April 20, 2018

This is the best of what good industrial design has to offer. The Paperpot Transplanter, a Japanese invention for farmers, lets one person do in minutes what ordinarily takes an hour. And even more impressive than the design of this tool is how the designers thought through the loading process, creating an efficient system. This is a great example of harnessing the properties of materials--in this case, paper and Plexiglass--and shaping them in such a way as to make what would be a tedious task into something precise and easy:

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This thing makes me want to farm. I want to sit in a shed and load that thing up over and over.

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Very inventive!
The seedlings on a rope / band and the shutter seed delivery is very nice!

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I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.