The transplanter carries enough water in two drums to irrigate 1,000 plants, has a two-winged blade for digging trenches and flanged wheels for closing them.
Korenek, a tree transplanter, is scheduled to depart Santa Fe on Wednesday, after receiving a Native American blessing at a farewell ceremony conducted by Governor Bruce King.
Six years ago Serge Voronoff, gland transplanter, tried to get a child from Nora, a chimpanzee into whom he had sewn human ovaries.