One day....15,000 trees

[rareboy]

It is tree planting day at last!

So a crew of 12 planters arrived this morning to put in this year's trees to extend f our mixed bushland. It is part of an eight year plan to plant out 100,000 trees. So far we have planted about 20,000.

They intend to do all the planting in one day this year...so about 1100 trees per person over 8 hours, or about 150 trees per hour. In un-mowed fields. My back is screaming just thinking about it.

I can do about 80 per hour for 3 hours...but then lag back to about 60 for 3 hours and then I just lie down and refuse to do any more. Which is why we don't plant our own now.

Have any of you done tree planting in your younger limber days?

 

[Alistair]

You're doing it the wrong way

 

[Alistair]

If you need any land cleared

If you like that, you can find more just like it at my thread here

http://www.justusboys.com/forum/threads/395283-Rednecks-Country-Bumpkins-and-Cowboys

 

[gsdx]

Sort of reminds me of weeding the garden when I was a kid... except backwards.

 

[unloadonme]

I've planted individual trees by digging a hole, putting tbe tree in it, back-filling and usually fixing some sort of stake to support it. It would be impossible to do that 150 times in an hour, so presumably you're using some sort of machinery.

 

[rareboy]

They are all hand planted, but they are only 2-3 year seedlings and whips.

Some years ago we planted an area with larger trees, but they are more trouble than they are worth and most look worse than the small trees that we've put in over the years

We usually have about a 90% survival rate over a ten year span.

It is about 6pm though...and I haven't seen all the crew come back down.

Last year we had a barbecue for them, but this year we didn't know what day they were coming so we just said 'Fuck It'.

 

[Cormac135]

Nature is overrated, just concrete the place.

 

[peeonme]

I have planted a few, mostly ornamental or pine. I planted a lot of bushes (please!) such as snow mound spirea.
I love trees around me and am lucky to live in a place where they were left standing.

 

[Alistair]

I've fallen in love with Japanese Maples. I've been planting them around the house when I can afford them. I've planted a Crimson Prince, a Crimson Queen, and a coral bark. I'm thinking about getting a bloodgood this year.

I've also planted 2 mock crapapples. The whole street is lined with pink and white flowering trees and my yard was lacking.

 

[LeicsDom]

If you need any land cleared

If you like that, you can find more just like it at my thread here

http://www.justusboys.com/forum/threads/395283-Rednecks-Country-Bumpkins-and-Cowboys

Mmm gotta love a redneck cowboy