I thought my post was getting a little long for the speciality equipment post, so I started a new one. Heres my hobby.
I have approx 5000 spruce at various heights and 1000 maple and oaks. I hope you enjoy the pictures.
I plant landscape trees. I start with something as small as 6" bareroot, all the way to 10 ft whips (deciduous). Some of the trees come as a 50mm plug.
For plugs I use what looks like a potato planter. Shove it in the ground, step on the pedal it opens the hole. I can plant 150/hr with one person helping.
Small bareroots up to 2 feet, I use a Holland planter. I can plant 400/hr. The machine runs almost too fast for one person on it. Really need two. We miss a tree now and then.
6-10' whips, I use this homemade planter that takes a ton of power to pull, as you see in the pic. Run it about 20" deep.
I weed around the trees with a weedbadger. All hydraulic. it has a sensor on the leading edge by the head, that automatically retracts it as it goes around trees. If that sensor is not working right, it will eat an 1.5" diameter tree in about 1/2 of a second.
Then when they are ready I dig them up with the tree spade.
A few pics of the field.
Emerald Lustre Maples
Autumn Blaze Maples
Thundercloud Plums (left), October Glory Maples (right)
A few 4ft blue spruce
I have approx 5000 spruce at various heights and 1000 maple and oaks. I hope you enjoy the pictures.
I plant landscape trees. I start with something as small as 6" bareroot, all the way to 10 ft whips (deciduous). Some of the trees come as a 50mm plug.
For plugs I use what looks like a potato planter. Shove it in the ground, step on the pedal it opens the hole. I can plant 150/hr with one person helping.
Small bareroots up to 2 feet, I use a Holland planter. I can plant 400/hr. The machine runs almost too fast for one person on it. Really need two. We miss a tree now and then.
6-10' whips, I use this homemade planter that takes a ton of power to pull, as you see in the pic. Run it about 20" deep.
I weed around the trees with a weedbadger. All hydraulic. it has a sensor on the leading edge by the head, that automatically retracts it as it goes around trees. If that sensor is not working right, it will eat an 1.5" diameter tree in about 1/2 of a second.
Then when they are ready I dig them up with the tree spade.
A few pics of the field.
Emerald Lustre Maples
Autumn Blaze Maples
Thundercloud Plums (left), October Glory Maples (right)
A few 4ft blue spruce