Tororider
Veteran Member
Well we are getting another 300 trees this weekend, 200 blue spruce and 100 fraser firs. This will add to the 700 trees we planted last spring, 450 norway spruce, 150 black hills spruce , and 100 fraser firs. Last year the black hills and frasers were small, in the 5-8" range while the norways were bigger 16-20". This year all the trees are supposed to be 16-24". We had to clear out part of a brush line in order to put the trees where we want them. It will be on the north side of the property and finish out the front privacy(in 15 years) border on the front side of our property.
Once the trees we plant on the north grow up a bit, we will take down the rest of the brush line and plant another couple rows of trees where they were.
A couple days ago my dad and I thinned out the brush line, we were just cleaning it out and dumping the stuff in a chip pile and a compost pile when we started moving rocks. We decided to move an old section of farm fence, rocks cemented together. I was trying to pull it into the bucket when my dad moved the tractor and sure enough my finger got smashed. Equal blame, I shouldn't have put my hand there, and my dad shouldn't have moved the bucket with me there. Fortunately I don't think it is broken, just a huge blood blister and swollen, and ugly. As long as it doesn't swell up too much more I should be ok. I feel pretty lucky that it isn't worse.
Anyways, I will try to post some pics of what we have gotten done so far and then of the progress this weekend. Haven't decided if we are going to use a post hole digger or a manual tree spud, any suggestions? We used a three point transplanter from the county last year and it didn't work out well. It wasn't set up correctly so we are going to avoid that this year. I think we may test out some holes with the phd and see how it goes, but for only 300 trees we are just going to go with whatever is easier.
Once the trees we plant on the north grow up a bit, we will take down the rest of the brush line and plant another couple rows of trees where they were.
A couple days ago my dad and I thinned out the brush line, we were just cleaning it out and dumping the stuff in a chip pile and a compost pile when we started moving rocks. We decided to move an old section of farm fence, rocks cemented together. I was trying to pull it into the bucket when my dad moved the tractor and sure enough my finger got smashed. Equal blame, I shouldn't have put my hand there, and my dad shouldn't have moved the bucket with me there. Fortunately I don't think it is broken, just a huge blood blister and swollen, and ugly. As long as it doesn't swell up too much more I should be ok. I feel pretty lucky that it isn't worse.
Anyways, I will try to post some pics of what we have gotten done so far and then of the progress this weekend. Haven't decided if we are going to use a post hole digger or a manual tree spud, any suggestions? We used a three point transplanter from the county last year and it didn't work out well. It wasn't set up correctly so we are going to avoid that this year. I think we may test out some holes with the phd and see how it goes, but for only 300 trees we are just going to go with whatever is easier.