Blue Spruce delivered...

[NOTV8]

got my trees delivered and it will be a while before I finish planting all this.... They are 50 pieces and are between 6' and 8' high. My yard project are just keep getting better.... or should I say longer to finish :laughing:. I will have a lot of grass to cut once it's all done .

 

[galaxie428]

Isnt it great to have the tools that make jobs like this "easy"? I planted several new trees this past year for myself and some friends, piece of cake with a hoe and forks.

Can you imagine doing that job without your tractor/hoe?

 

[Gil Case]

Planting 50 trees is not easy, just easier with the tractor than any other way. I did 50 post holes with my CK20 hst last summer and that was not easy but just looking at hand digging with a clam shovel convinced me not to complain. The alternative is sometimes awful.

 

[thatguy]

WOW.. There is a reason why we buy trees that are about 12" tall - they dont require as big of holes LOL

Do you scoop out a hole with the backhoe to set them?

brian

 

[avphile]

I planted 25 6' - 8' Serbian spruce trees 2 years ago and couldn't have done it by myself without my backhoe. It was still a ton of work. Getting them centered in the hole, standing straight and making sure they were the right depth was a big PITA. The 8' ones weighed about 800lbs and the only way i had to straighten them was hooking a chain to the backhoe boom and attaching that to the basket around the ball and lifting the low side up. I took a weeks vacation from work to do it and barely got them all back-filled.

Good luck with your project, 50 will keep you busy!

 

[the6shooter]

It may be work but the fun kind of work, One thing though, don't plant them anywhere you have a septic system. you'll be sorry later. I did that 20 yrs. ago. and no one told me that the roots go straight to the sepic system.
and the solids tank was filled with roots.
david

 

[krazsk]

Hey notv, I win. I had 100 pine trees delivered. I need my trees to replant the ones that died in my DUMB POLACK planting. To see dumb polack spelled out in trees from the satellite view, go to Bing maps, location of MMB ranch, jamestown, ND. go to aerial view, then scroll down south for dumb and southeast for polack along the lakeshore. then zoom in along the lake to see the pine tree planting spell DUMB POLACK. You can try google maps also, go to Rancho Notso Grande near Jamestown, nd but the spelling is a little harder to see on google. anybody that finds it, needs to come on here and give me crap.

 

[Canada_CT230]

I wrote, "HI SMURF" by tilling in my bare ag field (for a very very short co-worker to view as we fly over...we also wore blue flight suits...hence the smurf reference). Google Earth took a new photo and it is on there.

N49 57.443 W98 25.950 - Google Maps