9,550 Trees

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Spent all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday planting 9,550 trees.

This is the shipment from the WI Nursery. 9,000 red pines and 500 spruce (I think we ended up with a lot more than that but that was order).




View from the road down the middle of the property.


View from the road. Need to tackle this project this fall with some cuttings from John to get a screen planted.








Forgot to snap the picture of the 25 crabapple trees that I picked up from the NWTF and the 25 wild apples from North Forty in Pembine, WI.

Was a big project for 3 guys to tackle so happy it is over and will only be planting about 3000 trees each spring going forward.

 

[bueller]

That's a heck of a lot of trees!

 

[Riggsgwp->]

Looks like has a tree planter on the back of that tractor. Still a ton of work.

 

[bwoods11]

Now that is a project!!

Looks good

 

[bat man]

We used to sing that song on the bus going to camp.

9 thousand 5 hundred fifty some trees in the ground...

 

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Planted by hand? Holy crap

Pines and spruce went in with the tree planter over about 14 hours - give or take a couple hours either way. We planted the 50 apple/crabapple trees on Sunday in about 5 hours. Need to run back up and get them fully protected but didn't want to store them for a week. Thought it was smarter to get them in the ground right away.

 

[scott44]

That's a lot of trees to get in the ground, Congrats!

 

[biglakeba$$]

My big days planting trees I got 1500 in the ground sitting in the tractor pulled planter and was ready to shoot myself after bouncing around in that lumberwagon...... 9500..... Good grief!!!!!

 

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The tree planter wasn't to bad. I wanted to drive myself in the pond after about an hour of sitting on the tractor and idling along. That has to be one of the most boring and thoughtless jobs in the world.

 

[shawnv]

Now pray it's not a dry summer!

 

[kabic]

Does someone have to ride on the tree planter and place the trees in the trench by hand? I watched some video on YouTube but your planter looks a little different than the ones I watched.

 

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Yes. There is a metal disc that slices the grass, a large wedge that opens up the ground and a two wheels behind it that force the ground back closed. Small opening that you put the trees into by hand. You pretty much set the pace of the tractor and you get a count going in your head to get timing down to get trees spaced properly. We measured a few and we were always between 5 to 6 ft between trees unless we had some tiny ones. Those we stuck in the ground as fast as we could since I would expect some die-off.

 

[Jim Timber]

I've seen that done, and think I'd prefer planting on foot than piloting the tug for one of those.

I used to drive fork lifts from one end of a factory to the other and when loaded you were stuck creeping because you couldn't see over the load. I made it 6 weeks. :D

 

[tooln]

WOW, even with a planter that a lot of work.

 

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Ran up to the land this afternoon and got the fencing put up around the wild apple trees we planted last weekend.

Deer fencing was on sale at Menards so I thought I would give it a try. Not looking to sturdy but I anchored the 4 corners with 7 foot metal posts so hoping it will hold.

In back ground in the small food plot we put in last fall. I frosted seeded it early in the spring but not much green coming up yet.





Got home to find that the disk seeder I picked up was dropped off and ready to go.

 

[*Hawaii5joe*]

Spent all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday planting 9,550 trees.

This is the shipment from the WI Nursery. 9,000 red pines and 500 spruce (I think we ended up with a lot more than that but that was order).
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View from the road down the middle of the property.
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View from the road. Need to tackle this project this fall with some cuttings from John to get a screen planted.
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Forgot to snap the picture of the 25 crabapple trees that I picked up from the NWTF and the 25 wild apples from North Forty in Pembine, WI.

Was a big project for 3 guys to tackle so happy it is over and will only be planting about 3000 trees each spring going forward.

Impressive! Curious why so many red pine? I had to quit planting red and white as the deer were getting them.

 

[bueller]

Ran up to the land this afternoon and got the fencing put up around the wild apple trees we planted last weekend.

Deer fencing was on sale at Menards so I thought I would give it a try. Not looking to sturdy but I anchored the 4 corners with 7 foot metal posts so hoping it will hold.

In back ground in the small food plot we put in last fall. I frosted seeded it early in the spring but not much green coming up yet.

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Got home to find that the disk seeder I picked up was dropped off and ready to go.

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I saw that fencing but decided to go with 5' welded wire because I was afraid the deer fence wouldn't make it through a full four seasons and I need it to last a couple years for my enclosure. The wire wasnt much more and will easily do that plus be repurposed for single tree cages afterwards. Let us know how that fence holds up please.

 

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Impressive! Curious why so many red pine? I had to quit planting red and white as the deer were getting them.

Honest answer would be I was overzelous when I bought the property. The forester from the USDA, DNR, and the forester that put my MFL plan together all recommended planting in white and red pine. I put in 3000 white last year and from what I have seen - not a single one was nipped off by the deer. I got a grant to plant the trees so I had to follow through on it.

If I hadn't gotten the grant, I would have not planted and would have followed the habitat plan that Steve B put together for me instead of the required tree planting plan the DNR forester put together for the grant.

 

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I saw that fencing but decided to go with 5' welded wire because I was afraid the deer fence wouldn't make it through a full four seasons and I need it to last a couple years for my enclosure. The wire wasnt much more and will easily do that plus be repurposed for single tree cages afterwards. Let us know how that fence holds up please.

Probably a good choice. A couple of the plastic poles already snapped so had to put in metal posts to keep it up.