Seedling Planting Tool

[2dogs]

Ok, I'm from Guatemala. Or from any Stan of your choice. I don't care. Just let me back to do planting, please.

That cracked me up.

 

[OlympicYJ]

First I must say, it's really good for your back. And shoulders too. The only body part that gets sour with the tube planting is the soils of your feet. The jaws cut a round hole a bit more spacey than the plug, so you need to pack it good on the both sides of the root. That's quite easy since you're already standing straight. However there's always citizens who will skip the packing because it takes time. That's when the problems with air pockets and such will emerge.

Careful packing, I think, makes that the tube doesn't speed things up. Just makes it a lot lighter, on a fairly flat ground. On that particular plot shown on the clip, (flat, mostly soft soil, not much rocks or clay, slash cleaned, max. 250 meters distance from the landing) I planted 2400 pieces within 8 hours.

Yupp even with bareroot you can get air pockets but other bad things can happen if planted correctly. What is the name of the tool? who makes it?

It does look much easier than slamming a hoedad in the ground. The nurseries would have to cooperate in making plugs instead of bare root trees.

Alot of the nurseries are making more plugs these days. They're just spendier than bareroot and everyone has always planted bareroot so the change is pretty slow.

 

[lmbrman]

new paige/consolidated papers used to offer containerized seedlings back as far as the 80's and gave quite a few away to area tree farmers each year - not sure about current practices thou -

that is one slick tool for planting :msp_thumbup:

 

[Samlock]

Yupp even with bareroot you can get air pockets but other bad things can happen if planted correctly. What is the name of the tool? who makes it?

Alot of the nurseries are making more plugs these days. They're just spendier than bareroot and everyone has always planted bareroot so the change is pretty slow.

We call the tube here pottiputki, that's also the trade mark of the tool. It's a Finlander invention from back 70's, if I recall it right. Now a Swedish company BCC is marketing the tool, they seem to have more info on their web site Product

One more thing on plugs vs. bare roots. Most of the planting is done by the not so experienced labor. I'm okay with it, but you really need to be careful with the bare roots that you set them straight. Some people have serious difficulties figuring that. There's plenty of tree plantations one can still see by looking the curved butts which direction the planter has moved. Anyone gets four plugs out of five straight with a tube by accident.

 

[OlympicYJ]

We call the tube here pottiputki, that's also the trade mark of the tool. It's a Finlander invention from back 70's, if I recall it right. Now a Swedish company BCC is marketing the tool, they seem to have more info on their web site Product

One more thing on plugs vs. bare roots. Most of the planting is done by the not so experienced labor. I'm okay with it, but you really need to be careful with the bare roots that you set them straight. Some people have serious difficulties figuring that. There's plenty of tree plantations one can still see by looking the curved butts which direction the planter has moved. Anyone gets four plugs out of five straight with a tube by accident.

Thanks I'll have to check it out!

Bareroot can be a pain to get strait.

 

[slowp]

One more thing on plugs vs. bare roots. Most of the planting is done by the not so experienced labor. I'm okay with it, but you really need to be careful with the bare roots that you set them straight. Some people have serious difficulties figuring that. There's plenty of tree plantations one can still see by looking the curved butts which direction the planter has moved. Anyone gets four plugs out of five straight with a tube by accident.

We call that J rooting.

 

[OlympicYJ]

We call that J rooting.

J rooting is when the roots form a J pattern in the hole not if the stem isn't strait with the ground.

 

[lmbrman]

try again slowp :hmm3grin2orange: