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Weyerhauser has a nursery just a few miles north of Chehalis. Every year, they have a public tree sale. You can buy trees by the bag or by the tree. I do the latter. I went yesterday and bought 10 Western Red Cedar and 5 Incense Cedar seedlings to atone for having a half dozen trees killed. For those of you not familiar with tree planting, seedlings come in different sizes. These two species only came in "plugs". That is the trees were grown in plastic tubes, and the roots are compacted. Here's an Incense Cedar.
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I spent a couple short seasons planting professionally. It helped put me through my discount college. You can really put a lot of plugs in the ground fast. A pointy piece of metal can be welded on the bottom of the hoedad, and you scalp off the surface stuff, stomp the dibble in, put the tree in, compact it with your foot, and off you go to the next one. Today's work was done with a clam digging shovel and I'm only 32 years older now too.
Here's what you end up with. The tree that is. Not the dog.
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That's a Western Red Cedar and it is native to our area. It grows well on that part of the property.
Speaking of,

Here's the construction update. I'm liking it.
The front and side.
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The Backside
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The "view" out the front window.
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Today is rainy and chilly, good weather for tree planting.
 
I don't imagine a plug sells for more than a dollar or two. Does W make any money at this or is the sale a good will gesture? Most tree planting here stops about now because the rain stops. Spring began in earnest yesterday, we won't see much moisture until next January. Will you need to protect the seedling with net or a tube or even a bamboo stake? (BTW I watched "Twilight" this weekend and I was think about you all.)

The used dog looks none too happy. My two dogs think you made her stand there and pose. The house looks great! I'll never post a pic of my dump. At least it is pretty muchly paid off.
 
It's always a fine time planting on your property, and the house is looking really good. In addition to receiving a fine product, you're also stimulating the local economy.
 
When you buy small numbers of trees, like I did, they are 0.75 each. If you buy them bulk, by the bag, it is less. I think it is a public relations thing. They have free coffee and cocoa and a forester on hand. The forester told my friend to plant Ponderosa Pine in her wetlands area?????? I disagreed. Maybe she misunderstood?

There's quite a selection. Maybe I'll get some dogwood next year.

The house building is not fun. I hate choosing things. I feel like saying, just finish it--please.

The dog posed HIMself. I planned to just take a tree picture. Now he likes to have his picture taken, seems like.
 
house looks great

planting trees is as fun as cutting them down... but cutting a little more so.

i planted three slash pine at my parent's house.

one is already bent by that damn texas wind :chainsaw:
 
After last years season planting for Roseburg Lumber. Never again. I so :censored: hate planting trees. It's nice to do on your property, you know a couple a hundred. But not half a million of the damn buggers.
 
When you buy small numbers of trees, like I did, they are 0.75 each. If you buy them bulk, by the bag, it is less. I think it is a public relations thing. They have free coffee and cocoa and a forester on hand. The forester told my friend to plant Ponderosa Pine in her wetlands area?????? I disagreed. Maybe she misunderstood?

There's quite a selection. Maybe I'll get some dogwood next year.

The house building is not fun. I hate choosing things. I feel like saying, just finish it--please.

The dog posed HIMself. I planned to just take a tree picture. Now he likes to have his picture taken, seems like.

Please appologise to Him for me. I was just typing for my dogs. It's their fault.
 
When you buy small numbers of trees, like I did, they are 0.75 each. If you buy them bulk, by the bag, it is less. I think it is a public relations thing. They have free coffee and cocoa and a forester on hand. The forester told my friend to plant Ponderosa Pine in her wetlands area?????? I disagreed. Maybe she misunderstood?

There's quite a selection. Maybe I'll get some dogwood next year.

The house building is not fun. I hate choosing things. I feel like saying, just finish it--please.

The dog posed HIMself. I planned to just take a tree picture. Now he likes to have his picture taken, seems like.

You sure the forester didn't tell your friend lodgepole pine. They're planting that on the Quinault Indian Res in the wet areas. It grows as good as anything or better but no market for the logs when mature.
Good tree planting time, cold and wet. I planted two thousand on the place last year. Glad it's done. I hate that job.
 
After last years season planting for Roseburg Lumber. Never again. I so :censored: hate planting trees. It's nice to do on your property, you know a couple a hundred. But not half a million of the damn buggers.

I have to agree with that. We planted over 10,000 trees over 3 years in the frozen ground. We were sick of it after the first year. I gave up on using a hoedad and went with a Wolverene solid steel shovel. I also planted a few hundred willows a year from stakes I cut from trees up the river from us. Also have to tube the trees, and spray around trees with herbicide for 2 years after planting them. We used the FS85 Stihl trimmer to scalp the ground before planting. All very tiring work.

Seems late to plant; I would get the trees in February (which was late for planting season) when the big tree places shut down the refrigeration. We got good deals on cancelled orders and leftover stock. Most trees are out of are out of dormancy by now. Best trees, selection, availability and prices were from Brooks. Worst trees and availability were from the Phipps state tree place in Elkton, but they are out of business now.
 
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You sure the forester didn't tell your friend lodgepole pine. They're planting that on the Quinault Indian Res in the wet areas. It grows as good as anything or better but no market for the logs when mature.
Good tree planting time, cold and wet. I planted two thousand on the place last year. Glad it's done. I hate that job.

That's what I was wondering. They didn't have any lodgepole at the sale. She doesn't want to plant cedar because the resident elk herd eats it up.

Production tree planting is nasty. But it is one job where the steeper the slope the easier it is on the back.

The house is designed by a local guy, who adapted a plan I found in a book to our stricter building codes. The one in the book would not have met the earthquake standards. Then the builder, did some tweaking. It looks better than I thought it would. I wish I could afford cedar siding....but I'm trying to do it for a smaller budget. :cry:
 
SlowP. Looking good!

Siding, be wary of the wafer board composit sidings. They're junk. All of them. I used the 'new and improved' Weyco SureLok. I'm tearing it all off this summer and replacing it with cedar. It never lays flat, expands and contracts and breaks any sealant used around door and window surrounds.

It swells up and crumbles. Its junk.

Either use Hardiboard, T-111, or cedar. 5/8 T-111 would be an excellent choice, it will add strutural integrity, seals out bugs and moisture, and is easy to recoat.
 
I have to agree with that. We planted over 10,000 trees over 3 years in the frozen ground. We were sick of it after the first year. I gave up on using a hoedad and went with a Wolverene solid steel shovel. I also planted a few hundred willows a year from stakes I cut from trees up the river from us. Also have to tube the trees, and spray around trees with herbicide for 2 years after planting them. We used the FS85 Stihl trimmer to scalp the ground before planting. All very tiring work.

Seems late to plant; I would get the trees in February (which was late for planting season) when the big tree places shut down the refrigeration. We got good deals on cancelled orders and leftover stock. Most trees are out of are out of dormancy by now. Best trees, selection, availability and prices were from Brooks. Worst trees and availability were from the Phipps state tree place in Elkton, but they are out of business now.

Our tree planting guys. Normally the ones that get lent out to RFP, Seneca Jones, Swanson Group, D.R. and Plumb Creek. There all back, all alive.

I never really cared too much for the hoedad in a pretty open unit. Just seemed like a waist of time. But when it came down to planting in the brush or slash, they did a lot better. Granted I was the tree inspector. So I carrying one of them fancy Wolverene shovels. Broke 3 of them last year.

As for the Phipps trees! My god! Last year, some of the bags we got from them. Would only have 30 trees and still weigh 60lbs! Its a PITA trying to plant a 3ft tree that has a root spread of about 1.5ftx2.5. It was a joke!

All the Silver Mountain trees that the Cow Creek contractors planted. All of them are dead. They just wouldn't grow. So this year, all of those units we're replanted. Best nursery to plant from, IFA Canby.
 
Weyco had two sales this year. One in Feb. for which I didn't have the trees down and slash cleaned up, and the one this month. I'm not worried too much about it being late. These babies are close enough to water with a hose.

We never planted that big of trees, but we did wear two planting bags stuffed full, and then a daypack with water, gloves, munchies...etc. Sometimes I thought I would topple over backwards. Now I see the Exchange Students wearing 3 bags stuffed full. Sometimes, they have to be reminded to dip their trees in the water/vermiculite (which adds more weight) before placing them in the bag.
 
So I carrying one of them fancy Wolverene shovels. Broke 3 of them last year..

You broke... a Wolverene? Er, that is, three Wolverenes? JHC... The solid steel welded blue ones (DH12DP)? How did you do that? I have pounded on them, levered the crap out of them, drove over them with the Kubota, and banged on them. I use them to pull up established bamboo with. I can lever on them with all my weight (185 lb) and never broke or even bent one. I got a new one this year, 'cause the ex got the pair we had at her place. They have a 5 year warantee on them. They sell them at OBC in Canby. I used to buy tree stuff at Terra Tec, but they are ALWAYS out of stock on tubes and shovels and anything I ever need.

As for the Phipps trees! My god! Last year, some of the bags we got from them. Would only have 30 trees and still weigh 60lbs! Its a PITA trying to plant a 3ft tree that has a root spread of about 1.5ftx2.5. It was a joke!

Trees we got at Phipps all sucked. Older or younger than stated, scrawney, crappy, no roots, too many roots, always out of stock on what we ordered the year before, or even two years before. Many died. So I shopped around and started buying at Brooks. They had what we wanted, a lot cheaper, good size, and most all of them lived. Never went to IFA, but the tree nurseries up around here (in Canby, Aurora, Brooks) are pretty good.

All the Silver Mountain trees that the Cow Creek contractors planted. All of them are dead. They just wouldn't grow. So this year, all of those units we're replanted. Best nursery to plant from, IFA Canby.

I looked at all the Cow Creek stuff. The ex was on the soil and water board there and I used to go out on a lot of the Cow Creek development field trips. Lots of teraforming. I loved the feud between Merilyn Kittlemand and the 'Casino Tribe' as I called them. Lots of BS politics there in Doug Co. They wasted millions on the never to be built dam there in Yoncalla.
 
I like the plans for that house: big overhangs to protect the house from the weather.
 
I like the plans for that house: big overhangs to protect the house from the weather.


That is PNW style, and big windows for the living area. Some people put up that clearish fiberglass stuff on their eaves to let in more light. Or they cover the decks with it so the house isn't so dark on days like today, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...
 
I will mostly use the nearby biofuel from the biofuel pile. But it'll have electric for backup. I believe it will use a lot less biofuel than this barn I live in, even with that having a 10 foot high ceiling. Insulation and a ceiling fan should make it work well.
 

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