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

 

[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