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An Improved Planting Gun and Bullet: A New Tree-Planting Technique

The variety of forms in which the planting hoe, spade, and dibble have been designed attests to a general dissatisfaction with the hand-planting tools available. The introduction of the Lowther Tree Planting Machine1 was an important advance in forestry practice. The wide gap between the efficiency of the tree-planting machine and the dibble, hoe, and spade is tolerated for reasons usually associated with topography and logging debris. However, attempts to improve planting techniques have continued at a casual rate by individual workers and have been concerned largely with modifications to existing implements and with improvements designed to facilitate ball-planting of tree seedlings. Suggested improvements are exemplified by briquettes, sandwich planting, and polyethylene tubes.


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Author(s): John Walters

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 57 (1963)