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Use of Machines by Public, Private, and Industrial Foresters in South Carolina

I pick up seedlings at nursery in lots of 50M to 100M depending on whether using only one planter or more than one; heel seedlings in without breaking the bundles. Am sure that with seedlings tied 100 to the bundle, it would be better for the seedlings to break the bundles in the heel-in beds, but have found that when handling a large quantity for custom planting, it is just too hard, or impossible, to keep the count straight if the bundles are broken for heeling in. Also seedlings heeled in the trailer for transport to the field often get an unexpected bad jolt which throws them out of place. If they are in bundles, order can quickly be restored while if they are loose, much time and a good many seedlings are sure to be lost in the straightening up.


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Author(s): E. B. Price

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 6 (1951)