Plows to Precede a Tree Planting Machine
Results with planting machines were reported to be unsatisfactory because brush and other debris hindered their operation. It occurred to us that a practice used in Minnesota might prove successful under such conditions. Both the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company and the Chippewa National Forest have planted brushy areas with the following equipment: a crawler type tractor with a Minnesota pusher plow mounted ahead and a Lowther planter pulled behind. The plow is equipped with a shoe and is so mounted as to ride on the ground surface. Its sole purpose is to clear away brush, slash, down logs and similar debris ahead of the planter. It has done this quite successfully. Presumably an Olympic plow could be used in the same manner, but under our conditions the Minnesota plow is preferred.
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Author(s): Paul O. Rudolf
Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 14 (1953)
