Can you plant 10 million trees in a day?

[AgaBoogaBoo]

So they're just planting seeds I assume?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Eli
These aren't big trees.

Experienced forestry workers can plant over 1,000 trees per hour.

one every 3.6 seconds? i find that hard to believe.

In a well cleared area with soft ground, if the person was hustling alot, I can see it.

i'm assuming hand tools and that holes haven't been dug yet. i could almost see it if someone had a post hole digger, someone else was putting the trees in the hole, and then maybe another two people for filling in holes and bringing trees from the truck. one person? i can't see it.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i'm assuming hand tools and that holes haven't been dug yet. i could almost see it if someone had a post hole digger, someone else was putting the trees in the hole, and then maybe another two people for filling in holes and bringing trees from the truck. one person? i can't see it.

Note that my reply was before the state of the tree entered the thread. The forest service here uses 6" tall pine trees with bare roots and they just use one tool to plant them, a pick. Each person has thier pick and a bag of plants. When I said I could see it, it would be as a record breaking attempt style thing, not as anything sustainable throughout a workday or even done on a regular basis.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Given the rate at which trees are being cut down and forests are dying, planting trees is awesome.

Orly?!

I also watched a program on NGC that stated trees are growing at a 46% greater rate than we use in the US. Now, I doubt that is true throughout the world, but it's a myth that this country is stripping itself bare of trees like so many tree-huggers want us to believe.

 

[paulxcook]

So they're planting 10 million 4 ft tall saplings that were previously planted somewhere else, dug up, and brought to the site so that about half of them could die? Is this really that good of an idea?

 

[hypn0tik]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: hypn0tik
Given the rate at which trees are being cut down and forests are dying, planting trees is awesome.

Orly?!

I also watched a program on NGC that stated trees are growing at a 46% greater rate than we use in the US. Now, I doubt that is true throughout the world, but it's a myth that this country is stripping itself bare of trees like so many tree-huggers want us to believe.

That may be true but unfortunately deforestation is a global problem.

It's actually amazing that more trees are growing than being cut down in the US, but in other parts of the world it's not the case.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: ch33zw1z
too bad we can't make them grow any faster..

How many years does it take to go from sapling to full-size tree?

 

[Fern]

Dumbasses, they couldv'e made a lot of m...... scrap that.

OK, who wants to help me (and you) make a lot of money?

This is a carbon credit deal ready made. We can sell certificates representing a certain number of trees, and therefor carbon credits.

If Al Gore can, why not us?

Fern

 

[Rob9874]

10,000,000 trees by 600,000 people? That's 16 each. Two an hour for 8 hours. Not hard.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: xSkyDrAx
If you had 10 million people w/ 10 million trees you can do it quite easily.

That would be 10 million trees in an instant.
It doesn't take 1 person 1 day to plant 1 tree

Oh sure it could. If it's a government worker, it would take 3 days just to decide which kind of tree to plant.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: Rob9874
10,000,000 trees by 600,000 people? That's 16 each. Two an hour for 8 hours. Not hard.

as i said eariler, how in the hell would you go about getting the trees to the people to plant then coordinate with those 600K people of where to plant the trees?

cant be done in one day. sorry.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: paulxcook
So they're planting 10 million 4 ft tall saplings that were previously planted somewhere else, dug up, and brought to the site so that about half of them could die? Is this really that good of an idea?

They would have been grown on a Tree Farm where they'd have been too close to each other to grow to maturity. So it makes a lot of sense to replant them elsewhere .