Help-- marking avenue of oaks

[hazzygawa]

Please could anyone advise me how to measure and mark the distances between each 6ft oak.

 

It is in a large arable field and I am not quite sure where to start, oh and there 43 oaks to be planted.

 

Thanks for any help

[janey]

What's the length of the intended avenue and is it a single or double row?

[hazzygawa]

What do you mean by double and single ? How would I measure the length of the field? Sorry to sound a div.

 

Thanks janey

[janey]

Ha, you can try the ministry of silly walks method, where you set your stride to 1m and then pace the length of the soon - to - be avenue and make a good guesstimate of the length from the number of your paces.

 

Or, the more boring way is to use a large scale map and then measure the distance off of that. This method is nowhere near as much fun or as entertaining for any bystanders.

 

A single ave' is one single line of trees. A double ave' is where you have two lines of trees running parallel to each other, like what you would have either side of a road.

 

[hazzygawa]

Thanks again janey. That's a great help. I'm off now because my brain is full. Hehe

 

Would you eye in the trees to get them in a straight lines up the field and over the brow of the hill?

[janey]

Thanks again janey. That's a great help. I'm off now because my brain is full. Hehe

 

Would you eye in the trees to get them in a straight lines up the field and over the brow of the hill?

 

Can you see where the avenue is due to end from where you want to start, if you see what I mean?

 

If you can, then you can borrow the old Roman road building trick for straight lines.

 

Place a fencepost, stick, spade, willing or not so willing assistant, anything slim and vertical really in the starting position for your avenue (post 1) and another one in the finishing position (post 2). To get some more markers for the avenue in line with these first two, squat (if necessary) behind post 1 and visually line up post 2 until it cannot be seen as it will be directly behind post 1. You can now get a helper to add in more markers into this sight line while you keep checking that they are in line with 1 and 2.

 

I hope this makes sense?

[hazzygawa]

Good stuff, thankyou