Planting whips

[PhilBeech]

On reasonable ground, how many whips / bare root transplants could 1 man plant in a day with tubes, stakes and ties.

 

Ta.

[daveindales]

depends on size of tubes, but a couple of hundered each man should easily be attainable

[Matthew Storrs]

On reasonable ground, how many whips / bare root transplants could 1 man plant in a day with tubes, stakes and ties.

 

Ta.

 

I would say between 15-20 per hour, roughly 4 mins per plant, so about 100 per day depending on how much tea you drink!

[daveindales]

I would say between 15-20 per hour, roughly 4 mins per plant, so about 100 per day depending on how much tea you drink!

 

do you only work about 5 hours a day down south:001_tt2:

[PhilBeech]

I had allocated 174 a day so that's all good then lol

[Matthew Storrs]

didn't think it would be long before someone picked up on that calculation:blushing: going on 6 hours planting plus a few hours to allow for any prep work/ unknown factors, breaks etc

[ScottF]

I'd say at least 350 a day, Phil. Planted a few million of the blighters in my youth...

 

Provided you're not on horrific soil or a v steep slope.

[Jimbob87]

My lads never do as much as i think they should but in reality more than enough lol we work on 250 per man in good going

[ScottF]

The trouble is keeping the lads on this sort of planting work to get good at it- there seems to be a really high turnover of guys doing this sort of work, at least up our way. There's one local firm and whenever I see his guys doing roadside planting, I never see the same faces twice.

[Big J]

I did a week a couple of years ago as a complete novice, digging, planting, staking and tubing each sapling. Was up to just over 200 a day, but that was on fairly tough ground.