Machine-Planting Seedlings with Near-Checkerboard Precision
Trees machine-planted on cultivated sites can be aligned in checkerboard pattern by (1) setting several guide flags in each row to be planted, (2) setting three rows of baseline flags outside the plantation at within-row spacings parallel to the first row to be planted, and (3) advancing three rows of baseline flags across the plantation in leap-frog fashion every five rows as planting proceeds.
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Author(s): David F. Van Haverbeke
Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volumes 35, Number 4 (1984)
Section: General
Volume: 35
Number: 4
