Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day

Re:Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day by vosper on Monday April 27, 2015 @11:15AM (#9446809)

I've been googling around, and I can't find anything online about the PLA-1. I even tried "russian tree planting machine". General searches for tree planting machines turned up this [1] at the top of the results, but they're only claiming a max of 4000-5000 plantings per day - much less than GP claimed for the PLA-1.

So, I dunno. GP sounds like they know what they're talking about, but I would still like to see some references.

[1] http://www.damcon.nl/en/machines/tree-planting-machines/tree...

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Re:Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day by ommunist on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:31PM (#9447810)

Look for ПЛА-1 and ПЛА-1А. Sorry, the abbreviation stands for Automatic Afforestation Device (Приспособление лесопосадочное автоматическое), designed at Institute of Forest in Homel. I worked there after university. At 6 km/hr and planting 2 saplings per meter it achieves 12 000 saplings /hr.

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Re:Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day by ommunist on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:53PM (#9447957)

This is Galmor Tree Planter with load of 10000 saplings -http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/ODW1002.pdf/$FILE/ODW1002.pdf It is not so portable comparing to its Soviet competitor.

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Re:Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day by ommunist on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:46PM (#9447911)

Oh, in the same source there is a new one - МЛА-1А «Илана». Can plant forests at 3,75km/h with same cassette feeder 4000 saplings per load on clearings _with_ tree stumps (if stumps density is below 600 stumps/ha.

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Re:Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day by vosper on Monday April 27, 2015 @03:09PM (#9448480)

That seems pretty impressive, actually. Are these machines being marketed outside of Belarus?

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Re:Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day by ommunist on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @02:38AM (#9450774)

No. No one tried to the best of my knowledge. I personally know to whom I may address your potential enquiry, but I doubt the existing process of decision making in Belarus will produce any fast answers. The best way is to go there and talk if you are really interested.

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Re:Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day by vosper on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @06:44PM (#9455546)

Thanks for the offer, but I was just curious. If the machine is really superior to what's on the market then it seems like a business opportunity for someone with know-how and industry contacts - but that's not me :)

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