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 ommunist on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:59PM (#9448003)

Well, here is traditional way. 16 kg tool - planting sword. No kids allowed. Up, down, turn to yourself, put sapling turn from yourself, up, step forward, repeat. 8 hrs straight, 2 breaks 30 min each. Roughly 30 sec/sapling is bad speed. 1000 saplings per man/day. Modern tech is better, when you plant pots into machine-made hole, but I never practiced that.

UPD: here is the video instruction for this process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6MhT7dbB1c

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Re:Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day by jonah on Monday April 27, 2015 @07:07PM (#9449676)

Nice demo. Here's a video of guys doing it at production speed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU-7NffSSHk

Another common tool (in the US at least) is the Hoedad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1gPVuITMgc

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Re:Startup attempting to use drones to plant 36,000 trees a day by ommunist on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @02:42AM (#9450780)

Thanks! That's a good one. These peons are using very light version, probably 6 kilos or such. The original Kolesov's planting sword is very heavy. But mind the Darth Vader style of breating in that video. This is very true.

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