Treeplanters generally have pretty limited scope of conversation. Mostly they talk about numbers of trees they have planted in various days or seasons or provinces. Here is one of the most interesting (ok, the only interesting) discussions of tree numbers I’ve seen on the planter bulletin boards:

http://www.plant-a-tree.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Notice the old timer who figures himself at above 2 million (!) trees over his many seasons, and be sure to read Ken Chaplin’s post regarding his recent record setting 15,000 tree day. “Setting the record is never an impossibility, or a pipe dream; just an issue of the right place, right time, and right circumstances.”

Interestingly, that may not settle that debate, there is a follow up post about a claimed 16k day by some baller from down under.

For the record, I reckon about a quarter million seedlings have been midwifed by my left hand here. Amazing I can still type. Or think. Well, okay, type.

Yikes, I’m talking about planting again.