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For planting, we used something like this, but a bit more basic:



You'd be given that tool and a quiver full of whips (for softwoods) or saplings (for hardwoods like beech) and set loose on rows of very hard-packed soil compacted by heavy machinery, usually recently clear-felled of old growth, each a few hundred yards long. We had a lot of ground to cover, so you couldn't spend much time on each tree. You'd drive the tool in as best you could and hope not to hit a boulder, which could give you a bit of a jar, wiggle it back and forth hoping to open up a slit, bend down and shove the roots in, stamp it down, then move on a pace or so to the next.

I think I can remember enough of where we planted to pick out some devilishly challenging terrain. Some of those plantations might be at least partially harvestable by now.