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No worries on my end, Kave. Take care.

I found this sentence in a website about wildfire restoration: "..., the extreme heat also "glazes" the surface of the soil, literally melting the surface which causes the soil to repel water. The soil becomes hydrophobic." I have seen this, but not heard the term. We just called it...

I'm not familiar with the term, if it relates to wildfire effect on soils. I have heard it applied to the effect a shovel or planting hoe can have on the sides of a planting hole. Smoothing the sides of the hole with the blade of the planting tool inhibits moisture transfer and can be...

@Treeaddict Survival ranges from well over 90% to a little under 70%, usually. I have seen it be as high as 99%, and as low as 55%. Replants/interplants happen if the numbers of surviving healthy crop trees per acre are too low, like less than 250/acre or so here where I live. For comparison...

Link to a post of mine with some tree planting pics. https://www.masterblasterhome.com/threads/tree-felling-vids.11368/page-120#post-626555 And a description of the work. https://www.masterblasterhome.com/threads/tree-felling-vids.11368/page-119#post-626547

Sometimes yes, though I cannot recall ever needing to add more slash :D....in the contract language requiring such practices we call it "micrositing". On my side of the range, the western slope, there has in the past been little need for this. Historically weather was wet enough for healthy...

I tried to find a decent youtube video of reforestation planting with hoedads in the PNW, without success. One huge difference from what we see in Stigs pictures is the site prep. There it appears to be tilled, with no leftover forest product on the ground. He mentioned that the cultivator...