After a slightly frustrating start to the season, with lots of faffing and weird specs, everything settled down a bit. We've had some really good land over the last couple of weeks and have been ma ma making up for lost time.
Last shift we ended up working a one day shift on some really easy land, so we decided as a crew to go for big numbers and personal bests. Since I'd made a three thousand tree day my goal for the season, this seemed like a good opportunity to give it a go. This was quite the under taking for me since my previous best was 2165, and on another day I might have planted 2450 poor so if we'd worked a full day, still more than five hundred short. We went out and had pretty good conditions all day. By 2.30pm I was at 2100ish, and I knew I could do it if I pushed. We switched land for my last bag up and a half which totally screed with my timing. With 30 minutes to go I was 200 trees short, but with one last push I got them in, only a couple of minutes late. 10 hours, 3000 trees. :-) ( or 5 trees a minute every single minute of the day, not accounting for breaks, rating or badging up ). Suffice to say I was a little shattered that night...
That's pretty insane. Well done! Obviously I've never experienced tree planting but just thinking about averaging 5/min is tiring.
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued - as PBs amongst you planters go, is 3k about as many as can be done in a day? What's the highest PB you've heard of for a single day?
very very late reply to your question, but no, i know one or two people know can keep up close to 3000 per day for some days at a time, but i was still pretty pleased. My boyfriends PB is 4100, and people have been know to do 5k+ days... goodness knows how...
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