A high yield automatic tree planting machine

The labor shortage, the need to increase the forest density and the great increase in surface for planting trees has led to a reflection in R&D. This article discusses the abilities of a tree planting machine which works automatically. The need to design this type of machine was due to the massive exploitation of forests done by the wood industry and subsistence farming. The device which is hitched up to a tractor can plant in the presence of tree stump and vegetable wreckage. Several hydraulic actuators work in parallel to enable the plantation of one tree per second (a machine with two planting organs). The planting organ has been designed to plant trees without stopping the tractor.