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Manually Plant Weeping Willow Tree

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What happens here

The presenter chooses a wet spot on the farm, noting that weeping willows thrive in such conditions. Although they have a tractor-mounted auger, the area is too wet for the tractor, so they opt for manual digging. The presenter demonstrates how to use post-hole diggers, loosening the soil and removing dirt. His helper then takes over, digging the hole deeper. Once the hole is dug to an appropriate depth, the weeping willow tree is carefully placed, and water from the blue bucket is poured around its base to help settle the soil and provide initial moisture.

Goal: The presenter and his helper manually dig a hole using post-hole diggers in a naturally wet area and plant the weeping willow, then add water.

Tools and materials

  • Bucket
  • Post-Hole Diggers
  • Shovel
  • Water
  • Weeping Willow Tree

What they say

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strong enough to lift it but for just this one tree we're just going to dig a hole right here with the post hole diggers just that easy it's kind of hard to kill a willow but we've got a couple willows I even thought about planting maybe two willows down here and whichever one did the best keep it and the other one let her go so let's get busy digging first thing I'm gonna do is show Steve here how I dig a hole with the post hole diggers and the next thing I'm gonna do is hand it off to him you get to watch him do it so learning this kind of stuff even though it's just using a post hole digger folks don't use this stuff folks don't know guys you want to hear something really funny the girl at tractor supply that rang us up did not know that apples grew on trees I wonder what this person thinks when they're driving down the road and they see an apple orchard do they just not know or they don't care I don't know guys teach your kids that stuff when you're driving down the road put down the tablet and teach the kids with their passing soybeans cotton corn what are they seeing what type of grass is it what types of trees are these teach your kids these things guys I can't believe that we're losing this in our society I cannot believe as easily accessible as knowledge is our society seems to be dumbing itself down for some reason I really don't see how that can happen so once again we're gonna learn together how to use the post hole diggers he knows how to use a pair of post hole diggers but he hadn't used it in about 20 years so it's kind of like wiping your butt with your left hand you just got to figure it out Oh hopefully YouTube doesn't D monetize that because I said wipe your butt so you see what to do here and kind of loosen your spot up right there and take it loose dirt out if you got roots which you probably will just cut through them a little bit guys I'm much better at supervising just much better you know some people are just natural workers and some people are just natural supervisors I'm a natural supervisor born and raised in the wilds of Southwest Virginia back into country yeah big rock little rock yeah big rooting honey ain't gotta be much deeper so we got our tree in the ground it's on to the next task around the farm where we planted grass seed everything's looking great here let me show you so we're getting some good pretty green grass coming up but in some

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