Tuesday, 28 August 2018

Seeing the wood for the trees

I can never drive past a Cóilte forest anymore with thinking about how many times the trees have been handled. From planting in beds and cells, to tending ,to picking ,packing and delivering. and then they get planted in a field to harden before being planted in to create a forest. The planting is piece work and women are currently the fastest planters. Like on How it's made in a Grapefruit factory. The peeling was done by hand and only women did this section as they were timed the fastest. Men worked in other parts of the production line.
The man who lives in the shed across from the Glashouse(well in his camper in the shed) thought it looked like a war zone after the good trees were picked leaving the dead scattered in cells,the occasional avalanache from haphzard stacking.


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