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Message: <blockquote data-quote="( deleted account )" data-source="post: 217734" data-attributes="member: 5993">Sure longshot. Where u located?  Come borrow and use this one and make like a Chinese company and copy it!    Actually I originally used a chunk of flighting I got at the scrap yard when they used to let old retired inventors tinkerers pick up all kinds of goodies to tinker with.  Welded a 1/2 inch rod on one end then hardened it to chuck into my 18 v drill. Then welded some hardened steel for 5he cutting end, though it doesn’t have to be very sharp except in hard ground.another time I just used a commercial sprawl Mart bulb planter that I also used foe setting raccoon traps.  Put a crank in the end. Worked ok in soft ground but was a bit soft and bendy with its Chinese steel. The flighting and holes should be about 3 inch plus wide.  Seems narrow to spread the roots very wide, but the trees don’t seem to mind. I use a simple 18 v de Walt drill, walk along drill a hole, sometimes dump some water down it, insert roots and angered dirt, tamp and move on. The enemy of those roots is air, so take care to get the air out and replace with dirt and don’t plant them too deep.  Too shallow, even with a bit of the tops of the root ball is supposedly better than too deep, i wonder if some of these drill powered ice augers would work well. I might have an old one around here for giveaway.  My heaviest planter I salvaged from a burned out hand held gas engined planter. Simple mod to weld a shaft to chuck in a drill. It’s around someplace in my messy shop, too! I’m a pack rat, and rarely throw anything away!- - - Updated - - -Wow! You are right! Unless you love to tinker and fabricate I’d go for these!  Being a trapping supply company, I wonder if they  market them for tree planting or raccoon traps, or both.</blockquote>

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