Silver Mountain Christmas Trees Shake & Bundle Yard

(http://www.silvermountainenterprises.com)
Silver Mountain Christmas Trees has more than 3,500 acres planted in Christmas Trees, and developed the Silver Mountain Christmas Tree Nursery, the newest and largest Conifer Seedling Nursery in the Pacific Northwest. The farm also harvest approximately 250,000 trees each year, shipping fresh Christmas Trees throughout the U.S. and the world.
We grow noble fir, douglas fir, fraser fir, grand fir, and canaan fir. Our seeds are developed in our own seed orchard and planted using our Vacumn Precision Seeder. During the production of the first two years, the roots will be properly trimmed using our Reciprocating Undercutter Wrencher and our Lateral Root Pruner. All three of these machines were developed for our own use and are now sold throughout the world to other nurseries.
At two years of age, the Christmas Tree Seedlings are dug up from the ground, graded, packaged, and planted in the production fields. (Those for sale or later planting are stored in refrigerated coolers or freezers, depending on the length of time they need to be stored.) The trees will be watered regularly, fertilized, trimmed, and nurtured for approximately another six years until harvest.
Trees are then graded in the field by two-women teams, and then tagged for size and selection. They are now ready for harvest.
Crews will work through the fields cutting tagged trees. They are followed by the "slingers." These men and women stack the trees into a canvas sling, and then one of our two helicopters will lift the trees out of the field and take them to waiting transport trucks that carry them to the processing yard.
In the yard, each tree is shaken to remove loose needles, then bundled and drilled in the base so that customers may use spiked tree stands for greater stability.

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