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From October 24 to October 27, 2016 Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow, will host the VIII International Forum “Forest and Man” where the representatives of the countries of Europe, America, Asia, the Russian companies, national industry associations from around the world are to meet.
The aim of the forum is to discuss the topical issues of timber industry development, to search for effective solutions to the key problems of the industry. This year the motto of the forum is the “Investments in innovative development and in environment”. The program includes the plenary session, round tables, and seminars. The participants will also visit the international specialized exhibition “Lesdrevmash 2016”.
The specialists of the Laishevskoye Forestry together with the students of Laishevsky Technical School were engaged in the additional planting of young trees in the quarter 13 of Yantykovskoye District Forestry. The trees were planted on the territory of 10 hectares. The activists planted the planting material using a special hand tool – Kolesov’s planting iron.
This is the main tool at the forest plantation. In the CIS countries the most forestries use LPL-5.5 for manual planting of various trees seedlings in an industrial scale in areas where it is impossible to use the machines. The abbreviation LPL-5.5 means a tree-planting shovel weighing 5.5 kg. But this name is rare; much more common is Kolesov’s planting iron. Currently, the use of tree-planting shovel is the most convenient and fastest way to manually plant the trees. The tree-planting shovel was invented in 1883 by Alexander Kolesov. He was the Director of Kharkov Agricultural School. A forest nursery was founded at school, and for the convenience of young tree planting Kolesov invented LPL-5.5. His attempts to find a simple and convenient tool for pine seedlings planting had many times no luck. The first shovel (Kolesov’s planting iron) weighed only about 2 kg, the size was twice as small as LPL-5.5, and its life lasted only a year. The service life of today’s Kolesov’s planting iron is about a decade. So, by trial and error, having tried and made dozens of shovels for planting, the agronomist has finally found a unique variant of form, weight and dimensions which could facilitate and accelerate the process of pine seedlings planting.
When using the Kolesov’s planting iron, the seedlings should be planted by two people. The one who operates the planting iron is called a shoveler, and the other who dips the tree seedlings into the well is a planter. The first thing the workers should know that the seedlings must be planted in pairs only. Before starting, each worker should be familiar with the operating process chart. The distance between the workers should be at least 2.5 m. The legs of the worker who holds a planting iron should not be on the way of the shovel movement. If on the way of tree-planting shovel there is an obstacle such as a stone or a root, the planting location should be moved. The main rule of occupational safety is a careful study of the process.
As part of the campaign the “Clean Forests of Tatarstan” the experts of Zeya Buylary Nature Sanctuary together with the pupils of the Secondary School No.6 of the Buinsky District have cleaned up the nature sanctuary of Mokraya Savaleevka Village. The activists have cleared the forest from littering, fallen trees and dead wood. In the course of the event 1.5 cubic meters of garbage were removed.
The autumn stage of the campaign the “Clean Forests of Tatarstan” started on September 15, 2016 and will last until November 15. Every year the executive authorities of the Republic of Tatarstan, teachers, students, educational institutions, commercial organizations, youth associations, and residents of the republic took an active part in the forest cleaning.