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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Tree Shopping

the path to the plantation  where the trees are copming from. One of the advantages of our car, Tiny, is that even a goat track counts as a road. The process for buying trees is kind of convoluted. First an agent went round for a week inspecting local plantations, then we went out to inspect and negotiate. Once a price is settled, the plantation owner goes to the sector agronomist to get approval to cut the trees. With the certificate secured we could then get the trees cut and carried back to the house site. All of the tress managed to fit in the tree. Unfortunalty the weight hanging off the back was such that the front wheels could not control the truck
Posted by Hungry at 5:31 PM

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