A question of trees on the battle field....
 

Currently when NEAD has a battleday, I pull out my boxes of pulled apart xmas trees and put them up for cover....the problem is the new battle "field" is dry as bone and hard as a rock. You have zero chance of pushing the metal ends of the trees into the ground by hand. Iwas forced to take a hammer and screewdriver punch holes into the ground.....tanks60 minutes to put up50 trees....Last battle, Bobbrought a drill and ceramic bit and that cut the "tree time" in half.....but we need more trees than we have and as the tree count goes up, so does the setup time.....I was thinking about another way and I came up with this.........

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Christmas Garland....Youcould cut it up into different sizes or getget different sizes.....It could be used as hedgrowsor to define roads. Toget enought cover, you would need to stack it butthere would be no majorsetup with it......

Whatdo you guys think?</p>

RE: A question of trees on the battle field....
 

Why not premount clusters to a cut piece of plyboard?

Then just throw out the preassembled tree clusters, easy to re-arrange and does not get pushed over by tanks!;)

Don't have pics, but works well for my battlefield setup.

RE: A question of trees on the battle field....
 

how think is the plywood?

RE: A question of trees on the battle field....
 

The boys from DAK brought these when we where demoing tanks on a concrete floor at RCX a few years back....

The thinner the wood the 'cleaner' it looks, but weighs less and is easier for the tanks to push around. Beveling the edges could help

You could drill two holes in in each base and use two spikes to stop the tanks from pushing them around. Still punching holes in the ground, but better than doing it for each tree.

RE: A question of trees on the battle field....
 

Yup, could just mount the tress on brown painted lengths of ply or even 2X2 or 2X4. 

RE: A question of trees on the battle field....
 

For our backyard set up, we took downed branches (about 1-2" thick) and just screwed them to scrap 1x4s and 1x6s.DFifferent lengths and individually. They were cut about 2' high, so they make a nice forest, but they are far too heavy to transport like that. They also could be knocked down by the tanks, which made for some cool battles, ie. knocking trees down to block roads, but like the real thing you (or at least Squidward) couldn't predict which way they'd fall.

I would think 1/4" ply would make nice bases for the Xmas tree parts, set in groups.