An Easier Way to Track our Tree Maintenance
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The document discusses Keep Indianapolis Beautiful's gravity-fed watering trailer program. It details the setup of the trailers which include a 15-passenger van, hydrant meter, hose, safety lights, 525 gallon water tank, spigots, and buckets. The document also provides the costs associated with the horse trailer, parts, and lighting. It notes that each crew consists of 2 adults and 8 youth and that during the summer 600 trees are watered over 15 hours by each crew with a schedule of watering Monday through Wednesday and enrichment on Thursdays.
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An Easier Way to Track our Tree Maintenance
- 1. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org Gravity-Fed Watering Trailers Nate Faris DirectorofCommunityForestry Keep IndianapolisBeautiful nfaris@kibi.orgKeep Indianapolis Beautiful at
- 2. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org The set-up
- 3. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org 15 Passenger Van (with 10,000 lb. towing capacity)
- 4. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org Youth Love Hydrants
- 5. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org Hydrant Meter
- 6. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org Wrench
- 7. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org Hose & Safety Lights
- 8. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org Tank, Spigots, Buckets
- 9. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org Filling buckets
- 10. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org Filling buckets
- 11. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org 40 pounds of water in each hand
- 12. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org Where the water meets the tree
- 13. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org ITEM COST Horse Trailer $5,200.00 Pintal Lock Assembly $25.00 Lock for Pintal Assembly $125.00 525gallon tank $508.50 Drainage parts $169.24 Filling parts $142.32 Traffic ControlLights $1,504.94 Batteryfortraffic-safety lights $160.00 Solar Panel forbatterycharging $200.00 KIB logo installation $400.00 License Plate $50.00 Title $15.00 Commercial Vehicle Excise Tax $5.50 WheelTax $10.00 TOTAL $8,515.50
- 14. KeepIndianapolisBeautiful· 1029FletcherAve, Suite100, Indianapolis,Indiana · 317-264-7555·www.kibi.org 1 Crew = 2 Adults + 8 Youth 1 Summer Crew: waters 600 trees in 15 hours. Summer schedule: Watering: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (5 hours per day) Enrichment: Thursday (5 hours) Spring and Fall Schedule: Saturdays (8 hours) Private contractors used as supplement KIB currently has 4 vans and 4 trailers. In the summer, we hire 8 crews. Each van & trailer has a morning crew and an afternoon crew.
Editor's Notes
- Talk about need for maintenance tracking Start story about meeting Libbby
- Decided to move away from paper tracking to digital using a combination of formstack and google drive (could just use Google forms) Story about first meeting with Libby way back when
- Paper Waste! Tough reading chicken scratch Long hours of data entry Would get wet
- Used Spreadsheets to start but too cumbersome on the ipads and whole file could be deleted which is why we started using forms GPS unit is pricey and can only do one thing, also not as accurate as iPad GPS info
- Importance of data tracking – city $ and reporting out Tree Health
- Building of the form is relatively easy and straightforward. We created forms for our work, our staking and our water use.
- Save and Resume feature helps if crew is at a hydrant for multiple hours, reduces chance of losing initial water meter number. Confirmation page to check numbers
- Note that you must click use your current location every time so that the GPS coordinates reload to the current position Allows us to create aggregated maps of all of our tree stakes Previously, these were tracked loosely on paper
- Given to people in the community (City Forestry officials and coworkers) Allows coworkers and partners to instruct YTT on what work needs to get done in terms of mulching, pruning, dead tree removal, staking, etc. Urgency allows us to determine what we do first.
- Google Drive collects all of the information for these forms and puts them into organized spreadsheets Easily accessible in the field or at home
- Water Log gives us an automatic timestamp and location of the hydrant
- The list of stakes is more detailed than ever before and allows us to make informed decisions about when to go out to remove stakes (minimum of one year on the tree)
- Weakness – Cost of data plan, but also car chargers and ipad cases, etc. Training was difficult with youth Google Sheets could be used Data could just be entered directly into excel or google sheets spreadsheet, but that is too easy to delete or improperly input information so standard form was created for each task Stake log is more steps/water log is more steps because they both require entry into work log as well but it allows us to quickly access accurate information including GPS coordinates
- Strength – Alt Task Request form given to public officials as well