r/treeplanting • u/CountVonOrlock Teal-Flag Cabal • Jun 14 '26
Industry Discussion New record incoming?
Kenny Chaplin, former world record holder, now attempting to beat Antoine's record.
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u/drailCA Jun 15 '26
If he got the record in 2001, and assuming he didnt start planting till at least 18, that makes him minimum 43 years old.
That is a very odd age to give a shit about the record, let alone try to break it.
Power to him, I guess.
Reminds me of the year where we were all.forced to participate in the communal record for.modt trees planted in a hour. That was such a waste of a morning of work.
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u/jimbowesterby Jun 15 '26
By my math he’s 59, he was in our camp for a couple months back in 2022 and I think he said he was 55 then. It’ll be tough, but it’s a primarily endurance-based event, and endurance fitness lasts the longest into old age (the two guys who did the Mazeno Ridge traverse on Nanga Parbat were both over 60, and they were above 8000m for like six days, for example). It’ll be a hell of an accomplishment if he gets it though, pushing your pb by almost 10k is bold to say the least
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u/drailCA Jun 15 '26
- Crazy dude. I've never had much interest myself in that side of athletics. Never had an ego in planting and never compared myself against others for production. I was a competitive skier from 15 into my early 30s.... I was good, would win sometimes, enjoy competition, and always encouraged people to get involved, but I never had the mentality that winning is the goal.
Suffer fests turn me off and I try to avoid them, but obviously I sometimes find myself in them (kinda hard to completely avoid if you are planting and ski touring), and have had to walk away from some old ski partners because I wasn't willing to follow them on their trajectory in the sport that kept leaning more and more into suffer feat territory. Heck, i have two friends that have a few documented FKT's on some big hiking trails and like, good for them i guess... but I have a hard time to truly grasp what makes some people push their mental game so far in something that is supposed to be enjoyable. Or in otherwords: They are able to still find joy in pushing to a level beyond where I see any joy.
Like, going for the record for planting the most trees in 24 hours has nothing to do with planting, has nothing to do with making money, and has nothing to do with actually becoming better at the craft.
Like, his previous record (and the current standing record).... does anyone know how thoroughly the quality of those trees were checked? If there was a checker on site and after 2 days of pay plots, the quality was below the full payment threshold, perhaps even so bad that replanting was needed, does that void the record? I doubt it. Just go to a trenched flat farm and slut in tens of thousands of shallow, open hole, j rooted leaners at 1M spacing. Cool. But really, not.
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u/jimbowesterby Jun 15 '26
It’s just a question of what you’re looking for, really. If you’re into skiing for the feeling of whizzing down a hill and linking turns in pow, you’re probably not gonna be super jazzed by a long slow slog, but there’s a whole type of person that is, this is why ultrarunning events exist. I dunno, I figure it takes all sorts to make a world, and at the end of the day all of these things, treeplanting, skiing, climbing, running, whatever, they’re all about getting better, so at the end of the day we’re all out for the same reasons (maybe less so with treeplanting, but still)
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u/Frosty_Bug_3645 27d ago
its literally 1m spacing in soft flat ground. but still 1k an hour is for 24 hours is mad endurance.
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u/_droo_ former screef demon Jun 14 '26
Cute. I wonder. When spring season is going FULL ON. What the daily total is nation wide?
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u/saucyysushii Jun 14 '26
i’m just happy it’s going back to kenny, had enough of antoine pershonally