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Cudahy Park / Cudahy City Hall complex, 5220 Santa Ana St, Cudahy, CA 90201

Plant a shade tree.

A planter digs a hole with a shovel at Cudahy Park / Cudahy City Hall complex, sets the tree's root flare at grade, then mulches it and waters it into a formed basin. Read all of it

Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $100 proposed.

Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
  • ProofGPS waypoint + before/after photos + mulch/watering-basin confirm + species/staking record
  • Open until2027-11-10
  • Levelintermediate
All of it: the words, the place, the proof

Plant a shade tree on the Cudahy Park grounds in Cudahy, CA. The park is this city's civic hub and one of its only real green spaces, but large stretches carry almost no canopy in a city with among the least park space per child in California.

Offer to pay $100. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.

What it looks like
A planter digs a hole with a shovel at Cudahy Park / Cudahy City Hall complex, sets the tree's root flare at grade, then mulches it and waters it into a formed basin.

A description of this kind of work, not a record that it happened here.

Where
Cudahy Park / Cudahy City Hall complex, 5220 Santa Ana St, Cudahy, CA 90201. Open the map
Pay
$100 proposed

This job is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price, not money held for the worker. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash: recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof
GPS waypoint + before/after photos + mulch/watering-basin confirm + species/staking record

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level
intermediate
Open until
2027-11-10
Posted by
0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

Safety, read before you claim

Start after the crew's safety orientation. The employer provides drinking water, shade and cool-down rests, and N95 masks when wildfire smoke puts the AQI at 151 or more. No other special training is needed. STOP, do not dig and reschedule if a buried utility is unmarked or suspected or the 811 locate is not honored; coordinate placement with City of Cudahy Parks & Recreation staff; wear safety-toe boots and leather gloves.

The full safety list for this job:

  • Do not dig or drive a stake without an honored 811 locate, hand-dig within 2 feet of any mark, and if a buried utility is unmarked or suspected, stop and reschedule; reject dry, circling-rooted, wounded or root-bound stock rather than plant it. Never plant in the public right-of-way without the City's planting approval or under an overhead line, two people carry any tree over about 50 pounds by the root ball, and wear gloves, eye protection and closed-toe boots with water and shade within reach.
  • Never plant into a right-of-way or overhead-line conflict; flag it for the site steward instead. Plant October to March; from May to September plant only with a named person and a hose or tank for the first summer, and never in a heat wave. Check the UC list for polyphagous shot hole borer hosts (box elder, willow, sycamore, liquidambar and others) before you pick a species where the borer is present, and never move wood chips or logs from a tree with pinhole entry holes and sawdust frass. Choose the tree for the space: mature height and width, roots near a sidewalk, and no fruit or limb drop over a walk. Pick up nothing from a hole that smells of gas.
  • Site briefing: who to call, where the first aid kit is, who holds the 811 ticket (Title 8 section 3203).
  • A quart of water an hour, shade at 80 degrees F and above, watch each other at 95 and above; digging a hole in July afternoon sun is this job's biggest heat exposure (Title 8 section 3395).
  • Check the air index; at 151 or more ask for an N95 and plan the dig for another day (Title 8 section 5141.1).
  • Call DigAlert at least two working days ahead, keep the ticket number, hand-dig within 24 inches of any mark; driving a stake counts as digging (Title 8 section 1541).
  • Two people or a hand truck for any tree over about 50 pounds, carried by the root ball, never the trunk (Title 8 section 3203).
  • Stay 10 feet from any overhead power line (verify the section in the high voltage orders); never plant or raise a tree pole under one (Title 8 section 2946).
  • Eye protection when a root or a stake can flick up (Title 8 section 3382).
  • No chainsaw, pole saw, ladder or climbing, and no pruning beyond dead or broken twigs at planting: tree work is Title 8 section 3420 and following, for a trained crew (Title 8 section 3420).
  • Gear, Title 8 sections 3385 and 3384: safety-toe boots for root balls and stakes of 50 pounds or more that can drop; leather gloves for rough bark, stakes and ties.
How this work is done

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

  • hand truck or carry straps and a second person for any tree over about 50 pounds
  • tarp for the spoil
  • tape measure
  • two stakes and wide flexible tree ties
  • eye protection
  • work gloves
  • 5-gallon buckets filled half
  • hat, sunscreen and a quart of water an hour

Steps

  1. Go to the Cudahy Park grounds spot the job's title names and record a GPS waypoint inside the posting radius. Confirm the 811 utility locate has been honored and that the chosen spot is on marked, utility-cleared ground.
  2. Confirm the host's written okay for this spot, species and stock size; that the species suits the space (no overhead line in the mature crown, not a shot hole borer host where it is present); the 811 ticket number; and a named person who waters for three summers.
  3. Agree the spot with City of Cudahy Parks & Recreation staff. Take a before photo of the bare spot. Note the shade tree's species from its label and set it beside the hole.
  4. Make a hole wide enough for the root ball and no deeper than it. Set the tree with the root flare visible at grade, backfill and firm the soil.
  5. Judge the stock before it leaves the truck: moist root ball, trunk firm in the soil, one central trunk, no wounds, no thick roots circling the trunk base. Reject stock that fails. Photograph the bare site and the tag with species and container size.
  6. Scrape the loose soil off the top of the root ball to find the true root flare (in a container it is often 2 to 4 inches down), measure from the flare to the bottom of the ball, and dig that deep and 2 to 3 times as wide. Leave the bottom undisturbed, rough the sides with the fork, and keep the spoil on a tarp off the walkway.
  7. Slide the tree out of the container. For a balled and burlapped tree remove the wire basket and all burlap and twine down to the root flare at least. Tease and straighten thin circling roots by hand, cut any root as thick as a pencil that circles or girdles with sharp pruners, and reject the tree when roots wrap the trunk base in tight spirals.
  8. Backfill with the native soil in layers and firm it with water, not boots. Do not bury the root flare, and add no fertilizer, gravel or pockets of compost; recheck the flare after the soil settles.
  9. Build a basin about 3 feet across and 3 to 4 inches high and water in about 15 gallons in slow passes. Mulch 2 to 3 inches deep, flat, with 3 to 6 inches bare at the trunk, using clean arborist chips only. Form a watering basin and water the tree in slowly.
  10. Stake only if the tree cannot stand on its own, and only after the 811 locate (a stake is a dig). Drive two stakes outside the root ball with wide flexible ties at the lowest height that holds the tree up, set a removal date at 6 to 12 months and name who removes them. Take off nursery tags, trunk wrap and the nursery stake tie at planting.
  11. Enter species, GPS, before and after photos, root-flare-at-grade confirmation, mulch depth, the tag photo, container size, a photo of the stakes and ties, and the first water as a bucket count into the proof record; sign. No pruning at planting except dead or broken twigs.
  12. Take an after photo showing the root flare at grade, then record the waypoint, mulch and basin, species and any staking in the proof.

What counts as done

  • GPS waypoint recorded inside the posting radius
  • Before and after photos showing the root flare visible at grade
  • Mulch applied 2-3 inches deep and held off the trunk, with a watering basin formed and watered in
  • Species and any staking (with a removal date) recorded
  • Close photo at the trunk base showing the flare at or just above grade against a ruler.
  • Photo of the bare ring at the trunk, the tag, and the ties.
  • Photos show no buried flare, no mulch volcano, no dished hole holding water against the trunk, no leaning tree and no ties tight enough to dent the bark.

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Tree Planting and Establishment. Planting a tree properly is a codified craft, and the arborists' standards are blunt about why: most young trees that die were killed at planting, by a hole dug too deep, a root ball left bound, a first summer without water. Mastery looks like trees you planted years ago still standing, which is the only measure arborists accept. The craft lives in exactly the steps this packet asks for: the wide shallow hole, the freed roots, the mulch kept off the trunk, the watering that follows. Plant one tree correctly and you know something real.

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