Silver Mountain is a fully integrated Christmas tree operation. We grow trees from seed, and sell both seedlings and mature Christmas trees. We also design and sell nursery equipment tailored to the tree industry.
Silver Mountain
Christmas Trees
4672 Drift Creek Road, SE
Sublimity, Oregon 97385
503-769-7127
800-952-3905
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Silver Mountain Christmas Trees has made every effort to grow beautiful, long-lasting Christmas trees, so naturally it is critical to us to see that the trees are carefully harvested, bundled and delivered to you in the shortest amount of time possible.
Trees are graded, measured and tagged by a two-person team. These grading tags double as a retail price tag and have care instructions on the back for your customers. Next, cutters move into the field, followed immediately by teams who load the cut trees into large slings. The slings of cut trees are then airlifted out by helicopter to transport trucks, and taken directly to our processing area—the airlift minimizes possible damage to the trees that might occur otherwise in moving them down the mountainside.
In the processing area, every Christmas tree is shaken to remove any dead needles, and then they are bundled and the base is drilled for spike stands. The trees are sorted by size and then loaded into cartridges and sent to the palletizer (unique to Silver Mountain) where they are palletized into bundles of 20-45 trees, depending on sizes. This makes for more efficient shipping, less handling and much less damage to the trees. Palletizing is much more efficient than the traditional baling method common at other Christmas tree farms.
Once palletized, the trees are loaded directly into the trucks for shipping. In most cases, once a tree is tagged and cut, it is palletized, loaded, and sent on its way to you within 48 hours.
