I have foresty and MFR. Didnt get steve's carts. Guess Ill check their wikis.
With MFR, a tree farm is very easy.
First, you get a Harvester, a Planter, and a Fertilizer. You can look up recipes for both in NEI. To get the Plastic Sheets, you need to cook Rubber into Raw Plastic, then combine 4x rubber plastic in a square to get 4x plastic sheets. Yes, you will need to hook up a power supply, MJ works best, but if you have UE, that can also be easily converted to MJ in an Energy Cube.
You don't need any fancy shmancy upgrades, all you need is a single sapling of the appropriate tree type you want to harvest. When you bring up the interface, place one in the center of the Planter's color grid. Remember that the planter goes underneath where the sapling is going to be planted. There's several ways to produce Industrial Fertilizer. You can either start off with the combine recipe that involves bone meal wheat and some other stuff, or you can build an animal pen and a Sewer, then process the sewage into fertilizer via a Composter.
This is probably faster than even a Gala SC2 Tree Farm and certainly faster than Forestry's multiblock farm. You will need piping to move saplings from the harvester to the planter. This can be done via AE (export bus set to the appropriate sapling type on the planter if you are already hooking up an Import Bus to the Harvester) or via pipes (use a Diamond Pipe to filter the saplings, then run them through an Insertion Pipe hooked up to your planter, and finally ending up as biofuel or whatever).
Yes, I will be writing a guide on MFR on my blog once I get a chance to turn around twice.
