Federated Farmers has released some facts and figures from the Farmy Army and Student Volunteer Army's joint clean up in Christchurch last week.

In seven days 2340 farmers, students and Christchurch residents, with the help of the New Zealand Army, cleared an estimated 100,000 cubic metres of silt from the battered suburbs - a daily average of 14,000 cubic metres of silt.

There were ten machines, 600 cars, countless utes and trucks,  900 wheelbarrows and 1750 well used shovels.

15 people worked from Saturday to Thursday preparing 1500 evening meals and some 1000 lunches. Many other individuals and organisations contributed staff, equipment, buildings and time to the effort.

"I feel very proud for the people, what they have done is a very humbling experience" said John Hartnell, Federated Farmers' earhquake spokesperson and clean-up organiser.

“Because you don't go there to get a pat on the back, you go there to get the job done; and there's the recognition from the smiles and the tears, to the scones to the shortbread. It's fantastic."