Good news and bad news, ugh my back

[jlbota]

Pineridge,

You may want to check into that 75 foot easement...I don't know who your power company is up north but we have AEP where I am in Ohio and they came through and trimmed last year. They cut a big swath through our woods cutting down and hacking up alot of nice pine trees. Needless to say I wasn't to happy because I wasn't informed they were doing this. So when I checked into it I was told that there had to be at least a 10ft distance on either side of the line to avoid falling branches which was the cause of alot of outages supposedly. So it seems 75ft may be a bit excessive unless there is a special circumstance to the lines running through your location.

 

[billbill1]

Mike, most golf coursed have tree spades and someone that could help you out. I think that a 6" diameter is the largest tree that can be spaded (if memory serves my feeble old mind) Are we going to have to start calling you Privetridge? Just doesn't have the same ring to it.

 

[goaliedad]

I would make very sure you do indeed have to move the trees before I did anything. If you do have to move them you may be able to barter with a tree company- trade them some trees for their services. Pines of that size should be pretty attractive for landscaping???
good luck!

 

[MikeD74T]

The bad news is that 53 six-to eight foot pine trees that are lining one side of our drive fall within the power line 75 foot easement corridor and will need to either be re-located by me or they will be used to make the chips.

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Several years ago I contracted cutting of nearly a mile of 150' right of way because the landowner would not allow herbicide spraying because it would kill all his blueberry bushes. The power company specification was to cut anything that could reach the lines in 5 years. You could check on your power co specs & keep your pines trimmed. I would think that 10' tall thick pine hedge would make an adequate snow fence ??? They have an easement, not absolute power over the land you pay taxes on.

 

[PineRidge]

As an update to our little tree predicament, tomorrow the local rental will be delivering a Bob Cat and hydraulic tree spade for our use. Over the weekend we'll be using it to relocate roughly 60 pines and move them out of the 150' electric easement on part of our property.

Never used a hydraulic spade before, but it's gotta be much quicker as well as easier on the pines themselves.

I'll see if I can get the better half to take some shots of the gang in action and post them the 1st of next week for you all to see.

 

[TOMLESCOEQUIP]

Mike......Take the spade & dig a hole with it where the first relocated tree will need to be. Set the dirt off out of the way somewhere that you spaded out. Then spade out the 1st tree & put it into the empty hole you first spaded out. Spade out another relocation hole & put the dirt from it into the hole where the first pine came from. repeat 60 or so times then you're done. You may have to tie back the branches on the pines to give you closer access with the spade. Water in each tree with a hose to eliminate any air pockets around the roots. In the end you will need to move 1 bucket of dirt from the first hole you dug to fill in the last hole...........unless you want to bury a tree service /power co guy in there instead ? I did about 60 trees the same way on my property in a day & only lost 1 tree !! In & out the same day & watering them in is the key & DON"T replant too deep. When you're done, come to my shop with the spade & move 6 or 8 for me that need relocated !!

 

[rswyan]

I'll see if I can get the better half to take some shots of the gang in action and post them the 1st of next week for you all to see.

I'll be there tomorrow night when they drop it off with the video camera to capture the practice session with the treespade.

This oughta be good ....... stay tuned, film at 11.

 

[PineRidge]

I'll be there tomorrow night when they drop it off with the video camera to capture the practice session with the treespade.

This oughta be good ....... stay tuned, film at 11.

Rswyan I'm actually having the equipment dropped off at your place. We're gonna practice on all your nice trees before we get around to moving ours.

Tomlescoequip thanks for starting me off in the right direction, I really appreciate that.

 

[rswyan]

Excellent !!!

 

[PineRidge]

The BobCat came rolling in Friday evening and since I had promised the wife dinner and a movie I didn't get a chance to fire it up until Saturday morning.

The second picture shows us laying out our strategy for the days work.

It's been a loooong weekend, and we got a lot accomplished. I'm dead tired and headed for the rack but I'll post some pictures tomorrow of before and after shots, so you can appreciate all the work that you can accomplish with one of these little tree spades.