Hydraulic Tree Spade for excavator

[Jim Timber]

btw: The best way to get rid of a tree stump is to plant a raised flower bed over it. I recommended that to some friends in Toronto years ago, the garden is still there, but the willow tree stump is long gone.

I'm going to disagree with you there.

Planting a flower bed in the middle of a building site, or driveway are hardly viable options now are they?

What I was saying is that when I need to relocate trees; it comes down to cutting them down and grinding the stumps, because any other method isn't cost effective.


That you can transplant a seedling isn't revolutionary. Hardly even noteworthy. Little trees are great prospects for transplant and can be done with a bucket and shovel. It's when they get bigger that their water consumption grows and the root systems size, depth, and growth habit become critical for success of it's survival.

 

[Trials]

:laughing: no silly, the willow trees (2 of them actually) were in the front and back yard and they were afraid they were going to fall on the house, so they paid big bucks to have them removed and didn't want to drop the extra coin to have the stumps removed. They do have really nice gardens now though.

I'm pretty sure there is a market for trees of an appreciable size, but I'll let you know after I make some inquiries. For my own use, I know where I would like my maple bush to be located. preferably on the south facing slopes where there is a continuous downhill grade, all headed towards the sugar shack. :licking:

 

[Jim Timber]

My neighbor has a couple large pines within a few feet of his house walls. I'm trying to get some compensation out of him for taking them down, but so far that hasn't worked out - and so they remain standing.

 

[OldMcDonald]

Trials, I do not think that the size of the tree is so critical. More the after-care, and probably species ability to survive the shock. I knowmany olive trees of up to three feet diameter that have been dug out with an excavator and dropped into a hole. One place specialises in it for resale at an enormous amount of money. There is a line of about 20 between me and the nearest town that are not for resale. I had my doubts when almost all the branches were cut off and the trees replanted about five years ago. I do not know if it is the first year or not, but I saw them harvesting olives this year. No failures.

Is your excavator big enough to lift most of the trees you want to move?

 

[100 td]

Don't muck around with an excavator, get one of these!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IpUhMImWGo

 

[Jim Timber]

Don't muck around with an excavator, get one of these!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IpUhMImWGo

Usually when you have the elected thieves in a photo op, they spent too much.

 

[100 td]

I wonder how much! Nice bit of gear though!

 

[Jim Timber]

Yeah, those big spades are cool to watch. I just don't see how working with people I'd want to work with (not municipalities) would ever be profitable with that kind of nut to crack. Their idea of lean and mine are about $500K apart on the bottom line.

 

[Renze]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUn8-S2vGgo