tomtrees58
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100 year old oak tree move
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sgreanbeans
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When I bid a job that has a property line, I always explain the legal part and the cost to replace. Most HO's think I am crazy when I tell them that it IS possible to replace that big oak tree in their yard!
I would like to see it in a few years. You can move anything, the trick is keeping it alive.
imagineero
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+1 on that. I can't imagine the long term success rate is very high on something like that. Even though it was only 1500 (feet,yards?) the soil condition, interaction with other plants nearby etc has an effect on a tree that age. From the size of the box which looked to be only about half way to the drip zone, they probably didn't get all the primary roots. That's a lot of trauma.
They did alright getting it moved, but a month seems like a long time. I'm guessing most of the time was in excavating and constructing the box. When I was in the mines I used to move bins weighing about 180,000lbs with not much more than a fork lift. Some structural steel, bisalloy plating and enough load skates can get anything rolling.
Biggest tree ever moved was old glory, weighing in at an estimated 916,000lbs. It was moved 1/4 of a mile at a cost of $1million. This is the health care equivalent of spending all the money on senior citizens while euthanasing the .
That same amount of money could have been used to plant a million small trees, which I could later cut down at enormous profit. WIth the money I earned, I could have built the mother of all tub grinders, and the biggest sky crane helicopter in the history of the world. Could have picked old glory up in one take, dropped her straight in the tub grinder and been done before lunch.
Shaun
They did alright getting it moved, but a month seems like a long time. I'm guessing most of the time was in excavating and constructing the box. When I was in the mines I used to move bins weighing about 180,000lbs with not much more than a fork lift. Some structural steel, bisalloy plating and enough load skates can get anything rolling.
Biggest tree ever moved was old glory, weighing in at an estimated 916,000lbs. It was moved 1/4 of a mile at a cost of $1million. This is the health care equivalent of spending all the money on senior citizens while euthanasing the .
That same amount of money could have been used to plant a million small trees, which I could later cut down at enormous profit. WIth the money I earned, I could have built the mother of all tub grinders, and the biggest sky crane helicopter in the history of the world. Could have picked old glory up in one take, dropped her straight in the tub grinder and been done before lunch.
Shaun
CJ-7
ArboristSite Operative
I love that video. Very well done and with appropriate background music. To commit a lot of money (or maybe volunteer contractors and equipment rental companies?) to save a live landmark like that big old oak is admirable. But frankly I couldn't get past gaping at the equipment and technique to slide a half million pounds across the ground and into a new hole. And the cranes necessary to lift that monster out of its original hole. Amazing.
Youngbuck20
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Should have just hooked the F-250 up to it.
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