Giant Tree Spade

Xtra · Feb 3, 2007

The Discovery Channel has a new show - Really Big Things.
Last week they showed Davey operating their world's largest tree spade. They picked up and transplanted a full grown tree (they said it was a 70' tree . . . not sure about that one).

Here's some info of the the tree spade on Davey's site . . . the spade is huge.
http://www.davey.com/cgi-bin/displayContent.pl?type=section&id=472

The show will air again 2/24/07 @ 10am est
http://dsc.discovery.com/tvlistings/series.jsp?series=25279&gid=0&channel

There's also a show where they visit a papermill.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=1&cpi=25279&gid=0&channel=DSC
Miss it this morning, I heard it was good . . . look for re-runs.

The show's host is kind of a buffoon, but they show some cool stuff.

osb_mail · Feb 3, 2007

Yeah I saw it

That tree was no where near 70'. The spade is only 100 inches so it could only move a tree not much bigger than 10 inches . That is figuring 10inches root ball to 1 inch trunk caliper.Here is the 80inch tree spade we have at work it is 6 wheel drive.drive.http://www.rockyfork.com/images2/Keswick Tree Planting.jpg

Xtra · Feb 3, 2007

Nice, 6 wheel drive high floatation.

Yeah, I'd put the tree they did at maybe 30'.

BostonBull · Feb 3, 2007

There was another show on Discovery called Mega Machines. On it they showed a spade doing a transpalnt at a University in Texas, maybe A&M? Dont remember. But on that show they said they had the bggest spade in the WORLD! They said there were only 2 like it in the country and only 5 worldwide. I forget how bi it was but I remember the tree they moved on that show for the campus was some ridiculous size like 20-24"!! Ill seewhat I can find out about it.

BostonBull · Feb 3, 2007

Found it.....check them out they say they have moved trees up to 40", but it doesnt say whether it waswith a spade or not. They do however say their spade is capable of well beyond 18". They have some pics of Red oaks and other well over 60'.

http://www.treemover.com/index.cfm

It says on the site they have designed and patented the largest spades inthe country all the way up 168".