How to Transplant Mature Trees | This Old House
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- This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook uses muscles and machines to safely move trees to new locations. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Shopping List for How to Transplant Mature Trees:
- burlap, for wrapping root ball
- jute string
- compost, sand and topsoil, used as backfill
- starter fertilizer
Tools for How to Transplant Mature Trees:
- yellow ribbon, for marking best side of tree
- twine, for trussing tree branches
- pointed shovel, for removing dirt
- spade fork, for excavating around root ball
- crimping tool and metal clips, used to join together pieces of burlap
- forklift
- compressed-air excavation tool, used to bare-root transplant a tree
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An update from the homeowner…. Yes all the trees are still alive and thriving! The pine is an umbrella pine and a beautiful tree! We are so thankful to ATOH crew for the hard work and amazing job that they did!
If this was a true comment, how did you get them to come to your house?
@@venividivici4253 submitted a question to their website.
@@brooksday8407 Cool. Thanks :)
what was the cost on this project if you dont mind me asking. (ball park)
Good to hear. Robert knows trees like the back of his hand.
Very nice video, not just talk (Lecture) but this old house action as we go style
homeowner: i want that big tree ova thare and that one over heayuh.
cost 4800$
Nice job on the accent.
A lot more than 4,800 probably 8-10k lots of workers and man hours expensive machines
Too funny..great accent!
Cuoohrst
Nurseries fail to do an important and simple thing to avoid losing trees to shock. They fail to flag the south side of the tree before they dig it up. If you flag the south side of the tree before you dig it up and are careful to keep that orientation when you plant it you will suffer a lot fewer deaths due to shock.
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Why is that?
@@ilikelampshades6 south facing aka sun facing side. Trees to do 180's in nature unless there is a hurricane or something crazy. Imagine your whole life you got only a tan kn your stomach. Then 25 years later someone turns you over and now your back is getting sun.
@sab249 aww thank you for the explanation
What do you mean by flag?
@@worldview730 Tie a ribbon or spray a little paint etc. to mark the south side.
"This next part of the process is critical". So we make sure to really skim through it fast.
He actually destroyed the tree in real life, because it was suppose to be done by the air thing...Hashtag #Save a tree 2018
@@joli78363No he didn't. The homeowner gave an update and all the trees are alive & well.
Bet the neighbors were confused, "wasnt that tree over ther- and that one, what the heck"
Not mother nature though, she was pissed off about the whole thing
@@worldview730Ma nature was probably confused too!!
@@birgip.m.1236 Only humans are confused, Ma Nature is wired for perfection
Absolutely hard work! Amazing stuff.
That’s incredible!
It would of been way cheaper to hire someone with a tree spade. But I am glad you told her to water her trees. We get sooooooooo many people who claim they water their trees but you can clearly tell it haven't been watered at all lol
They make it seem easy
very nice work.
I am wanting to move a 60 year old conifir horizontalis.. I was going to move it in spring , I was going to feed and water it for a few months cut some foiliage off to help it and then dig it out. However i quite like the air technique. Any advice from anyone has to how to move my horizontalis? My late Dad planted so I want to move it away from my pool as my pool is constantly green in summer from it.😮
How did they get the burlap under the pine? They probably tipped it, but it would have been better to show the difficulty. They make these big jobs look too easy by not showing every step.
They use 2 pieces of burlap there is no burlap underneath
wonderful idea
Heck with shovels. I'd have one of those trucks with the big tree grabbers hanging off the back, plunge into the ground and pick up that whole tree with the dirt and drive it to its new home.
How did they dig under the tree to get the burlap through?
they stapled two burlaps together around it?
Excellent :)
I assume you had to cut the tap roots right underneath. does that have a impact?
Very interesting.
Whaaaa?! no taaarrrhhhpp for the soil youre digging up?!
How to Transplant Mature Trees? Pay a landscaping company (with a lot of very expensive equipment) a TON of money and sit back and enjoy a warm beverage while they do the hard work.
How do you avoid killing it when u have to cut the tap root
Bill Burr would love this guy's accent. Staaaaaht!
Staatah Fertehlizah
Awesome, but that looks hella expensive!
Expensive way to do it, but they are nice trees.
Yeah the quicker way is to just pull them out by hand after work.
Can you do this inJuly?
Wait they kept it on the same property? What does it cost to move mature trees from your old home to your new home?
Yes, same property. Just moved some feet away.
Birch, please. Keep your bark on!
😆👍🏽
was it really worth all that mess and cost to move a tree of that size? I figured maybe a much older tree would be worth it. Oh well.
That pine is at least 10 years old, probably more. You can cut it down and plant a new one but that doesn't bring those 10 years back. You can't purchase the time.
The older a tree that more likely it would die you are basically cutting half of the tree when transplanting the roots is as wide as the crown of a tree.
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how much psi the machine
who clean the soil from the roots
370000 psi
mexicans
How much money did this cost?! Wow.
Christ, that birch was some job!.
I have two newer machines but they almost work the same
Hey rawguh, how do I get staaaahhhhted??
Looks like you moved the pine tree with quite a bit of soil on the root ball, and didn't remove much with the compressed air tool(??). Not sure why you used the phrase, "Bare root transplant". I figured the main purpose was to minimize the weight of the tree (as well as allow fertilizer/new soil to be closer to the root ball), so a bit confused why the root ball wasn't actually "bare". Thanks for the video.
The umbrella pine was balled and burlaped (aka b&b), the birch was bare root. They showed different techniques.
They are also different types of trees as far as dynamic leaf/needle mass is concerned. One is evergreen, one is deciduous (naturally losing leaves during fall and winter months). It looks like rootballs and the major roots on the Pine were kept intact, and even though a bit of soil was lost on the air spaded tree, no trunk damage happened to it or the Pine. And one presumes follow up watering and drainage were good, and the trees were able to re-establish. (Follow up video would be nice)
Wow that looks like a lot of work. Personally I would have just cut down.
If you have several thousand dollars kicking around to throw at this then it's not hard work at all!
He actually told her: get the heck away from the tree so I can finish..
Sarcastically she said okay Roger! 😂😂🤔
what time in the video i cant find it
Hey Matthew, 3:00 she asked if they were making good time ! That's when he replied
This is a ton of work and money for these trees. However I think it’s important to note transplanting trees of this size is difficult and there is a good chance the tree doesn’t survive. It may live a year or two but will not make it much longer.
Nah, if you dig them at the right time of year, and know how much root to take you’ll do just fine. But you’re right, it is difficult until you know what you’re doing. My companies been transplanting mature trees for over 20 years and have had only a handful of large trees that didn’t survive, and this was almost entirely due to over/under watering. That said the umbrella pine was worth the expense, that’s an expensive plant at 5” caliper. Airspading a multi-stem heritage river birch is not worth the effort IMO.
Im the homeowner and the trees are all alive and thriving. We haven't had any problems at all. They did an amazing job!
@@brooksday8407 awesome glad to hear it! Out of curiosity did you have to pay for this or are the costs covered by the show?
@@brooksday8407 hi! I am also curious if you know the cost for a project like this. I realize it will depend on several factors like tree size and the region of the country; ballpark…$10k? $20k? 50k?
@@amilbyleckie7936very interesting. Now I'm curious, what time of year is best to transplant a 10 year old pine tree, 9 inch caliper? Is anytime ok as long as excavated
root ball is large ie. maintain the 1:10 ratio, and of course proper watering? In other words good chance of success even in summer if you do everything else properly?
Yeah… I’m just gonna plant a new tree
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And the cost of this?
Stop being poor.
"Okay"
@@wermzer1312 OMG! Thanks for that push, I just stopped and all of a sudden I am filthy rich now.
3:58 his voice change lol
They have a vid on here where they moved a 100 year old or more Live Oak, incredible feat. Check it out
Not a video. But only pics
Soooo..... An 8 man crew and multiple pieces of heavy equipment equallying no doubt thousands of dollars to transplant 2 trees? ...
... to the other side of the yard
OCD is one helluva drug
The real question: what strain are these home owners smoking? 🙋♂️
Oh great another how to that includes expensive equipment I don’t have
Wow.... Remind me *'Never to move a Tree' ~ !*
To much work for me. Looks good where it was
They left out the part where the Mexicans did all the work digging the holes.
To do a big job like this.. hire a landscape professional. I almost killed my self helping a neighbor move a crape myrtle tree & leyland cypress.
Literally no after shots, lol, seriously?
It was going great until you can hear both of those guys accents. Out of hear at 1:38…
That is way too much work for the average person to do in order to move a tree you are better off just cutting your losses and cutting it down you can also buy trees that are further developed if that is your concern when you plant a new one
What a waste of money
Money well spent, NOT!