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yup/ pics and cost/profit analysis after, see if we helped you make money or made you lose some! :) hope it all goes well LJ.

drum tie, drum lace, methinks the same idea. :) Welcome thillmaine!

around here the norm is to measure about a foot above grade for caliper. :)

it is Looker. I advised them 3 times that this is NOT the right tree for this location. They had us remove a hedge of 7 to 8' smaragd (thuja occ. 'smaragd')cedars (the right tree for this place) and replace with the pictured trees (thuja plicata excelsa). Their intention as new homeowners is...

considering I can buy a dug and burlapped 12-13' cedar here at a nursery for $150 or less... We just planted 24 of them, delivered by crane. partially pre dug trench to plant them in, 3 guys 6 hours plus crane costs (sorry for the run on sentence).

hmm. I think a tree spade around here goes about $150 / hour. to dig and move a tree like that across a property I would say about 1.5 man hours digging, 1 machine hour plus materials (burlap and twine etc).

LJ. if you can, tie the tree in, as in the green bits, start at the bottom and use half hitches like tieing a roast to get the branches under control and gussied up. Hand dig a decent rootball, burlap it as best as you can and figure some sort of a sling that you can lift out with the tractor...

I cut off or roll the burlap under the soil and cut all the twine most times.

agreed RJS, they dont hold together depending on the soil and root density. Another way I have seen used :shifty: is if there is a low, sturdy crotch on the tree is to wrap it with a number of burlap sheets as a cushion and rig a strap from the crotch to lift. for a sling consider fashioning a...

for larger rootballs I have dug a ditch around the tree then used the spade to undercut the rootball until it is basically sitting on a pedestal (pretty much what RJS said), then drum tie it with burlap and twine, fashion a sling of some sort to enable the crane to lift it up without causing...

I hate to be a stickler but what is a Cedar down your way? Are we all talking about the same tree? I have done bare root but nothing very large, root ball with big spade I have done as well, I would say it depends on soil type, in sandy soil I think the spade might work fine, in clay it glazes...