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Article: Making tree transplants easier, safer.(Landscape Construction)
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- The Educational Forum
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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When people move into a new home, they sometimes use terms like "uprooted" and "transplanted" to describe the difficulty of relocating to a new area. Perhaps the tree analogies should cease. Equipment specifically designed for transplanting trees is allowing nurseries, homeowners, landscapers and other professionals to efficiently move trees from one location to another.
Tree transplanting equipment is available in several styles, including truck, trailer- and loader-mounted units.
Truck- and trailer-mounted transplanters, loader mounts and pod trailers are hydraulically activated and dig a receiving hole where the tree is to be placed, then dig the tree ...