How to Transplant Mature Trees | This Old House

Birch, please. Keep your bark on!

Can you do this inJuly?

Very interesting.

Smh Must be nice to be a millionaire and burn money like nothing. What a waste of time. Burn the dam tree's down they drop needles anyways and rats love to to live in those kind of trees

How did they dig under the tree to get the burlap through?

Oh great another how to that includes expensive equipment I don’t have

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.

Wow.... Remind me 'Never to move a Tree' ~ !

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

They left out the part where the Mexicans did all the work digging the holes.

How do you avoid killing it when u have to cut the tap root

How much money did this cost?! Wow.

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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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.

Yeah… I’m just gonna plant a new tree

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!

The real question: what strain are these home owners smoking? 🙋‍♂️

Money well spent, NOT!

Christ, that birch was some job!.

Literally no after shots, lol, seriously?

I hope the idiot who planted the birch and pine so close to the oak is watching...send him the bill.

To much work for me. Looks good where it was

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.

Bill Burr would love this guy's accent. Staaaaaht!

They have a vid on here where they moved a 100 year old or more Live Oak, incredible feat. Check it out

Absolutely hard work! Amazing stuff.

Wow that looks like a lot of work. Personally I would have just cut down.

Soooo..... An 8 man crew and multiple pieces of heavy equipment equallying no doubt thousands of dollars to transplant 2 trees? ...

I have two newer machines but they almost work the same

homeowner: i want that big tree ova thare and that one over heayuh.
cost 4800$

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.

Wait they kept it on the same property? What does it cost to move mature trees from your old home to your new home?

Excellent :)

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.

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

Awesome, but that looks hella expensive!

And the cost of this?

Hey rawguh, how do I get staaaahhhhted??

Fucker is telling lies. The ribbon is for the direction facing the sun this is major step if missed tree won't survive

"This next part of the process is critical". So we make sure to really skim through it fast.

He actually told her: get the heck away from the tree so I can finish..
Sarcastically she said okay Roger! 😂😂🤔

Whaaaa?! no taaarrrhhhpp for the soil youre digging up?!

They make it seem easy

What a waste of money

how much psi the machine
who clean the soil from the roots

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.

Bet the neighbors were confused, "wasnt that tree over ther- and that one, what the heck"

very nice work.