Moving a 100 year old oak tree Video

[Graham Orm]

http://www.snotr.com/video/9982/Moving_100_year_old_Oak_Tree

 

[dm65]

Well done boys (the movers)

+1 all the "so you can save trees" related comments and I've only ever hugged a tree after crashing into it

 

[Nippychippy]

=D> Cool

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Interesting - but it's been on here before.

 

[bugbear]

I have a memory of a monster tree moving machine being used to move lots of big tree into a horrible made-by-Disney(*) gated village in America.

It looked like the world biggest post hole digger.

(googly)

This kind of thing:

http://www.holttreespades.com/prod01.htm

http://www.treeservicesmagazine.com/article-2221.aspx

BugBear

(*) not a metaphor

 

[gasman]

I like the horrified comment below the video about how building the box it sat in from wood is like moving someone in their dead brother