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Air-tool transplant: Norway Spruce Part 2

Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

To continue yesterday’s post on the bare-root transplanting of a Norway spruce at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA: Project site:  The Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA Project manager:  Sonia Baerhuk Project crew:  Rolando Ortega, Mynor Tobar, Santo Masciari

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Air-tool transplant: Norway Spruce, Part 1

Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Massachusetts Arborists Assocation bare-root workshops — one in August 2008, and one in August 2009 — have been spreading word through the Commonwealth about the benefits of air-tool tree transplanting, and word is travelling throughout Massachusetts horticulture circles now. A couple of weeks ago I was chatting with Kristen DeSouza, one of the horticulturists [...]

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Air tool transplant challenge — excavate and move

Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Mike Furgal sent me photos of an 8″ caliper Weeping White Pine  that he moved a couple of weeks ago, remarking that this tree, though relatively small, was the most challenging tree he’s moved bare-root. The tree was situated in a small berm next to a house and a driveway, and shared the bed with a [...]

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Air spade transplanting

Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Posted on Taking Place on July 1, 2009: A few posts back I mentioned my February 2009 article in Lawn and Landscape Magazine on bare-root tree transplanting using an air spade. That article was preceded by my December 1, 2008 article in American Nurseryman, in which news of the technique debuted. Both articles describe the [...]

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A note of thanks

Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In the year since I’ve been writing about bare-root transplanting and air-tool use, I’ve had the great good fortune to be able to ask questions of the real experts, the arborists who are doing this work and promoting it throughout Massachusetts and the US.  Three in particular have been especially helpful: Mike Furgal, the original [...]

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MAA Elm Bank workshop6 — air tool tree transplanting

Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Air spade tree transplanting.  Warning:  Long post, tons of photos. Probably the biggest draw of the Elm Bank workshop on September 10, 2009, was Mike Furgal’s moving of a 6″ caliper elm hybrid.  Mike first developed the method of air-tool bare-root transplanting in 2004, and has been working on it since, moving ornamental specimens and [...]

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MAA Elm Bank workshop5 — root forensics

Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dave Leonard from Lexington, KY, manned the root forensics station at the September 10 MAA air-tool workshop at Elm Bank.  He used an Air Knife to excavate the root ball of a 4″ caliper red maple that was showing signs of decline. With soil blown away from the original root ball, it was clear that [...]

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MAA Elm Bank workshop

Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, tagged , , , , , , on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday the Massachusetts Arborists Association held a day-long workshop at Elm Bank, headquarters for the Massachusetts Horticulture Society in Wellesley, MA.  Three arborists — Dave Leonard from Kentucky, Rolf Briggs of Holliston, MA, and Matt Foti of Lexington, MA — spoke about particular  root issues; Mike Furgal, from Northborough, MA, discussed the use of air [...]

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Air tool seminar

Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a quick post to alert readers to the Massachusetts Arborists Association‘s Special Seminar and Demonstration on air tool use. A team of four arborists — Mike Furgal, Matt Foti, Rolf Briggs, and Dave Leonard — will be showing how compressed-air tools can be used in arboricultural work (root forensics, bare-root planting, bare-root transplanting, shrub [...]

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Air tool observations

Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Trees, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Matt Foti took these photos from last week’s big transplant project, and they illustrate some useful points. Project arborists: Matthew R. Foti Landscape and Tree Service, Concord, MA Furgal’s Tree and Landscape, Northborough, MA

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