Last week I was lucky enough to see the loading, unloading, and half the planting of an 18″ caliper European beech tree. The tree had been air-tool excavated, and was being moved over state highways to its new home at the residence of a former client of mine. Here’s what the tree and its immense [...]
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Air-tool transplant of a beech tree
Posted in Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Roots, Trees, tagged Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, planting trees bare root, tree planting, Trees on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, planting trees bare root, root flare, tree issues, tree planting, Trees, trunk flare 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
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 Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, MAA, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Perkins School for the Blind, Plant management, planting trees bare root, root excavation, tree issues, tree planting, Trees, trunk flare 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 [...]
Air tool transplant challenge — excavate and move
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Mike Furgal, Plant management, tree planting, Trees 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 [...]
Air spade transplanting
Posted in Air knife, Air spade, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Matt Foti, Mike Furgal, planting trees bare root, remedial root work, tree issues, tree planting, Trees 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 [...]
Root washing in Sudbury
Posted in Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Plant management, Root-washing, Trees, tagged Arboriculture, B&B plants, Bare-root transplanting, Carl Cathcart, planting trees bare root, remedial root work, tree issues, Trees on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the fall of 2008 Carl Cathcart persuaded Cavicchio’s Greenhouses to wash the roots on a stressed B&B Quercus rubra (Red Oak), and to plant it in a spot where it might be able to settle in. Carl sent me photos of the root-washing process, which I posted on Taking Place last summer. He and [...]
Note on older posts
Posted in Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Root-washing, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, circling roots, container plants, Plant management, planting trees bare root, remedial root work, root excavation, tree issues, tree planting on September 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As you may know, this blog started as a series of posts on our other blog, Taking Place. I branched it off that blog to avoid unbalancing the whole endeavor, and began posting on woody plant issues here. I am currently working on copying older posts from Taking Place over to this blog as well [...]
A note of thanks
Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, backfill, Bare-root transplanting, Carl Cathcart, container plants, MAA, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Matt Foti, Mike Furgal, remedial root work, root excavation, tree issues 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 [...]
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 Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, backfill, Bare-root transplanting, MAA, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Massachusetts Horticulture Society, Mike Furgal, tree issues, trunk flare 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 [...]
MAA Elm Bank workshop5 — root forensics
Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Arboriculture, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, tagged Air knife, Air spade, air spade transplanting, Air tool, Air tool transplanting, air tool use, Bare-root transplanting, decompaction, MAA, Massachusetts Arborists Association, remedial root work, root excavation, root flare, secondary roots 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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