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Massachusetts Arbor Day of Service

Posted in Massachusetts Arborists Association, Miscellaneous, Pruning, Trees, tagged , , on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Massachusetts Arborists Association has a new volunteer initiative starting in 2010.  They aim to build on the traditional Arbor Day celebration by instituting a statewide volunteer service day on that day, which falls on April 30, 2010. To get the ball rolling, the MAA is inviting anyone to identify potential tree care projects in [...]

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A note of thanks

Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Trees, arboriculture, 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, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, arboriculture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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, Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, arboriculture, 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 workshop4 — root problems

Posted in Bare-root transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Shrubs, Trees, arboriculture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

At the MAA Elm Bank workshop on September 10, 2009, Matt Foti demonstrated how to address root problems at the time of planting.  He had a fairly large collection of trunk-and-root masses to illustrate his points, and used them to show how girdling roots, secondary root systems, and J-rooted systems can develop as a result [...]

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MAA Elm Bank workshop3 — decompaction

Posted in Air tool, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, arboriculture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Tree Specialists manned the decompaction station at the MAA workshop on September 10, 2009.  Standing between two mature sugar maple trees, Rolf Briggs used a compaction meter (from Forestry Suppliers, Inc.) to show how thoroughly compacted the soil around these trees was (very). Compaction limits the movement of moisture and of gases (oxygen included) in [...]

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MAA Elm Bank workshop2 — trench work

Posted in Air tool, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, arboriculture, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Massachusetts Arborists Association workshop on September 10, 2009, took place on a sunny, cool day at the Mass. Hort. Society’s headquarters at Elm Bank in Wellesley, MA. This workshop focused on root issues, with demonstrations of what some of those issues are — conflicts with utility lines, the effects of poor growing and planting [...]

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MAA Elm Bank workshop

Posted in Air tool, Air tool transplanting, Massachusetts Arborists Association, Plant management, Trees, arboriculture, 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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