Moving large oak trees

After moving many trees at a site in Shurlock Row with our 1400 tree spade ,we were asked to move some larger trees which we felt would be better on our 2.1 m tree spade , the client then decided to test the water to see if we could go bigger !

After a site survey buy our GM Chris Mills and myself we decided the only way to move the oak tree would be to use the Newman frame ,the advantage of this is a rootball larger than any tree spade in europe can handle giving the tree a beneficial start in its new location.

4 days of rootball prep followed due to numerous services having to be re-routed and on day 5 we were ready to lift.With the help of a 100 ton crane we were able to lift the tree ,weighing in at 22.7 ton onto our low loader ready for transportation.

The tree was carefully driven to the planting site and unloaded into it's new position and secured using overhead wire ropes.The client was pleased with the transplant and the way our team made it look easy !