Its not all about cutting em down!

[madmatt]

Nothing exciting but here's a few pics from a job we did Friday Evening, Mum works at one of the local Sixth form colleges. Sadly one of the lads there lost his battle with Cancer in February. He was a very brave lad who had so many friends, They asked Mum about planting a tree in his memory.

Obviously being kids money was tight, but being in school grounds it seemed pointless to plant a whip! Once they had bought a tree I offered to plant it for them and roped a mate in who owed a favour, we managed to save them the cost of the stakes and labour charges by doing it on a friday night! Hopefully it'll florish into a nice tree, oh its a native Oak by the way

 

 

 

[Steve Bullman]

good job

[Nick Waring]

Yeah, very nice. Good job madmatt

[Peter]

Nice work.

 

Were there just the 2 of you on the job? Looks like there are enough digging tools for a whole pub full of irish navvies!

[madmatt]

Lol, yep just the two of us but we just have different tastes in digging implements lol!

[skyhuck]

Nice work.

 

Were there just the 2 of you on the job? Looks like there are enough digging tools for a whole pub full of irish navvies!

 

Probably like ground force,whole team of worker to do the job,but only Matt and his mate in the pic's,LOL!!!!!!!:wave:

[madmatt]

Probably like ground force,whole team of worker to do the job,but only Matt and his mate in the pic's,LOL!!!!!!!:wave:

 

Lol! I don't think so! I wish there was, we did have a photographer on site though - well me dad with a camera!

[BrendonV]

Nice thought.

 

Looks deep though!

[madmatt]

The root ball was roughly 18" square it was a fair weight to!

[Marc]

Nice planting, do you stake high to gaurd against vandalism being in a school?

I prefer low staking as it allows the root ball to move more and stimulate root growth.

 

Here is a pic of a small selection of the tree stock where I work, in the picture are Laurels, Carpinus, and some large Acers.