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Best thing would be to get one of these companies to quote for you, you could suply the aftercare and make some cash for doing very little.

 

Very little - until there's a drought! Aftercare is the crucial part of establishing moved trees.

 

A transplanted tree can go from looking healthy to being dead in a matter of days.

 

Lifting and planting them is quick and easy job by comparrison.

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That's what worried me when it was first suggested. I'd never do anything (well business wise for a client) that I wasn't happy in my competence to carry out. Seems that there are quite a few people that specialise in doing it though so it looks like it could be a goer - I'm learning all the time!

 

Thanks again for all the advice, much appreciated.

 

Rob

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I wasn't trying to put you off - the maintenance is fairly straight forward, you just need to allow enough resources to it -i.e. make sure you're paid enough! Keeping them watered enough is usually the main problem, particularly if they're planted in an exposed location - this is probably best avoided.

 

You need to keep an eye on them though - they do give a little bit of warning through the foliage, but if you miss it they can deterioate really quickly and once they've had a set back, it can take a while to get going again.

 

They may need further looking after beyond the first year too.

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I was refering to doing little for the actual movement of the trees. We transplanted 18 trees all over 45cm girth earlier this year. They were all planted with an irrigation coil to get water to the roots efficiently and some water retaining polymers. We have been lucky with it being so wet, but i did water them every 2 weeks during april and may, this is the crucial time when leaves are developing.

As stated in the above post aftercare is crucial to moving established trees. And the job should include this in your proposal.

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For trees like that, I'd really be giving thought to packaging more of a root plate, than using a tree spade.

 

The benefits will likely show up afterwards when establishment costs or survival really make a difference.

 

http://www.gianttreemoving.com/Portfolio.htm

 

It's not easy work, but it would be fun in it's own way.

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I wasn't trying to put you off - the maintenance is fairly straight forward, you just need to allow enough resources to it -i.e. make sure you're paid enough! Keeping them watered enough is usually the main problem, particularly if they're planted in an exposed location - this is probably best avoided.

 

You need to keep an eye on them though - they do give a little bit of warning through the foliage, but if you miss it they can deterioate really quickly and once they've had a set back, it can take a while to get going again.

 

They may need further looking after beyond the first year too.

 

Came across a very useful pice of kit...trying them out for myself now, but know of people using them for 2 years; http://www.treegator.com.

Bags are attached around trunk, possible to connect several depending on size of tree. Bags are filled with water (75 liters/bag -140 pints or something?!?) and then water is slowly released over a period of 5-9 hours.

It really gives the tree a chance to use the water and keeps trunk cooler (less waterloss) and the water will have time to warm up from sun... Any tosser can fill them up AND you are certain how much water the tree has been given.

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