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We have had some pretty good success with pine transplants, get a big spade, have at it. The times the spade guys liked for transplant was spring. Otto Dammgard and Sons out of the north shore of Lake Michigan in IL. would even move and guarantee an OAK tree if they hit the right time to do so. I'll never forget watching the boobular tube one evening and seeing these two Red Oaks with 30' diameter balls they dug, set on railroad tracks so they could move them 35' over for the road to be widened.
I don't claim at all to be a large caliper tree expert, but these spade guys can be magicians when you consdier everything written about trees and when to transplant. Lots of never can do being done. Morton Arboretum has been working on ways to move Oaks for years now, and last I read had a system perfected for the after care of a large (2' diameter) tree to be moved.
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Bill Schwab
In the year 1491, if the Naturescape Landscape Company did the site work in Pisa, Italy, they would not be calling it the "leaning" tower.
Encinitas, Ca. 92024
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