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Old 05-26-2006, 06:34 PM
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I have a related question. I'm bidding a job that will have some fairly large trees that will require a machine to set. I see a sling has been mentioned and I've seen pictures of them in use in magazines, but haven't seen them in person. The ones I've seen wrap around the root ball so it can be lowered in the hole. My question is how do you remove the sling once the tree is in the hole?

Also, would a sling that lifts by the trunk damage the tree?
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