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Watch This Massive Machine Remove and Transplant an Entire Tree Without Killing It

The dino-sized Dutchman Tree Spade

By Rain Noe - February 7, 2017

in Sustainable Design

I had no idea that it was possible to transplant trees. Then again I don't have any experience working with nursery distribution centers, and a company called Dutchman Industries does, having been spun off from one in the early 1970s.

Dutchman specializes in the mechanization of the field operations required by tree nurseries, and apparently every once in a while there's a need to relocate living trees. Thus they invented the Dutchman Tree Spade. Here's what their dinosaur-sized 100" model can do. (We've cued the video up to the appropriate moment, but warning—turn down your speakers!)

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First off, that is freaking amazing. Secondly, to whomever edited this video: European club music? Is that what resonates with the arborist demographic? Also, are you the same guy who sets the volume level of NYC ambulances?

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Oli Sparrow

7 years ago

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I assume that it actually has to excavate the receiving hole first, before it can dig up and transplant the donor tree? I'd imagine it'd be quite difficult to hand or mechanically dig a hole the right shape and size with anything other than the truck.

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Michael DiTullo

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super cool!

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Adonia Brighid

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This is the power of design. Congratulations to Dutchman.

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Kivi Shapiro

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Typo: "whomever" should be "whoever".

Also? Pretty amazing machine!

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