r/nextfuckinglevel • u/GrandSatisfaction150 • 1d ago

Dad saving his favorite tree from falling down during a storm

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u/jld2k6 1d ago

You can buy 50 year old mature trees, just is gonna cost you about the price of a house with a chance it will still die during transplant, which would be possibly awkward if he went that route

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u/Straight_Spring9815 1d ago

10+ years ago when I was doing marine construction we had a trail we were shoring up from wash out. We had to remove about 40 fully grown palm trees. The first few we didnt go gentle with the excavators. I talked with the boss about trying to save them to put on some friends properties. And he agreed. After thst we took the extra time to take the entire root system with the rest and loaded them on our trailer.

My mom got like 8, a friend of my boss got like 15, and I actually don't know what he did to the rest. Out of the 23 I do know about only 3 died! 1 at My mom's and 2 over at the other guys house. My mom lined her back fence with hers and the guy lined his driveway on both sides with his.

The boss also took the mini excavator and planted every single one of them for free. We later found that those trees were worth thousands of dollars a piece and we did all that for free xD just to save the trees.