CHAPTER XIII 

 TRANSPLANTING LARGE TREES 



WHERE immediate effect is required, the transplanting of 

 large trees and shrubs will be an operation of considerable 

 importance, and though it is fraught with both trouble and 

 expense, the results obtained have led to an increased 

 adoption of the system during recent years. 



There is hardly a limit to the size or weight of the tree 

 to be removed when the operator is provided with suitable 

 appliances, and success has crowned the effort of several 

 recent operations of this nature in our Royal and other 

 parks. Of late years several appliances for removing large 

 and weighty trees and shrubs have been placed on the 

 market ; amongst these one of the best is certainly that 

 made and patented by Messrs. Faulkners Ltd. Its prin- 

 cipal recommendations are simplicity of structure, the 

 ease with which it may be worked, and lightness, com- 

 bined with such strength that even the weightiest tree can 

 be removed. But not only is this tree-lifter valuable where 

 transplanting is being engaged in, for in removing large tree 

 roots, logs of timber, blocks of stone, and heavy materials 

 generally, it has been found most useful. 



The apparatus is made somewhat in the form of a four- 

 wheeled lorry, having a steel frame only. The frame at the 

 back is made movable to admit of the apparatus being 

 placed so that the tree to be moved stands in the centre of 

 the machine. Two stout planks with guide rails are laid 

 across the trench, and the machine is backed on to these. 

 The machine is constructed with four iron rollers, lying 

 along over the side frame and parallel with the frame. 



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