I suppose I already know the answer to this one, but are there any
landscaping companies out there that will pull up a mature tree and use it
for landscaping if they consider it attractive enough? My neighbour tells me
he's going to chop down a couple of variegated holly trees in his garden (
too close to the house ) and I thought that even with them being 25 feet
high, I've seen machines that can literally pull a tree out of the ground
for landscaping use, and some company might want a couple of variegated
hollies. Chances are slim to nothing, but I thought I'd ask.

Andy.

What about the footings of his house if he 'heaves' it out???????

We have just left the stump of a quite substantial tree in because of a
public footpath and Electric cables:-((

At my last house I had a HUGE holly tree about 6 feet away from the kitchen
:-(( I cut it down and got rid of it bit by bit. (The Children's Donkey ate
the leaves)

Mike
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"andrewpreece" wrote in message
...
I suppose I already know the answer to this one, but are there any
landscaping companies out there that will pull up a mature tree and use it
for landscaping if they consider it attractive enough? My neighbour tells
me
he's going to chop down a couple of variegated holly trees in his garden (
too close to the house ) and I thought that even with them being 25 feet
high, I've seen machines that can literally pull a tree out of the ground
for landscaping use, and some company might want a couple of variegated
hollies. Chances are slim to nothing, but I thought I'd ask.

Andy.

On 10/1/05 18:16, in article , "Janet
Baraclough" wrote:

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from "andrewpreece" contains these words:

I've seen machines that can literally pull a tree out of the ground
for landscaping use, and some company might want a couple of variegated
hollies.

Unlikely. Those large landscape trees have been specially prepared
for years, to enable them to survive being pulled out of the ground.
Often they are growing inside a buried root-limiter , or, their roots
have been regularly cut underground to form a small dense root mass.

There was a gardening programme about an Italian company growing such trees.
It was on a year or two ago and it was fascinating to see how they went
about their work. I'm not sure of the name of the company now but it might
have been Fratelli Filipi (which sounds much more glamorous than Phillips
Brothers!
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There are machines capable of removing mature trees, and have been used in
circumstances where ( for instance ) motorway or highway contractors
building roads through controversial areas, and planners have promised to
replant them close by.

I cannot see such machinery being used close to property though, and the
expense would out way the value of the trees, no matter how grand they are


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"andrewpreece" wrote in message
...
I suppose I already know the answer to this one, but are there any
landscaping companies out there that will pull up a mature tree and use it
for landscaping if they consider it attractive enough? My neighbour tells
me
he's going to chop down a couple of variegated holly trees in his garden (
too close to the house ) and I thought that even with them being 25 feet
high, I've seen machines that can literally pull a tree out of the ground
for landscaping use, and some company might want a couple of variegated
hollies. Chances are slim to nothing, but I thought I'd ask.

Andy.

"JeffC" wrote in message
...
There are machines capable of removing mature trees, and have been used in
circumstances where ( for instance ) motorway or highway contractors
building roads through controversial areas, and planners have promised to
replant them close by.

I cannot see such machinery being used close to property though, and the
expense would out way the value of the trees, no matter how grand they are


Yes,
I thought that would be the answer, shame, but on the plus side, that
means he'll give them to me for firewood!

Andy :-)

At my last house I had a HUGE holly tree about 6 feet away from the kitchen
:-(( I cut it down and got rid of it bit by bit. (The Children's Donkey ate
the leaves)


Donkeys can eat holly leaves?! Respect to donkeys!

At my last house I had a HUGE holly tree about 6 feet away from the
kitchen
:-(( I cut it down and got rid of it bit by bit. (The Children's Donkey
ate
the leaves)


Donkeys can eat holly leaves?! Respect to donkeys!


Quite amazed me too!! I was up the tree cutting branches off and flinging
them down into her paddock with the intention of moving them when I came
down, and she started eating them. Just left me with bare branches :-))

Mike

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:32:28 -0000, "andrewpreece"
wrote:


I thought that would be the answer, shame, but on the plus side, that
means he'll give them to me for firewood!

Variegated hollies - even large ones are not that precious and well
dried holly is wonderful firewood.

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