The Sights and Sounds of a Tree Spade

[@rjdalchow]

Makes it so easy. When I was 12, I helped my grandpa move a 4 ft. blue spruce from our lake cottage to our church yard. We dug it up by hand, took all day. Happy to say that today, 45 years later, it is doing fine and a beautiful feature on the church lawn.

[@andycoe6820]

Ah the piece of equipment that I have been wanting to see!!! Love all of your videos!

[@lorenzopappatico]

Hello Zack, just wanted to say that I'm a new subscriber, and despite I have nothing to do with agriculture in my life, I love your channel and I do enjoy your videos a lot, because the way you explain things allows even a noob like me to understand, plus your attitude makes the whole even better and more pleasing to watch. So I just wanted to say keep it up and thank you for your beautiful videos. Greetings from Italy 😊

[@MillennialFarmer]

Lorenzo Pappatico thanks for watching!!

[@paulc8581]

Always loved watching a tree digger do it job . Just a big shovel

[@nashguy207]

Those large tree spade trucks are pretty cool. I own a landscaping company and when we move or install Large trees I work with a guy that has a large tree farm here and he has 2 spade trucks They are amazing at what they can do years ago first time I saw him work with the spade i was in aw. Thanks for sharing as always Zach I'M sure a lot of viewers have never seen one. Hope all is going and growing well. Have a great day. God Bless!!!

[@AASparkChaser]

A year ago last spring I hired a guy from Bagley to move 11 trees at my farm. His tree mover was so big that it was mounted on a tandem International diesel truck. With that machine he was able to move balsam firs as tall as 12-15 feet and an elm that was 20 feet tall; all without any pruning of the roots. It was amazing!

[@ratdog3055]

You are a man of many talents. Saw the tree mover in your other videos and wondered; "Why woulda farmer have that"? Now we know!

[@workhardlivefree3818]

Lovin the tree spade... With the amount of trees I planted around here... that would be a handy piece to move some around

[@nintendoryan2245]

Nice! I saw that in one of your videos and I thought if you were gonna show it off. I hope you had fun with it Zach!

[@PlanetMojo]

More interesting than you think. I actually would have liked to see more.

[@Northern_Farmer]

Now that's a tree speed...mines only a 36inch...would love to have that bad boy!!

[@meanjoegreen4925]

" come on down it's yours if the price is right "

[@MillennialFarmer]

It's been handy to have around!

[@ivyandroses4373]

I make 300k in profits every year in San diego county with only 1 employee. A 36" is a perfect size for Dev projects and transfer planting. The secret to success is to have the only spade machine around in a 50 mile radius 😆 Thats a huge machine for production but may be too large for specialized planting. Great Channel !!!!!

[@SmokeyBear2012]

Whitey Black c

[@tlclandscaping8455]

Would like to have seen more, very cool

[@LoneWolf-yp2mo]

Awesome man !! Always wanted to watch one of these in action !! THANKS !!

[@BRPFan]

Very nice work! Seen that before but enjoyed watching it again!

[@trevorjohnson7709]

Keep up the vids wheat harvest is here in munden Kansas but we just got 3.5 inches and more is supposedly coming

[@keenankelley187]

Camo for Life Just the opposite here north of Wichita dry and crops are burning up

[@dirtthunder1638]

Man! If I had that for a day or two some one would come home from vacation to a yard full of trees! LOL

[@mattg1987]

Very cool to see how that works. Great video.

[@stanleyjones4180]

great video zach thanks loved it

[@big_d0836]

That's a very cool piece of machinery

[@joshhandy8895]

That's pretty cool Rig there Zach

[@peanut6726]

Hey, Zach. I used to run one of those on a Christmas tree farm in upstate New York and I always felt the process would have been much quicker if I had access to a box of those" portable holes" that Wily Coyote used to use to try and catch Road Runner. You know, the ones from Acme... another great vid, Bud.

[@teo1692]

Really cool machine

[@TwoFarmBoys]

That seems like that'd be fun to run! It's amazing the technology we've invented! Great video!

[@ChrisBeller1]

Awesome! Those are manufactured about thirty miles from my house in Arkansas!

[@MillennialFarmer]

Chris Beller I'd like to have a newer one some day

[@SmallMartingale]

That thing's really cool, thanks for sharing that !

[@mattyc195]

That was cool AF! Thanks for sharing

[@grantgill9979]

Love your vids

[@garencarter746]

Love the video today

[@Jarl_Thidrandi]

I could use one of those here in washington to dig fence posts. Weve got boulders that grow in the ground all along this glacial deposit bed.

[@reynoldscs]

Rochester to Orting WA is nasty along that western Rainier glacial till.

[@curtweatherbee2523]

Farmer I had willow oaks dug with that same machine 😁 They also use a Deere skid loader👍🏻for the smaller trees 😊 pretty interesting🐝 take care now😆

[@waterskiingfool]

That's a pretty cool machine

[@RuffleCoptah]

Wow that's crazy, thanks for showing us how it works.

[@jamesdayton9530]

Good Job. I have never seen that done before.

[@HiBye-xw5qm]

Thanks for showing us this u always wondered how this worked

[@mikebonge7206]

I wonder why you had such nice trees around your home. Really looks good

[@Budd56]

Thank you that was interesting. I know how they work, but never seen one work. 👍👍👍👍

[@SmallMartingale]

This was really cool!

[@alltree78]

Great video

[@johnloken1445]

Interesting video. Thanks

[@joelmollenkopf3767]

Excellent

[@brandonwaldron2542]

Loved it thanks for the vid I want to be a farmer when I'm older

[@johnnyjoejimbob]

Thanks Johnny Appleseed!

[@HiBye-xw5qm]

Do you think you could do a video where you show us all of your equipment like the tractors etc

[@jacobcourtney6029]

Pretty cool I've never seen one of those before

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Thanks

[@paulcoulter7181]

Cool tool.

[@jtea84]

Might want to use those out riggers for stabilization purposes

[@kevinwoodcock7578]

On a total side note.... Was down in Florida visiting my son and we ended up going to Baker to a little podunk dirt track...Not even sure of the name of it... Baker speedway?..lol Ever done any racin down there?

[@soughrex2]

Very interesting

[@BornRandy62]

neighbor has a vermeer tree spade trailer and one that fits the front of the skid steer loader. He is a general contractor. when an addition is planned to an area where a good tree is located he moves them. or transplants to other places. I seem to get the apple trees. The arborvitaes survived well . the apple trees are fickle. watered the first growing season. and half the second . they dont seem to last more than 2 full seasons. they just dont green up the second spring. Next tree.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Randy J hmm, that's odd. I wonder if they're too large for his spade?

[@BornRandy62]

MN Millennial Farmer apple trees and this yard. I killed about 15 trees before I gave up. The last set I think were killed when the weather warmed during winter and then frozed solid multiple times .

[@blaneheinrich5743]

Excellent video I often wondered do they ever not go in the ground and you're selling all your toys race car now the truck

[@MillennialFarmer]

Blane Heinrich I need to make time for everything else! And I'm still racing, I'm just not a car owner anymore!

[@chadharmon5716]

Yea those things are neat I've seen giant ones relocate massive oak trees 🌲 before

[@noelhohberger1188]

I was wondering if you would ever show that

[@thedonleroy]

I've seen tree spades before but never one at work. Very interesting. How big of a tree can you handle with it? Thanks for the video.

[@MillennialFarmer]

thedonleroy it depends a lot on the species. For oaks, I wouldn't go any bigger. The large spruces behind me are about as large as I have ever moved.

[@brianhubbard7606]

Work smarter not harder!

[@WorldsOkayestFarmer]

Thats a crazy apparatus

[@pointbreak9850]

Are you getting a lot of rain up there.

[@keatonsmith5669]

I wish we could do this to Washington DC

[@landonfritz2563]

Have u ever been to pipestone Minnesota?

[@fredf3391]

Sparkey Oranges A friend farm out that way in the dirty 70s Indians made pipe stones to smoke marijuana peyote ,oh tobaccy to 👍

[@MillennialFarmer]

Yea but not for a long time

[@landonfritz2563]

MN Millennial Farmer cool!! Its a nice town.

[@luissonoma6255]

How would you know if the truck could handle the weight of the tree and what's the typical price range for that type of service. I have an avocado tree I'm trying to move. I'm thinking doing it with a fork lift or bob cat. It's about 22 ft tall and has about a ten inch width. I'm only trying to move it 16 feet from it's current location.

[@shawnfox8002]

Pretty simple Intersting process

[@jamesbilof4201]

Does that not kill a lot of the fine feeder roots?

[@breadman-oc2lx]

One thing definitely for sure is farmers have bad a** tools/toys. Thanks for the demo. Go win some races. Need to see the billboard checks

[@MillennialFarmer]

breadman 2017 I'll do what I can!!

[@mattnapier3695]

Congrats on quitting your side job. Full time farmer I can't wait.

[@smartass6071]

You should have used your out riggers to keep the truck from rocking side to side, thats what there their for.

[@chuckstevenson2929]

Good video. How big is the water tank?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Chuck Stevenson I think it's 300 gallons

[@jimpeters7931]

Are you done spraying your crops? Want to see your self propelled sprayer work. How about nitrogen incorporation? Do you do that this time of year?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Jim Peters we still have a lot of soybeans to spray, I'm hoping to make a video about that!

[@MillennialFarmer]

And no, we don't side dress any N

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Get any rain last weekend?

[@jlsmith6310]

Good video. Something little different .

[@ethanjames2240]

Yessir bud

[@regularfarming3037]

There is a lot of nursery goes on where I live. Not me I’d rather row crop and have my cattle. But anyway me and some of my friends got together one night and decided we would roll some yards well here we are sneaking around going through a field over and under fences and my friend had a wreck months before and his knee was just in bad shape had a brace on made him walk funny lol and he steps off in a deep ball hole and I thought we was going to have to carry him to the truck. BUT we did get the yard rolled successfully

[@jlsmith6310]

regularfarming I'm curious.... what is yard rolling? Never heard of it

[@regularfarming3037]

Yard rolling is when you go to someone’s house at night and take toilet paper and put it in the trees

[@regularfarming3037]

Yard rolling is when you go to someone’s house at night and take toilet paper and put it in the trees

[@regularfarming3037]

Yard rolling is when you go to someone’s house at night and take toilet paper and put it in the trees

[@jlsmith6310]

Ahhh ok. I've done that , just never heard it called that, around here anyway.

[@michaelbthon8060]

Im hoping to rent a machine to move trees. It's hard to tell the size of those in the video, but I want to move some walnuts and Eastern red cedars. Any idea what size DBH you can safely move? I have some that are 8" or so DBH

[@SoybeanFarmer3300]

you are going to miss having that toy around. done sell it!

[@nplawncarelawncare1274]

I want to be in agriculture just like you

[@davedunn2124]

Question. What is the reason for moving the trees? Why do you want oaks in that spot? I live where there are lots of woods so I am confused. We cut them down with brush hog to make more open ground. Does it help somehow?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Dave Dunn we want them as a wind and snow break on the north side of the farm yard. We planted a lot of them 7 years ago and needed to thin them out so we put them where the old groce got tore out due to a storm.

[@davedunn2124]

MN Millennial Farmer oh ok. We average 6” or less of snow at a time so that didn’t even occur to me. I should have thought of that. Thanks

[@tdog-dl6ms]

What type of truck is that on

[@AndersonFarms]

I figured u got that to go to captain Jeffery John's place

[@AndersonFarms]

Also.. Where do you get your music

[@MillennialFarmer]

Anderson Farms I found it on KZbin. It's a non-copyrighted piece I converted to .mp3

[@breezyridgeranch]

How big of a hole does that make?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Double U Farm about 3 feet deep and 3 feet across

[@calebmiller2583]

Great video Zach. Do you normally run water when you dig. I know my 100" won't dig without water.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Caleb Miller sometimes it's nice when the ground is hard but I never hooked it up this year...

[@bigsasquatch7027]

Couple questions... 1. Did you plant them oaks from acorns? 2. Bur oak trees have long tap roots, will they live with only 3' of root? 3. Weren't they hard to pull out/break off the root?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Big Sasquatch most of them I didn't break the root. A couple have clearly died but they needed to be thinned out regardless. We planted them about 7 years ago as 1 foot sticks.

[@warrenhamilton7582]

Hey... can I borrow that thing? :)

[@tonybullock9559]

4 inch rain did have it's advantages for that job how are the crops doing

[@MillennialFarmer]

Tony Bullock they're yellow in areas but overall ok

[@joe4398]

Still got?

[@bnsfbandit9807]

3:20 it would be great if I had some WD-40 all-purpose grease cleaner

[@fredf3391]

BNSF Bandit You are so right 😁

[@agger838]

how much weight can it handle?

[@MillennialFarmer]

jclark I think the root ball is around 2,500 pounds

[@timbrandt8423]

Coolest thing I ever saw come on over to ohio

[@nealfigary3288]

Side job ? I think it was just for fun and maybe make some beer money we all know Zach likes to play with machines

[@Kronkus36]

How big of a tree can you pull out with that unit ?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Kronkus36 depends on the species. I wouldn't go any bigger with oaks.

[@luciomagdaleno958]

👏🏽👍🏽

[@tf7274]

I'd do a few WD-40 commercials if it meant I didn't have to run a spade...

[@dustinharstad8251]

You should make your farm into an FS 17 map.

[@MillennialFarmer]

Dustin Harstad how much time would that take? I've considered it

[@dustinharstad8251]

MN Millennial Farmer I’m not sure, but you would need to talk to a map maker for fs 17

[@freak-jd6ps]

How does this not kill the tree? 🌲

[@indianarowcrop8313]

The more ya know.....

[@jackrossman3565]

This has nothing to do with the video but are you gonna race the usmts fall jamboree at deer creek speedway this fall

[@MillennialFarmer]

Jack Rossman not sure. We're usually getting ready for harvest at that time but it's possible

[@aggabus]

Funny. See you hear Been thinkn of MF. (Did see him in a que) not see in a while Long..(seen many vi

[@nickgibb4687]

damn work thoes levers

[@adrianklaver113]

So you and Call To Dig are on a first name basis? When you picked and hauled trees over a distance did you tarp them to prevent wind damage to limbs?

[@MillennialFarmer]

Adrian Klaver I never tarped them but I would strap the big ones down some. Most trees seemed to take a lot of wind.

[@andywilkinson3792]

How come you have decided to give that little side line job up. Are you just doing more on the farming side now. Cos I would off thort to keep that going u all ways going to make some money or is not any good now. Over here in UK most farmers have a side line just in case u have a really bad year. So just wondering y u are giving up with that. But wich ever all the best from Andy in UK

[@MillennialFarmer]

Andy wilkinson yeah, I'm busier with the farm now plus KZbin and 1 other early business venture that could be promising. It was just worth too much to leave it sitting around

[@andywilkinson3792]

I understand now if u got your fingers in another job and ya I can understand y you are selling that cos yes a lot off money sat there doing nothing is not making money and as you said in video you not uesd it for long time. We'll I will keep my fingers crossed for you and everything works out. I'm not farming now. But was on the farm done my back in. So that's y. I asked about you getting out off that nice little side line. We did big mobile toilets for weddings and stuff like that thay were done like bosh hotels but just on wheels. Like I said best of luck with all. And Your family. From Andy

[@chraleple9476]

I'm sure you have heard of Farming Simulator. Ever considered having a map made of your farm? Welkers Farm had theirs done. Not much American support for the sim, being German, and mostly Europeans creating "American" maps that are not even close to resembling American farming.

[@markh6342]

Don't forget to forward Captain Jeffrey John the new owner of the spade his phone #. Captain may need some trees moved....lol

[@MillennialFarmer]

Mark H lol!!