00:00Relocating a mature 40-foot tree used to take an entire crew days of manual digging.
00:06Watch how modern heavy hydraulics solves it in 30 seconds.
00:10This specialized truck is equipped with a mechanical tree spade.
00:13Four massive curved steel blades plunge deep into the soil around the root system,
00:19locking together to create a solid cone.
00:21With thousands of pounds of hydraulic lift,
00:24the machine scoops the entire living tree out of the ground,
00:27ready to be replanted without damaging a single root.
00:30Pure mechanical power.