100 Year Old Compton Oak Move Successful in League City
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2012
- The Ghirardi Compton Oak has been a piece of League City's history for over 100 years. The tree stands 56 feet tall, has a canopy that is over 100 feet wide, and is 135 inches around. It also weighs an incredible 518,000 pounds. A county road widening project put the future of the Ghirardi Oak in jeopardy. Council voted to use park dedication funds to hire Hess Landscaping Construction to move the majestic oak. A project that took them just under a month to complete. Watch the incredible process from start to finish in this video.
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On March 22, 2014 the City of League City held an opening ceremony for the new Ghirardi WaterSmart Park. The Ghirardi WaterSmart Park is a three acre passive park which is dedicated to teaching citizens ways to conserve their water use at home. It consists of community garden areas, native planting displays, a rain garden, a theater area as an outdoor classroom as well, a small nature play area, park and maintenance buildings, picnic area, decomposed granite trails, wooden boardwalks and footbridges interpretive signage, green roof kiosk and water cistern. The park was built around the previously relocated and internationally famous Ghirardi Oak. See photos from the grand opening here: media/set/?s...
96%+ of the root structure lies within the first 36" of soil, they dug down 7' and there were only a very few fibrous roots that far down. I crawled under the tree and saw this for myself. There are two love oaks that at over 1100 years old, Angel Oak in Georgia and The Big Tree in Rockport TX. This tree is barely 10% into its potential lifespan.
As a landscaper I'm impressed and inspired. This could be a new line of work that we could tap into.
Have u tried getting any jobs doing this?
@@Q_IXIX lol it be smarter to set up in house moving. large tree moving isnt common enough to keep a company going.
And it’s a shame it isn’t. Big cities could care less. Trees make everything more appealing
You will shoot your eye out kid.
Great to see a tree of such value to the community was saved. A 100yr old tree would be impossible to replace. Every family of the men who worked hard on this task was fed, mortgage was paid and money went back into the community. Moving big trees in an industry across the country and world--these people know better than to cut down every last tree.... and what an amazing effort!
Whoever 'Hess Landscaping Construction' is, they are some talented individuals to plan and execute this out. Bravo to them. I hope they make this knowledge available to others who may be faced with the same dilemma. As someone who's long advocated that aged Live Oaks be a protected species of flora (who once watched a 150-200 year old tree die for the sake of one extra 150 X 150 lot in a subdivision), this puts an end to the argument that there is nothing to be done when progress comes calling.
It's really heartening to see humans taking so much effort to move a tree :)
Great work!, this is a very touching video for all of us who loves Mother Nature and Heavy Equipment.
What a beautiful and touching video. What an effort. Congratulations go to all those who participated in relocating this little giant. May it live a thousands years to be remembered as the tree that walked on earth. Well done, people.
lol yah it is.
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Doh! You people are so stupid. That tree could be as important as a statue of Jesus. So stupid.
Where did that imbecile +blue steel go? We have so many negative devils these days.
I never thought I’d cry watching a tree move but here I am!
tears in my eyes. bless your dear tree.
Wow, that is really incredible.
You need to make a video on how to build that box on WWMM! You have a great channel, sir.
Outstanding job by American workers with American equipment!! What a beautiful tree, hopefully it will a long and healthy life in it's new home.
The shot of two cats crawling ahead pulling the old tree makes me very happy. This whole vid does.
It's amazing the lengths humans go through to preserve precious objects.
If more people treated plants like their pets and like their fellow people, this world would be such a better place. This is so wholesome and inspiring.
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Beautiful video! I show it every year to my students in arboricultureclass (in Finland). It's true, that the most important parts of the roots aren't so deep... so the main task is to dig professionally and then maintain the tree afterwards propely. And so it seems to have happened - best wishes for the old brave oak =) !
IM gonna cry, this was so beautiful
Wonderful to see such care and respect for this wonderful, old oak. Too bad there are some folks that arent able to see the value of this tree, not just monetary value or what it cost to move etc. It obviously was of great value to the people living with it in the area - its presence and history - thats the real value.
To those of you offering encouragement and support, thank you for the kind words. To the others, meh... It's done and well worth the effort. The tree is doing remarkably well. I visited the other day and it has new growth on every branch from the canopy to the understory. Construction on the park continues and should be finished soon. There will be a dedication ceremony which I am sue the city will post a follow up video for.
my salute to the engineer.
Nice To See People Actually Care Enough To Spend The Time & Money !!!
Most would just cut it down while other's would talk about how Nice that tree was before they cut it down..
Maybe This Video Will Inspire Others To Do The Same!!
Thanks 4 Sharing !!
Miracles are existing; some are made by the humans with a big heart... Great job! Long live the Oak Tree!
I am really glad to see this video and see that people in Compton Park care so much about this tree. We are having a similar problem in the Historic Manhiem Park Community in Kansas City Missouri. Some of the people are for protecting the trees and then another group is for cutting 80+ yr old trees to put in side walks so old ladies can walk through a neighborhood with no trees!
It’s very nice to see nice all the beautiful trees finding new homes.
wonderful transplant old tree great work 💚👍
i wish every time a tree had to be cut this size, a community would always vote for this option
thank you for sharing
Would be no reason. I would imagine this costing over $100,000.00. Your community would go broke before the first road was put in.
You have shown that tree proper respect, great work.
The tree is magnificent and beautiful. Great work guys. I hope the tree is doing well and continue to grow many many hundred years.
History, passion, teamwork and a desire to save something for future generations. This is the best of America! Pride and tears every time I watch this!!
That is so sweet for saving that Beautiful Tree!!! :)
I'm with a lot of the comments - watching this video I'm in tears (and I haven't finished my one cup of coffee yet!).We grow live oak trees in our nursery here in Florida from 8 to 20 years old. We know there is one thing that can never be replaced.. and that's time. It would take 100 years for another tree to grow that beautiful and Live Oak trees have been dated in the south upwards of 1000 years. While we're growers not (necessarily) huggers. Saving any tree for future generations, this one with what it means to the community and it's story. I commend the city and the effort to save that beautiful beautiful piece of history. All things living are His.
thankyou for sharing this great video! thankyou for saving this beautiful tree
That my friend is what made America so great !!
This video makes me reminisce how amazing and wonderful our life is.
Amazing what can be achieved when people work together for the common good. Very inspiring thank you for sharing!
Gorgeous tree, what an inspirational video!
I get goosebumps every time I watch this video. Heroes of the trees all.
Wow. Simply amazing. Gives me hope for the future.
Thank you for caring enough to save this worthy giant! Too many times we see trees dozed down in the name of progress.
Only in AMERICA! What a beautiful story and herculean effort to preserve our heritage!
Wow. What workhorses all that equipment was, to skid such a heavy load. Those straining trackhoes, charging ahead with determination. And whatever that orange cable is made of, strong stuff. I have so much respect for everyone and everything that accomplished this great project. Think I'll persevere in my little projects a bit harder.
Awesome action for keep that tree alive. Amazing Team Work
this was really cool, im a tree climber myself, so i definetly see the apperication these people had, great video!
Very Useful this machine for the planters.
i watched all of this ,it made me so happy ,,to see all that hard work ,to get this beautifull tree moved ,.love this ,,rollande and yes with tears ,,
of joy ,,
Awesome video so Greatful they saved this beautiful piece of mother nature
Didn't expect the tears. Well done.
Very impressive! Great job and forethought!
Amazing initiative.. Worth spreading and Worth Replicating..
Wow! That was a job and a half!
There is hope for humanity…
God bless you guys. That was awesome.
Beautiful tree , and amazing job .
Que grandiosos son, ustedes si saben lo que es un árbol.
Me alegra tanto que existan personas tan conscientes como ustedes!!
"I got this" - the one guy with the hose
Simply amazing!
I bet the workers were particularly proud of that job.
That is the coolest thing I have seen... Love it
Bravissimi...dico sul serio Complimenti!
Pretty cool, I have seen tree transplanted with this thing on the back of a big backhoe with 4 spaid looking things go around the tree and push into the ground and picks it up. But never this. Pretty cool. Keep up the good work.
This was awesome! Pretty impressive teamwork by all....humans and equipment!
Really great work.
Great work.I love it.
Made me so happy!
It is amaising
Thanks for shering.
Excellent 👍 job 🙏 save the environment 🙏😘❤️🙏🙏
Beautiful!!
I like how the two crawler excavators pulling at the front were literally crawling with their hydraulic arms
Wonderful. Bravo! Sharing this post in the hopes that respect for two beauties is shared in my Town....
Wonderful shifting in New way
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I love what you done. Again at the end of it journey movement. I love to seen the many standing therehat had part in this that day seeing them pulling a big rope to help pull that tree in place. I love to seen it my self. Thanks for that 📫 post
This is by far the absolute most amazing tree moving I have ever watched....
For me very unusual is the season they did this in....the best time would be between mid september and late october (depending on local climate)-but here they did it while the tree was in full growth season .Maybe there was a time table to be considered...
Anyway a wonderful decision....you people have respect for nature-great video.
Thank you for posting this.
Root season is not the same as leaf upper. IT is most possible for itself to heal and adapt during the vigorous envelope of March to May. It can get some rooting repaired before it goes into the dormant winter where it is not able to protect itself as welli & not good for a tree to heal.
Great video? Thank you for sharing it.
Great work
HATS OFF! very impressive!
I can’t believe what man and machine accomplished,,,,,good for you all,,,be proud.
AMAZING!
Awesome effort!
amazing,I wish, We Indians could also follow this technique
Massive work!
WOW!! HATS OFF GUYS..
that is the coolest thing I've ever seen! they should have left in the box and displayed it as the worlds biggest bonsai. every city needs the worlds biggest something.
thank you
Parabéns! Lindo trabalho de equipe.
magnificent...nothing short of amazing
That has made me Cry
Fantastic work!!!
We must protect our Trees
+zavatone :)))))))))
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Such a cool site to see! Also I am glad this amazing tree will be part of League City and we could make this move rather than cutting down such a majestic tree.
Great job
Freakin love this!!! There is a MONSTER OAK here in s.a that inknow will probably be chopped down to expand the road soon
Incredible!!!
Fabulous and congratulations! xoxoxo Love love love
Unbelievable effort!
What alot of work put in to accomplish this move! Im a horticulturist myself and might not totally agree with the move but it must have been totally neseserey to move a protected species from its original location!
Building contacter who bought the land for housing etc might have applied for permission to pull it down to the local council n they've probably only given permission to have it move to a new location they won't be allowed to kill the tree! ESPECIALLY in the UK!
By law any person is not allowed to dig up any tree on public land but we sometimes have to and want to or even need to!
Always ask permission! The best place to look for digs is on private land whare you can talk to the land owner yourself and arrange a dig or shrub removal from him!
I apply alot to councils etc but it's always only the private land holders that call or respond to your requests,
Very impressive move!
Nice Cat machines on the job.
I never said extreme measures weren't taken. The video shows the extreme measures taken. But how many memories are made on a road? Now how many memories are made by a tree? How long does the road last? Now how long does the tree last?
Real value is not measured by money.
And you do fit the definition of naysayer in this context.
Love the way those Cat operators made those things crawl with the bucket. Their team work made it look like one big machine.
thats one of the coolest things ive ever seen
NICE WORK
BEautiful Job
Unbelieveably nice.
I know it's only a tree, but that brought a lump to my throat !
God bless you all that saved the tree,,,what a change from dropping bombs.
I know, right? It would have sucked if they dropped a bomb on that awesome tree.
beautiful.
It's nice to see government doing what's right for a change. This makes me happy to call League City home.
nice! Was looking up reference for 3D models of Oak trees :)