Truck Wheel Tree Mover

Truck wheel tree mover TRUCKS Modifications 15-5-8 "I've used it to move cedar trees up to 7 ft. tall," says Robert Clark, Toledo, Wash., who made a nifty tree mover out of an old 20-in. dia. truck wheel and six Ford car axles. The home-built tree mover is carried by a pair of pallet "forks" he made out of steel tubing to mount on his tractor 3-pt. "I cut the center out of the wheel, outside of the mounting bolt holes, and then cut the wheel in half, right through the center. Then I welded six 7-in. long pieces of 2-in. sq. tubing to the perimeter of the wheel - three on each side and all angling in toward the center of the wheel. Then I attached lengths of 3-in. sq. tubing to the sides of the wheel to slip over the pallet forks on the tractor." To lift a tree out of the ground along with a ball of dirt, Clark takes one of the wheel halves off the forks and backs the other half up against the trunk of the tree, then slips the other half of the wheel back onto the forks so the tree is surrounded. Then he lowers the wheel to the ground and uses a sledge to drive the six axle shafts through the six pieces of tubing around the edge of the wheel. The six shafts loosen the tree enough so that when he raises the 3-pt., the tree lifts easily up out of the ground with a ball of dirt, ready for transplanting. Clark notes that in some soils it may help to soften the dirt around the tree with water first. And in lighter soils it may be necessary to wrap root ball with burlap to hold soil on roots. To replant, he simply lowers the tree down into a hole and slips out the axle shafts. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Robert C. Clark, 338 St. Hwy 505, Toledo, Wash. 98591 (ph 206 864-2055).

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