Please lend your experience transplanting trees with a tree spade. I have several acres of various sized Eastern Red Cedars I'd like to transplant to create shelterbelts on the farm - prefer to utilize the free resource instead of knocking them all down and burning them. I've researched a bit online indicating cedars over 6' often experience transplant shock and die or just don't perform very well following transplant as too much root ball has been disturbed. Have a local guy with tree spade only $100/hour and I think we could easily move 3-4 per hour - but will benefit from your collective feedback.

Thank you in advance!

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