PROJECT STORY
Situation, Work, and Result
Situation
This was not a typical residential tree planting. The tree was a roughly 20-foot maple with an 80-inch root ball, which put the work into equipment-class territory. A tree that size cannot be treated like a small nursery container. The access, handling, hole prep, and set all need to match the weight and scale of the root ball. The site helped because the soil was high quality and the dig was clean, but the project still required the kind of tree-moving background that most residential crews do not bring to a yard.
The Work
The maple was moved with a skid steer and planted using a tree spade attachment. That equipment mattered because it let the crew handle the 80-inch root ball with control instead of fighting the tree by hand. The clean dig and good soil conditions gave the install the right starting point. From there, the crew had to place the tree, keep the root ball stable, and finish the planting zone without turning the area into a rough construction scar. The visible mulch ring is only the final detail. The core work happened in the equipment handling and set.
Result
The finished install shows why large-tree planting is a different class of work. The maple brought immediate scale to the property, but the project only worked because the crew could move and plant a tree with an 80-inch root ball safely and cleanly. Orlando had run farm-scale tree crews for years before founding the company, and that background fits this kind of job. It is still a residential landscape result, but the install itself belonged closer to farm and estate tree work than a standard shovel-dug planting visit.
