Colorado Tree Spade can move trees of all sizes |
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Written by Lyn Dean |
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 05:00 AM |
Pfeifer wants us to think again. Colorado Tree Spade has been moving trees for 35 years and has numerous success stories with customers ranging from homeowners with small properties to high-profile Front Range personalities with large properties to well-known commercial properties including the Pepsi Center, Denver Broncos Training Facility and The Broadmoor. “We still have clients we have worked with since the 1980s,” she says. Moving the big trees Bigger spades are rare, which means Colorado Tree Spade’s fleet can handle bigger tree jobs and can collaborate with other tree movers as subcontractors. Pfeifer sees her company as a partner—not a competitor—with other tree-moving companies, and also a partner with landscape companies. “We can help them do their work.” Currently, the company owns eight spades in various sizes and has the largest fleet and widest variety in the state, and one of the largest in North America, according to Pfeifer. She adds that the largest tree spade, which can carry trees 40 feet tall with a root ball weighing over 40,000 pounds, is used only to move trees on the same property because the loaded truck is not road legal. Get the word out about transplanting trees Many of the company’s transplanted trees are moved to a different location on a client’s property or to a different property of the client. Other clients donate unwanted trees to a charitable organization, such as a church property, local parks or schools. The company has a list of people who want big trees and looks for “homeless trees,” trees that people no longer want. Transplanting trees can be cost-effective Furthermore, when a tree is removed from a property, typically the recipient pays for the entire move. This means property owners can have their trees removed for free! Better yet, by ‘donating’ the tree to a 501(c)3 charity, the tree owner could receive a tax deduction for the value of the tree! “When landscape companies and arborists consider tree removal, I wish more took into account transplanting and saving trees as an alternative to cutting them down,” says Aaron Pfeifer, son of Susan Pfeifer and her successor in the business. This is an excerpt from a story in the September/October 2019 issue of Colorado Green. Read the full story online. Read more in this issue of Colorado Green NOW: |