Protect your trees during residential construction projects.
When construction or maintenance is impacting a tree's root zone, essential measures can be taken to protect your tree. These include exploratory excavation, root pruning, and protective measures for exposed roots.
Identifying roots through methods like AirSpade®, we ensure precise pruning to minimize stress to your tree. We also cover exposed roots with soil or mulch, and providing additional water to preserve tree health. Our team can even advise on optimal utility placement for the tree's benefit and offer ongoing maintenance support.
Root pruning doesn't just protect your trees, it protects your home too! That's because properly pruned roots guide growth away from new construction, promoting a harmonious coexistence.
Enhance tree health with AirSpade® Root Zone Extraction Service
This service involves the use of a pneumatic air gun to remove soil from root areas without damaging any tree tissue. Soil is blown free of the roots and/or base of a tree in order to gain access to the below-ground structure and correct common tree deficiencies. Unlike mechanical means of digging, injuries to the subject trees are illuminated. The benefits can include soil decompaction, root collar excavation and root pruning.
Common remediation uses of AirSpade® include the following practices:
Soil decompaction
By moving or ‘tilling’ areas of a trees’ root zone, hard-packed soils can be broken up and mixed with additional organic materials to provide healthier soils for tree growth.
Root collar excavation
Many trees can start out life with chocking roots encircling the trunk below grade. This common ailment gets progressively worse over time and can kill otherwise healthy trees. When addressed in time, girdling roots can be severed and stopped from choking the trunk. Careful removal of the soil in this critical area of the tree using the AirSpade® can address these issues without causing additional damage to the tree.
Root pruning
Similar to the above point, exposing roots with the AirSpade® can provide access to roots that have been previously damaged or are at risk from future site work. Not unlike tree branches, roots need to be pruned properly in order to limit dieback and disease entry. Once again, the ability to gain access to tree roots without injury pays dividends to ongoing tree health.
Transplanting and bare root digging
Certain circumstances occur where the need to move trees provides more applicable AirSpade® options. With proper consideration of season and tree species, removing the soil from a tree root system allows for easier transplanting and greater success. Similarly, partial root zone excavation allows for the correct pruning needed for the preparation of transplanting larger trees.