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Pre-Excavation Checklist

Ensure safe and efficient digging with our comprehensive pre-excavation checklist. Covering everything from office planning to jobsite inspections, this guide helps you avoid costly mistakes and...

Pre-Excavation Checklist

Ensure safe and efficient digging with our comprehensive pre-excavation checklist. Covering everything from office planning to jobsite inspections, this guide helps you avoid costly mistakes and...

Hazards & Hidden Costs of Home-Made Tools

Hazards & Hidden Costs of Home-Made Tools

Utility companies and contractors are under pressure to control operating costs. With air compressors common on job sites, some work crews fashion their own air-powered excavation tools in hopes of finding cheaper...

Hazards & Hidden Costs of Home-Made Tools

Utility companies and contractors are under pressure to control operating costs. With air compressors common on job sites, some work crews fashion their own air-powered excavation tools in hopes of finding cheaper...

Urban Tree Soil Replacement

Urban Tree Soil Replacement

Soil science and planting technologies for urban trees have undergone tremendous advancement in the last several years. For example, engineered structural soils can resist compaction from traffic or bear the weight of pavement or 

Urban Tree Soil Replacement

Soil science and planting technologies for urban trees have undergone tremendous advancement in the last several years. For example, engineered structural soils can resist compaction from traffic or bear the weight of pavement or 

Bare Rooting and Transplanting

Bare Rooting & Transplanting

Bare rooting is a procedure used to relocate or remove soil around existing trees. Use of an AirSpade for bare rooting is the best way to minimize damage to the tree’s root system and the most efficient technique available. 

Bare Rooting & Transplanting

Bare rooting is a procedure used to relocate or remove soil around existing trees. Use of an AirSpade for bare rooting is the best way to minimize damage to the tree’s root system and the most efficient technique available. 

Root Pruning

Root Pruning

Construction or maintenance work that makes intrusions into a tree’s root zone will benefit from use of an AirSpade. Air-spading is safe to the tree’s roots and a highly efficient method to perform exploratory excavation to locate existing 

Root Pruning

Construction or maintenance work that makes intrusions into a tree’s root zone will benefit from use of an AirSpade. Air-spading is safe to the tree’s roots and a highly efficient method to perform exploratory excavation to locate existing 

Root Collar Excavation

Root Collar Excavation

Trees commonly suffer when the grade is set too high against their root flare or root collar. This can occur when trees are planted at the wrong elevation or when trees subside due to improper compaction below the root ball when they are

Root Collar Excavation

Trees commonly suffer when the grade is set too high against their root flare or root collar. This can occur when trees are planted at the wrong elevation or when trees subside due to improper compaction below the root ball when they are

Vertical Mulching

Vertical Mulching

Vertical mulching with AirSpade is done to de-compact and augment soil deep into the tree root zone. This application is especially useful in areas with poor drainage, with shallow or impervious soils, or shared by perennial or ground-cover

Vertical Mulching

Vertical mulching with AirSpade is done to de-compact and augment soil deep into the tree root zone. This application is especially useful in areas with poor drainage, with shallow or impervious soils, or shared by perennial or ground-cover

Radial Trenching

Radial Trenching

Radial trenching with AirSpade is done to modify soil composition, improve aeration, and encourage root growth to moderate depths (typically 10”-12” or more), and is especially effective when trees have highly stratified or shallow depth of viable soil or 

Radial Trenching

Radial trenching with AirSpade is done to modify soil composition, improve aeration, and encourage root growth to moderate depths (typically 10”-12” or more), and is especially effective when trees have highly stratified or shallow depth of viable soil or 

Air Tilling (Root Invigoration)

Air Tilling (Root Invigoration)

Trees and shrubs suffering from shallow soil compaction (typically due to pedestrian use or vibrations caused by vehicular traffic,) or lacking vigorous root growth due to poor topsoil quality (lack of organic matter, nutrients, 

Air Tilling (Root Invigoration)

Trees and shrubs suffering from shallow soil compaction (typically due to pedestrian use or vibrations caused by vehicular traffic,) or lacking vigorous root growth due to poor topsoil quality (lack of organic matter, nutrients, 

Technical Applications

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