Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Transplanting a large crabapple tree, 1 by melsalz

melsalz wrote:
Has anyone ever had any luck doing this? I wonder if it's worth the trouble. We are in the process of building a new house. Unfortunately there are 2 very large 100 yr old crabapple trees that have to be removed. We do own a large backhoe/front end loader to use. Do you think it would be possible to try and transplant one of these? If so how would you go about it? I just hate the thought of losing these trees, we enjoy them so much now. If we are wanting the house these trees have to go. I just want to put it somewhere else on the property. What do any of you think?