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The Acton FreoPre Wednesday Apr 1 9 Doug Wood Cutting down a tree in s day and age is sure to upset a whole lot people In fact more citizens get riled up tree mutilation than they do over breaking of the ten command Up until now large trees in the way of rood street or municipal planning doomed Until John came on the scene John Is the largest tree mover in Canada recently imported from Arkansas by resident Doug Wood A boon to subdivision developers park planners and tree lovers everywhere the machine looks like a high yellow tulip opening slowly in the sun to admit the tree of it Big John con move trees up to high and up to 12 in diameter with a pound root ball in one smooth operation that leaves much less root trauma than former methods From lull Doug Wood who lives on a acre farm west of Acton In township Is as excited as a kid at Christmas about his new venture Last December Doug spent every work day morning barrelling down In a three piece suit his brief case beside him ready to battle the world as national sales manager for Coutts Hall mark In Toronto Now he ties his Jeans with a piece of bailer twine swings up into the cab of his enormous Ford Diesel tandem axle and shoves lot of trees Around It all started when Doug age decided he needed a change of lifestyle With the support of wife Carla and daughters Sharla Melony and Leigh he left his executive position of 12 years to venture into business for himself He wasn sure what the world needed at that moment until he started to inquire about plant fug some large trees around the Wood relatively new colonial family home Cost and work Involved in the operation were pro root prune the tree to be moved and later use five men to dig around the root ball A crane must be rented to lift the while its roots are hand wrapped In burlap The tree is crane lifted to a waiting flat bed truck moved and the whole process reversed Tree loss with large trees can be considerable One thing led to another and Doug never one to do things by halves found a machine made in the Stales could move large trees In one operation Unfortunately such a machine was unavailable in Canada There is a small model In Toronto which can move small trees but not the large Big John So Doug being Doug bought big Big John and went into business A love of nature and trees in particular is a the root of Doug s enthusiasm about his new endeavour He says whenever one of his horses gets out of its paddock and chomps up a little tree he bleeds Cutting down trees to mako way for prosperity has always distressed him Now he be able to move all the trees he wants Natural for landscaping Naturally the business now called Douglas Wood Large Tree Sales Ltd depends on areas other than saving endangered trees for lis Judging by the enquiries and business already received Doug knows there a terrific market in landscaping parka golf clubs new homes and commercial businesses People don want to wait years for shade trees he says Ho also adds that or worth off trees planted on a residential lot can In crease the value of the property by or S3 Which brings us very neatly to cost Prices arc variable depending on the amount of work to be done in any one area Doug has a wide assort of trees available to him right now and one can be placed in a waiting garden for as little as or less Trees from a InncLcapIng con tractor dually cost more Doug will also buy trees that have to be re moved ing in trees often have to be cut down at con cost to the homeowner When Doug is called the tree Is saved and the homeowner re ceives money up to instead of paying it out What happens when you call Doug to have a tree moved or bring you a new one Suppose your tree is to be moved First of all a deciduous tree would be pruned to accommodate the reduced root ball it would have in it new home Coniferous trees can be pruned as much The Big John machine has scoop blades that take a root ball seven feet wide and five feet deep This allows the fibrous ends of roots the feeding end go with the tree A chemical spray is used to seal the leaves The root ball after digging is soaked In fertilizer solution The Ire slowly tilted horizontally along the truck for moving and covered with a It is Iran sported to Its new hale previously dug by Big John or a if ground is rocky fertilizer pellets to feed the tree for a year are spread in the hole and the tree gently lowered Into Its new environment Conifers are sprayed to prevent winterkill Contrary to popular belief the kind of soil In Its new homo docsn matter does the side planted toward Hit sun the tree adapts to its changes Trees can be moved by this method from April to December Just a little rucking Doug will be sales and marketing manager for Douglas Wood Large Tree Sales Ltd while Cliff Britten a of forestry college and former employee of operating large equipment will be machine operator At the moment until Cliff Is free Doug Is doing all jobs and loving it Now he and his machine are In and revving tip to high gear for the amount of work that is already coming their way Big John Urge tree Firefighter Monday afternoon called out to the Frank Heller and Co on Eastern Ave 1000 damage in Hellers plant fire About damagt resulted from a re at the Frank Heller and Co plant on Ave Monday afternoon Acton Fire Chief Mick Holmes said firefighters were able to the Smoulder bags which collect dust in the plant The bags arc used to collect leather dust Though there were no v flames according to Mr Holmes workers had to be cleared from the building because of the smoke He estimated the damage at SI No sooner had fire fighters finished with the Heller job then they were called to a grass fire at the George Wallace property at Rock wood Mr Wallace used a half ton truck to carry firefighters to the distant spot of the blaze because the ground was too soft to support the fire truck In addition to the grass some cedar rails caught Sunday evening fire fighters were called to a chimney fire at the Hams Winther home at l Acton There was no dam age according to Mr Holmes Building business Continued from page 1 He feels the ope winter was an ad vantage to contractors and says hes busy with alterations and renovations It slackened off yet Bousfield of Construction says he s beginning to swing into de molition rather than construction He likes to restore older homes material he acqu res from taking down buildings Although the do It yourself craze Is on with many homeowners tackling their own renovations carpenters and contractors are still being called by people unable to do their own I feel sorry for people who can do it themselves says Bousfield even though renovations are his livelihood Labor Is the only thing they ve got left he adds referring to lack of money in general Bousfield feels the country will have to revert to the wasteless society of the and which is why he reusing construction materials I see no great future for a little while it going to be very tight he summarizes Bruce a drywall contractor says his business is pretty good be cause although people building they re trying to fix up what they have Most of his Jobs have been home improvements and he says been busy I m surprised myself Fred of Kent Construction t too optimistic about the future Business is alow right now because spring work t got underway but he says people haven t decided what to do because of high Interest rates He quotes one farmer not being able to build much needed and planned barn addition because his milk cheque just t cover the carrying char says he working with a skeleton staff and not rehiring until he sees how summer business shapes up Bruce Buchanan at an Acton building supply com pany comments his sales are no slower than usual at this time of year He was surprised to find business up In Jan He feels the number of con Jobs in Acton are about the same this year but people ore re novating Instead of buying new houses People are finding themselves re doing their 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