Digging trees and shrubs for transplanting

Ballschneider are machines that are used in nurseries and growers to cut the root ball of trees or shrubs out of the ground and then lift the trees out of the ground. They are available as an attachment for a tractor or self-propelled.

The devices are used to either implement woody plants for further breeding in the nursery to harvest ( to " verschulen " ) or for sale by the bale. As Bales trees are referred to in contrast to the so-called bare-root goods in which adhering to the roots of earth remains largely. Thus the bale does not disintegrate from roots and soil, it is baled, ie in a cloth mesh, wire mesh, or combinations thereof involved. The size of the bale is based on the size of the wood and is generally eight times the trunk diameter. The ball cutters can be therefore equipped with different sizes of cutting tools.

The multiple Verschulen of a wood in the nursery is done, among other things, to keep the root ball compact. It is necessary to transplant larger trees at all or economic costs. Leaving a tree easy to grow, the root system becomes too large and far-reaching. Undermines one of such a tree, then he loses too many roots to provide after re- planting nor the crown with water and nutrients can.

Transplanting trees with bales keeps the root system compact, but is very expensive because of the time involved in manual labor. Ball Schneider have significantly streamlines this process, so that larger trees can be maintained economically to transplant. Nevertheless, even today using the more expensive machines a repeated Verschulen with ever larger root ball the price of larger trees very much.

The root ball is involved in cloth and wire mesh ( baled )