League City's 1/2 million lb tree move

[GhostTX]

The Ghirardi Compton Oak has been a piece of League City's history for over 100 years. The tree stands 56 feet tall, has a canopy that is over 100 feet wide, and is 135 inches around. It also weighs an incredible 518,000 pounds. A county road widening project put the future of the Ghirardi Oak in jeopardy. Council voted to use park dedication funds to hire Hess Landscaping Construction to move the majestic oak. A project that took them just under a month to complete.

[Fern]

good save.

[Sleeper]

Cool as hell imho, and im far from a tree hugger.

[quikag]

Thumbs up to Hess Landscaping. Awesome job.

[asphaltjunkie]

Damn fine job.

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[Big Dad]

I sure hope it survives the move , sad to lose such a great tree .

[347Mike]

I wonder if its a happy tree?

[Baba Ganoush]

I've got a big beautiful oak over my driveway. I fucking love that tree.

[petyweestraw]

Awesome. Tree that old should be saved. I want big trees bad. Hell ill let one be put in to be saved on my two acres.

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[ELVIS]

if they want to do the tree justice, get it on the next thing smokin' out of league city!

badass coupe in the pic baba!

god bless.

[Milo]

Pretty cool that people still think to save a tree. They could have saved alot of $ and just have it cut down.

[DriveWayBuilt]

Them Mexicans moved the shit out of that tree.

[talisman]

They tried to do that with The Witness Tree in Arlington so they could build a shopping center back in the 90s and killed it.

[Geor!]

They embellished the figure on the weight. Pretty sure they were including the tractors along with it.

[exlude]

They tried to do that with The Witness Tree in Arlington so they could build a shopping center back in the 90s and killed it.

To make way for a Kmart!