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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fishfiles" data-source="post: 51495" data-attributes="member: 782"><p>Got side tracked on my frozen pin yesterday  maybe I'll get to it today .............................Here is a cool hammer /driver story , I was always a mechanic but one company I worked for used me alot as an operator when things were slow with repairs ,  the company specialized in doing what every you could think up and would try anything as long as you were willing to pay , I can tell you some wierd stuff to do with equipment , we were working with a land scape company who was moving gigantic historical oak tree from the old Pontchartrain Beach site that was going to demo for new construction , they came up with a plan of digging a trench around the tree about 10 ft from the tree base , 6ft wide and about 8ft deep ,this was tuff digging and guys had to jump in the hole and cut huge roots with chain saws as we went along ,  they set a line boring machine into the trench and tried to bore holes under the tree to slide pipes in so that they could rig up and lift the tree out the hole with a crane , the roots were killing them , we came up with an idea to quicken the procedure and it work really well ................  we fabed a adaptor the slide over a  hydraulic breakers bit and the pipe they wanted to slide under the tree fit into the adaptor , we had a trench dug for the pipe to lay flat on the ground at the level to drive it , we flip the hammer around on the dipper/arm so that it pointed away from the machine , they grinded the tip of the pipe to a beveled edge so it would cut as it went ,  it easily pounded the pipe thru the soil and roots , they wrapped the mud and roots with burlap sacks and wire to keep the dirt from falling off , we put 4 pipes under each tree , been a long time but seems 3inch heavy wall pipe  is what was used , they trimmed a lot of the excess limbs off the trees , brought in a 100 ton truck crane and picked the trees out of the ground and loaded them on a truck ,  we did about 20 of them , we had another hoe digging the holes for the trees new home , I watched it took a few years for all the limbs to come back out on the trees , that was at least 25 years ago and the trees are still there and you can't tell they were relocated , it was pretty expensive for each tree but how can you put a price tag on a tree that is least 100 plus years old</p></blockquote><p></p>

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