Making Trees a “Moving” Experience

by Rick Howland

Even after more than a century of growth and diversification, there are always new opportunities in the tree care business. Take, for example, the business of moving large trees, which, we discovered, is often a profit center born out of unexpected opportunity, at least in the experience of two companies in the Northeast.

One, Onderdonk’s Tree Care, Inc., head-quartered in Schodack Landing, New York, just south of Albany, specializes in moving some of the largest specimens in the country and in some very challenging situations, while using some of the largest pieces of tree-spade equipment ever built (much of it designed by the business owner).

The other, Harder Services, an accredited TCIA member company based more than 150 miles south on Long Island, is known throughout New York City for its ability to move trees – all dug by hand! – from one part of the city to another and for being able to work synchronously with a fastidious city parks department.

Read the rest of the April 2017 TCI Mag article