Big move.When something's in the way, you move it. That was easier said than done in Auburndale, Florida Auburndale is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States. The population was 11,032 at the 2000 census. According to the U.S Census estimates of 2005, the city had a population of 12,381. , when the somethings were giant live oaks at a large construction site. One of the live oak trees weighed 353 tons (Transparent Optical Networking Services) A marketing term for providing dark fiber to a customer. The customer is responsible for generating the transmission signal and interpreting it at the other end. See dark fiber. and had a 42-foot rootball, the other weighed 326 tons and had a 35-foot rootball. The desire was to save the trees, so The Davey Davey may refer to:
The process took six weeks from beginning to new "home." Workers dug around the rootballs by hand to a depth of three feet, then cut the roots with handsaws, excavated the soil, and prepared it with burlap and wire. Pipes were used to create a platform under each of the rootballs. Each tree was moved to a trailer In communications, a code or set of codes that make up the last part of a transmitted message. See trailer label. and then transported about 300 yards to the live oaks' new home near a wetland. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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