okay so I took this video last spring this was an early April what I'm going to do is transplant some of these eastern red cedar trees I planted these back it would have been in 2009 now they're the right size a transplant they were only eight to ten inches tall when I first planted them you know I use the King of Spades Spade I go all the way around the tree I don't make the root balls on the eastern red cedar is very big because these are very tough trees they will grow right out of rock outcroppings and you can get away with a little bit smaller root ball on these trees and you can't with a white pine or a Norway spruce so all I do is I take the tree up just real careful you get a nice even root ball right there what I'm doing here is I'm actually making a windbreak at the front of the property so I moved the tree about a quarter mile to the west I'm not going to burlap these trees because I'm not gonna have them out of the ground long enough for them to really lose a whole bunch of moisture I use a fist scars world's best shovel it's an all steel shovel when I dig my holes now ordinarily if you're planting a tree on landscape you're gonna want to mend make that tree the hole for that tree about two to three times the size of the root ball but the problem I run into up here is that a lot of voles and mice will actually bro into the holes that I use to plant the trees and then coyotes and foxes will come around try to get the bowls of the mice out and they end up actually uprooting my trees so I try to make all my holes uniform so that the hole but I did with the balling Spade matches the hole but I dig with the tree planting shovel I'm using right here and I just go around and pack all the dirt and by hand around the roots real tight I try to get the tree as as close to vertical as possible but actually sometimes if it's a little bit bigger cedar tree I'll lean the tree into the wind just a little bit because the wind up here almost always comes out of the west in there I'm just trying to pack the dirt around the roots to get rid of any air pockets and then this is the finished product I did I think there's 35 or 40 of these cedar trees die transplant in this line and then hopefully in about four or five years I have a really pretty windbreak right in front of the property