My Greatest challenge ever

[alpineart]

This was a challenge of the enormous kind

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how do you get these out

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and back to my place in 6 hours

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Thats a 200mm piece of concrete there next to the trunk , Hire an Excavator and a few blokes a crack the whip .

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Home and hosed, damaged by the excavator operator , he certainly won't be getting a full days pay for this effort .

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these were removed under full instructions and my methods employed .

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the last one , all up 8 monsters were collected and numerous ground layers also . I ripped into the last ones with the chainsaw so the operator could see where the trunks were . These were approximately 3.0 x 3.0m , currently cut down to about 1.2m round and 1m high , the bases range from 200mm to 350mm plus , haven't had a good look yet . Best get out there and trim them up ready to plant out .

Cheers Alpineart

[Paul B]

Holy @^%$,

Now that is a good score, and I am sure they are worth the effort and expense.
I am sure you you will do them justice

[ADO]

Holy massive junipers batman

what kind are they?

some awesome stock there

[Andrew F]

SQUAMATA heaven.

Theres so many front gardens around here over run by them. Community spirit in me says go there tonight and take it

I look forward to what you have in store for them Alp.

[Sean M]

did you need council permission to pull theses out? Or did you just rock up and claim them?

[Booga]

Well done on the collection Alpine I recon that will keep you busy for a few days!

[The Hacker]

very Nice work Alpine your lucky I spotted them as we drove past & pointed them out to you when I was up visiting a few weeks back hope you got me a small one to have a play with something around the 200 mark will do just fine

[Brian]

Hi Ian,
thats a real challenge for you. I need to come up to Myrtleford with the Hacker and give you a helping hand.

[bodhidharma]

I know you are not replying because you are way to busy potting up and sorting out. Hope the survival rate is good Just what you need hey, more work Hard to resist though.

[emi93m]

Couldnt off happened to a better bloke I am green with Juniper envy Mate cant wait to see what you do with them. Keep us posted.

Cheers Mick

[alpineart]

Hi Paul.B , i did the sums on pots alone that will set me back $1500 plus, they will be alpineartworks for sure .

hI ado , i think there a mix of European and Chinese , haven't bothered with the I.D yet.

Hi V.S mate with material like this there is not a lot to do its already there , just trim and grow .

Hi Sean.mitchell1, yes mate you need council permission, or tender for them . Full insurance is a requirement safety vest, traffic management , a couple of labourers , an excavator , a full wallet , now empty , and big gonads .

Hi Booga they will be in the ground by lunchtime tomorrow , have to keep the labourers employed until dark tonight .

Hi Hacker , where the bloody hell is my excavator, Sorry mate there is no 200mm trunks they start at 250mm plus , but i might give you a small ground layered trunk of 100mm excellent raft style .

Hi Brian , no real challenge now there home . These would be easier than playing with a bonsai juniper as there is more to work with, welcome anytime .

Cheers guys Alpineart

[alpineart]

Hi Bodhi , mate cant not say no to a challenge , sorted the layers and one tree, now for the next little one .I hope to get 2 more trimmed tonight .

Hi emi93m, mate i'm taken pics as we sort them out and plant them .

Cheers Guys . Alpine

[Andrew F]

I forsee a shari load of shari and jin.

[fiveoffive]

Good Lord man, you have the luck of the devil !!

you can now make me a flying dragon with all that stock

$1500 is a few bucks , but with your skill and ideas thats nothing to what you will make off selling your art works.

( if your geting to many bonsai at your place just let me know i'll come take some. )

Ps
Finds like that could not happen to a better person.
You allways help all us new guys

PPS
Send me some images of ya plans for them.and i'll start saveing me lunch money for 1

[alpineart]

Hi V.S , plenty of jins and shari's on all of them and they will take some serious carving too.

Hi fiveoffive , mate 8 x 600-700mm pots at least 150mm deep wont be cheap, but it will be worth it .I have trimmed 3 and planted out another 15 ground layered branches between 20 and 80mm thick and all the layers a Juniperus Sabina/ Savin junipers , my favorite juni for phoenix grafts . Only 5 trunks to go and a couple of layered section. There's a lot of lunches in this buggers .

Cheers Guys Alpine