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  • Nice job. You are a patient fellow vacuuming out that dirt to preserve the roots. I just dropped $1500 on an Air-Spade to do the same thing and am planning on using a Dust Deputy with my shop vac to excavate the debris. I hope it works. I have 5 spruce trees with roots right through the area I need to excavate.

  • @gfsugar2plus hey, saw your post about excavating around the spruce trees. How did you make out? Did your spruce trees survive or get damaged at all? i am planning on putting a pool in and need to excavate around one of mine that is about 30 years old and I'd hate to damage it or lose it! any of your thoughts or experiences would be extremely helpful! Thanks, Rob

  • @rxi115 I haven't received the Air Spade yet, so have not done anything. My excavation is like your electrical trenching - long and narrow. A pool is an entirely different thing. I think if you are to have a chance of saving the tree, you'll need to air excavate and expose the roots and both relocate and prune them as required under the guidance of an arborist. If you try that, make a video - that's good stuff. Cheers and good luck.

  • It's hard to tell in the video, but that's all grey PVC electrical conduit, not the white PVC water piping, right?

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