What used to take days now can be done in minutes. One man using this massive ninety-inch tree spade can extract a mature tree from the ground, haul it away, and replant it using only a few minutes for each operation.



James H. Craven, an early OU landscaper, planted this juniper tree as a seedling behind Evans Hall in 1914. It was fifteen years old and weighed nearly 6,000 pounds when transplanted to the north oval in 1929.



In 1932, it took eight men and a light truck to move this tree to the north oval for planting.



It required four men and four horses in 1928 to get this tree out of the ground and to its new home on the north oval.