Lajoie Bros. General Contractors used a rear mounted Boom Truck Crane to set a 60 ft. tall evergreen in Market Square Park in Augusta, Maine.

“Try not to break it,” Bruce Chase, the city’s recreation director, instructed the crane operator before the tree was brought downtown. “Just be delicate, because it’s such a beautiful tree.”

“It’s the biggest tree we’ve had, so it’s been the biggest challenge we’ve had,” Chase said, referring to the logistics of planting so large a spruce in downtown Augusta. Traffic had to be blocked on Water Street for about a half hour so the crane could unload it.

The tree was lowered into a 4-foot hole and secured with a corrugated plastic sleeve and lumber wedges. When one of the people helping raise the tree asked “where’s the tree stand” as a joke, Chase responded with faux shock, “I knew there was something I forgot!”

Several area companies provided free labor for the tree raising Saturday, including Chavarie Tree Service and Lajoie Brothers contractors.

 

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