80 years old: a venerable age to undergo a transplant. However, this is the operation that took place this Wednesday morning, road from Avignon to Nîmes. The cedar a hundred years old which was on the roundabout before the Chemin Bas district was uprooted before being transported by exceptional convoy to Mas Boulbon. A joint operation by the City of Nîmes and the Metropolis who wanted to save the tree. It was in fact on the route of the T2 line of the Tram’Bus.
“It’s a big heart operation!”
Jerome Laithier specializes in this kind of work. “We do not tear it off, we will lift it. It is a tree that was planted a hundred years ago in a planter. The bottom today is one meter twenty. The tree has been triturated several times all around to create networks. It’s the luck we have. The large roots may have made ramicelli. He has his chances even if it’s a big heart operation anyway !”
After being prepared, the tree was therefore lifted by a crane before being laid down and transferred to a flatbed truck which had it. transported to Mas Boulbon. “The luck we have is that the sap is not rising. The tree will therefore be replanted in a large hole and will be watered regularly. We will know within two weeks, three weeks if he survived.”
Nearly a hundred trees saved
To save this tree, the layout of the Tram’Bus line T2 has been slightly modified. This is what the City and the Metropolis wanted. In total, almost a hundred trees will be preserved in this way. between the station and avenue Bir Hakeim. The operation this morning cost nearly 10,000 euros.
