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Somerville Nurseries Inc. delivers Christmas trees with the help of the HIAB 081
Somerville Nurseries Inc. in Ontario are Canada's biggest producer of Christmas trees. They have cultivated fir trees at their plant school since 1950 and it is their focus on quality that has put them where they are today.
Their niche is supplying fir trees to re-wholesalers. The tree balls are contained in wire baskets. When the time comes for delivery, it is done with the help of the HIAB 081, equipped with an articulated grapple which lifts the tree balls on to the trucks.
Somerville's Production Manager, Paul Fraser, says that this enables just one person to do the job, where it used to take three.
In all, they operate six vehicles fitted with cranes and it isn't by chance that they opted for HIAB.
