Fig and serviceberry trees: to cut or uproot?

I have some beautiful bearing trees (fig and serviceberry) that a concrete truck must pass over. They have been establishing for 3 years and I hate to undervalue their hard work by treating them carelessly because of my lack of foresight. I know people on permies have been here...

In your experience, can you say whether trees (especially such as these) benefit more from being cut down and allowed to resprout, or from being dug up and replanted? Of course dormancy matters...these trees would be uprooted/cut in the prime of their activity, while ripening fruit. :(

Last year I dug up two chestnuts and found that the 3-year established seedling chestnut fared much better when transplanted to a totally different soil type than the 1.5 year grafted chestnut, itself 2-3 years old and 6 feet or so, has done transplanted to very similar soil just 100 feet away. Go figure!

How about do it all?

-take a few cuttings an place in water

- cutt a portion out with its root and transplant

- cut down low and hope for re-sprout

Serviceberry (saskatoon) has a deep tap root and vigorous root system. Feel free to chop it to the ground. It will send up 50 new shoots in the next couple of years. Basically, your saskatoons don't care a feather or a fig. However, I know nothing about fig trees, and I hope they will survive.

Can you do something crazy like net them down one way? Maybe a sheet of plywood on top to shield them. Laying them down in the direction the truck has to go, and asking the driver "straddle" the plants so the tires don't drive directly over the plants? Then maybe nothing breaks and they'll happily spring back up like nothing happened.

The fig will survive being cut to the ground without a problem.

Thanks everyone! It's nice to know I don't have to lose these beautiful trees.

I was hoping somebody could tell me what is best for the trees' welfare...but that's ridiculous, every tree is different and even if it's not (because it's a clone or grafted), every situation is different.

It sounds like the trees would do equally well dug up or cut down. I read on houzz https://www.doityourself.com/stry/how-to-transplant-a-serviceberry-tree, you should wrap the roots in damp mulch and wait til autumn to transplant. I have one more day with an excavator...maybe I'll just bite the bullet and move the trees. I hate the feel of tearing roots but I can give them huge new prepped planting sites when I have a machine.

they will recover...might take a year or two....

also you can plant now..it is just that you'd have to water them in for a few weeks to be safe unless you get regular(every few days) good soaking rain...otherwise Fall is best as it is usually more cool(less evaporation) and more rain.