Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
What makes them so lousy?
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1) The trunk is like concrete.
Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
Ive never dealt with one. I wouldn't know the first thing about them.
rumination
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+10!
Steve Mack
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This palm tree cost me $99.96 to dump, was 2940lbsglad I bid high
I usally turn palms down, just not worth it at all.
I stopped doing them last year mainly because of dump fees, that would have cost me about $370.
I got sick of telling people about it, even carried the price list with me and some still wouldn't believe to dump 3 or 4 cost over $1000. The islanders do them pretty cheap but they just tip them anywhere or get paid and leave them.
rskybiz
TreeHouser
I surely dislike doing them as well! I do have the luxury of them all going away for free to a totem carver, Palm tree Charlie.
Burnham
Woods walker
Never have, don't expect that to change either 
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I took a palm out of what had been a leaking fish pond in the office of the Dean of Education Department at Western Illinois University once. It was pushing out the sky light. It takes a long time for chain saw exhaust to clear from a room in the center of a large building, especially back in the days of mixing it 1/2 pint to a gallon. It was about a 4" tree and my handsaw just did not have enough set in it for the sticky stringy stuff.
Bixler
TreeHouser
I took a palm down, it was a short date type palm. I backed the truck right up to it and flopped it right into the bed. Then some people walked by and told me I could have sold the tree for $30,000, whoops!
BOTS, if you ever gotta get rid of palm, bring it over here, I have a cliff at my house, no prob.
BOTS, if you ever gotta get rid of palm, bring it over here, I have a cliff at my house, no prob.
bonner1040
Nick from Ohio
Pay to dump... that blows my mind.
You play it right here, you get paid for chips and logs!
You play it right here, you get paid for chips and logs!
Maximalist
Treehouser
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Love the axe man shadow!
Crazy how that grew up the wall like that... Tight place to work too..
Well done Andrew
Crazy how that grew up the wall like that... Tight place to work too..
Well done Andrew
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Outfriggingstanding!!!
pete mctree
Treehouser
That is getting it done Andrew - good job !!
rumination
Migratory Hippie Arbolist
Nice work!
NIce work Andrew!
Palms leave goop all over you, if dismantling there is ALWAYS a wobble, and yeah, they are heavy, full of crap at the top, fibres around the fronds will jam your saw, thorns will stick you...and the sap will start to eat your saw and rust your bar and chain within a few hrs after the job if you don't clean it right away.
For short , the best way is a strap at the top, a crane truck and cut at the bottom, lift and bye-bye.
Fortunately where I do palms, dump fee is a flat $25 per load.
About the only palm ok to work on are coconuts, at least you can get a drink when you're done if its a fertile one, and there are no thorns.
Palms leave goop all over you, if dismantling there is ALWAYS a wobble, and yeah, they are heavy, full of crap at the top, fibres around the fronds will jam your saw, thorns will stick you...and the sap will start to eat your saw and rust your bar and chain within a few hrs after the job if you don't clean it right away.
For short , the best way is a strap at the top, a crane truck and cut at the bottom, lift and bye-bye.
Fortunately where I do palms, dump fee is a flat $25 per load.
About the only palm ok to work on are coconuts, at least you can get a drink when you're done if its a fertile one, and there are no thorns.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
Super cool pics Andrew.
Mick!
TreeHouser
How are you getting that stuff out of the alley? Makes my back hurt just looking at the pics.
Good job.
Good job.
Bixler
TreeHouser
You killed it Andrew.
Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
Im not sure any of us know. He keeps tight lipped about the clean up process.
SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
Looks like a grapple truck job. What is the Russian equivalent of SW US Mexican cheap labor? Sure hope he's not doing it by hand. Does that bucket truck have a material handler?
