Mellow
BCMA
I hate palms!
Tree felling vids
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Ditto... 
Check cleared though.
Check cleared though.
gf beranek
Old Schooler
I've done only enough to know palms are gross dirty.
And the spikes on P. canarianus. The worst. I found birds impaled by the spines.
But on the flip-side palms are really pretty in the landscape.
And the spikes on P. canarianus. The worst. I found birds impaled by the spines.
But on the flip-side palms are really pretty in the landscape.
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TreeHouser
What are palms?
stikine
Treehouser
Apparently hellish incarnations of something we don't like !
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TreeHouser
That must be it. Price they pay to live and work in year round warmth.
flushcut
TreeHouser
Spikes, big sharp spikes, suffocation from skirt collapse. Hard pass for me. But some people like cutting grass.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I grew up in the forest in WA. Driving to this SoCal desert for Christmas and seeing palms was an exciting treat to me as a kid…now having lived here and dealt with them, I miss pines real bad…
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Where in WA? East side pines? Far east WA?
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
Whidbey Island :-)
Burnham
Woods walker
Darn few pines there 
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davidwyby
Desert Beaver
@Burnham I assume you are referring to Whidbey, and if so, I see what you did there, and yes, you got me…OTOH, looks like a pine, smells like a pine, sticky sap like a pine…must be a pine.
Down here we had quite a few nice big Aleppo pines which don’t grow in the shape of most conifers. More of a spread crown which is nice for shade. Most of them are dead from a beetle or something. I had two more traditional long needled conifers in my front yard. Jeffreys maybe. One died, but with much effort and application of various fertilizers and insecticides, I think I have saved the other. Shades my driveway, which is valuable despite the sap and bird poop on my truck.
My neighbor has one of, if not the last of the Aleppos. Awesome tree. I keep an eye on it and will do whatever I can to keep it alive.
Down here we had quite a few nice big Aleppo pines which don’t grow in the shape of most conifers. More of a spread crown which is nice for shade. Most of them are dead from a beetle or something. I had two more traditional long needled conifers in my front yard. Jeffreys maybe. One died, but with much effort and application of various fertilizers and insecticides, I think I have saved the other. Shades my driveway, which is valuable despite the sap and bird poop on my truck.
My neighbor has one of, if not the last of the Aleppos. Awesome tree. I keep an eye on it and will do whatever I can to keep it alive.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Is whidbey in the Olympics' rain shadow?
gf beranek
Old Schooler
Funny, I thought it was an island.
Confused with Gary, old member, air traffic controller.
btw, nice pic of that Aleppo.
Confused with Gary, old member, air traffic controller.
btw, nice pic of that Aleppo.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
@SeanKroll @gf beranek
Whidbey is 40 mi Long Island. IIRC, the north end gets 19” rain/yr and the south end gets 40.
Whidbey is 40 mi Long Island. IIRC, the north end gets 19” rain/yr and the south end gets 40.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
Stolen from Google Maps…I actually need to get some more pics of it and it’s dying lesser brother for the forum’s opinions. The limb hanging over the road to the right looks too heavy to me, like it needs to be lightened.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
The Google pic is old…here is today. Yeah, she Saggin’. The little one is missing most of the bark around the top of the somewhat exposed root flare.
stikine
Treehouser
There's always something creative going on in the YouTube universe 
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TreeHouser
Just goes to show any idiot with a chainsaw can be famous on YouTube.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Needs more cow bell.
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TreeHouser
Clank clank clank…..,
