First of all, PALMS ARE NOT WOOD like trees.
It was around 2004 that I had a customer get me to cut all the heads off a few cocos palms and they were going to do the rest.
With Pomie before Christmas 2007 we returned by customers request to do the rest, yes he left them that long.
Some of the poles were 30'+ still, pool, fences ... the usual.
However they were dangerously rotten, YOU DARE NOT CLIMB THEM.
We had to fell them, they land with a splat flat. They dont hold a scarf well, and dont pull too hard on the pull rope either. Was a balancing act but all went OK.
I cut them all the way down now, every time, if a customer wants to save money etc and requests a pole be left .. to bad, try get an electrician to save money by leaving exposed unfinished wires, get a builder to save money by using half the trusses req'd etc. Not an option, we're the pro's, they gotta go down to a safe height ... and no, they dont make good poles for shade sails and lights!
