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14th April 2008, 06:24 PM
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| Afterburner is shakin'  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Canada
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|  Re: cocos palms trunks Sorry katrina, I am a Canadian, NO palms here, but here is a video Ekka did in OZ. www.treeworld.info/video/mush.wmv I am sure someone will be along shortly to answer your question. Last edited by TreeDimensional : 14th April 2008 at 06:25 PM. Reason: sp. |
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14th April 2008, 06:50 PM
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| Astronaut  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 679
| Re: cocos palms trunks Hi Katrina. If it is in a wide open space, then it can be left and felled at another time, if it is in a confined area then have it removed while it is fresh, cuz' if you leave it and it turns to mush then you're going to be in for ONE HELL OF A BILL to remove it because of the nature of the HUGE risk. Where abouts in Sydney are you?
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14th April 2008, 11:40 PM
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| Eric Frei Administrator - Brisbane L5 (Dip) Hort Cert III Arb + some  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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| Re: cocos palms trunks 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! 
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15th April 2008, 03:48 AM
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| Cruisin'  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Florida Keys
Posts: 84
| Re: cocos palms trunks I agree with Ekka, they rot quickly. Had a client request the same because of orchids attached to the spar. Only held up for about one year, then he lost most of the orchids and the trunk bent over and damage understory. Remove now. |
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15th April 2008, 04:17 AM
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| Cruisin' Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Austin, Texas
Posts: 97
| Re: cocos palms trunks People get into trouble thinking palms are trees when they are really more closely related to grass. Very few palm species will ever come back when the growing tips are cut out. Coconut palms never recover from being topped. Get them out before they fall down. Depending on how long ago they were topped, they may have already become bucket truck or crane removals. Not only does the trunk rot and become mush in very short order, but their pathetic root system rots away even faster which results in stem failure. |
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