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6th May 2007, 12:01 PM
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Hey He's a little shy but I snapped off a few pics of him culling the neighbours 2 palms closest to my house. Was getting flowers in my gutter, when fronds drop they bash the roof, close to retaining wall, the stupid crows and lorikeets sit in there carrying on in the mornings and the neighbour mows our lawn 3 times in return. 
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6th May 2007, 12:08 PM
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| Monument Status  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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Oh the inhumanity....those poor defenceless palms  |
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6th May 2007, 12:16 PM
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Jim1NZ looks like one cool dude! What kind of spikes is he using? |
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6th May 2007, 01:40 PM
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He's got those bizaar Gecko's. I haven't climbed on them but tried them on, I dunno, if ya climbed on Bashlin alloys with caddy pads then you'd be able to make a fair comparison. But I might give them a try on Tuesday on some cocos palms.
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7th May 2007, 06:46 PM
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Sweet. I was wondering where Good ole' Jim boi had gotten to. What harness is he in?
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8th May 2007, 01:17 AM
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Hey how it going, yea i cant believe i killed 2 innocent palms just because they were "dropping leaves in the gutter " haha. There was a group of 4 so i like to think im just giving the others a chance to prosper.Yea im on geckos and love them, so light and soo comfortable - as far as wearing spikes goes. Im climbing on a Butterfly but thats soon to be replaced by a Tree Motion when i get to Europe. Will keep you all updated! 
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8th May 2007, 01:27 AM
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CHECK THIS OUT! What snake is it??? Would it kill me.... 
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8th May 2007, 01:30 AM
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8th May 2007, 01:34 AM
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Should give the gekos a go,to me buckingham are most comfy followed by bashlin.But trhats just me only sets ive used.
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8th May 2007, 03:40 AM
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Hi jim1nz, If your faint hearted he'll kill you quik smart,apart from from scarein you to death he's harmless, Carpet python, but if he strikes and hits you now thats going to smart!! With snakes treat all as piosoness keep away. 
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8th May 2007, 08:33 AM
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Non venomous but you'd get a nasty bite if it had a go at you ... didn't exactly look happy. Ole Steve Irwin would have picked it up, played with it and maybe even kissed it when he let it go like Rex Hunt does with the fish he releases. Imagine you're up a cocos palm about to clean it and that sticks it's head out at you!
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8th May 2007, 08:28 PM
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Na i dont get too phased but much, ha a mate Matty thats lives here who i was hanging out with in the weekend, threw a bloody rubber snake at me and yelled LOOK OUT! Gez i was not impressed.
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8th May 2007, 08:39 PM
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I get the feeling that you folks down there feel about some palms like we do about some poplars over here |
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8th May 2007, 11:10 PM
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Poplars are great, nice to work on, smell a bit though haha.
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9th May 2007, 11:11 PM
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Jim did his first shit stick today. Now he knows why we call them that.
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9th May 2007, 11:20 PM
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He struggled then bam, it got him good!
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9th May 2007, 11:35 PM
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Oh don't worry Jim you just joined a very large club...I've been a member a few times over....&*^%ing queen palms hey how'd you find the lockjack?
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9th May 2007, 11:36 PM
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Then I asked him if he saw my bore-wing cut video and  And yeah, he remembered it, and got motoring on real good. You have to make sure the overlapped cuts are only like 10mm or so apart or you wont snap the block off.
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9th May 2007, 11:52 PM
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Yea thats the one Ekka. Never cut any thing even similar to palms, Ekka you were just waiting for it to happen to me wear'nt ya haha. Boa, the positioner is awesome, great in sticky sap. It holds every time NEVER slips and there is no slack/wasted motion when adjusting like there is with prussics. It takes a bit to get used to though, the device is a bit touchy when releasing with tension at first but i would never go back to a prussic (knut) again.
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10th May 2007, 12:12 AM
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You haven't done palms ifin you havn't got your saw stuck!..LOL.. once is enough..especially if the customer is watching! my best one was telling the customer about the bloody great big palm spiders that get on you..and have a guess what came wondering up over my shoulder..a bloody great big palm spider....ewwwwww..my face near on turned inside out.....but we all had a great laugh about it as soon as I finnished doing the slap Hate palms with a passion!!
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10th May 2007, 11:06 AM
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| Lol you meany Ekka, that was entrapment! But when you do cut them right, jeez it's great when it glides straight through like that. I remember the first time I got my saw stuck in a palm, I remeber it vividly because the customer was one of them really good asian ones and was there watching. It got clamped, yelled down for the 250 up and cut it out, it was really embarressing... But all was good, he offered us a bunch of some beer (Some posh brand I'd never even heard of) but none of us drank so we respectfully declined.
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10th May 2007, 11:24 AM
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Good job! I know you guys all say you hate them, but those trees look like fun. My wife is from Mexico, but I've never cut any of the palms or coconuts. One time I did end up falling a bunch of pine for timber of all things.
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10th May 2007, 09:19 PM
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Well some may hate them but I don't, apart form the mess the head makes. They are alot of fun to take down, excellent to practise your wedges on, speed up a pole on spikes, bombing the heads out, I've rigged down logs and heads, but still to speedline a palm. That and they arn't under the Tree Preservation Order which means no waiting time and you can do them straight away. The real palms to hate are the Washies grr... They are so thorny/huge/heavy/shitloads of deadfronds...
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13th May 2007, 01:45 AM
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18th May 2007, 08:49 AM
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I climbed and Jim lugged, he didn't like the palms much ... bloody heavy.
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18th May 2007, 11:04 AM
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Welcome to my world of loading palms . No kanga?Tut tut tut, where was the FULL PPE? Lol, just joking. How many more days do we have you in Aussie, Jim?
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18th May 2007, 11:56 AM
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1! He left me this morning and visiting his other kiwi mate here, tomorrow he's going to Sweden.
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18th May 2007, 12:15 PM
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So, after Sweden where you you going, Jim?
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19th May 2007, 06:21 PM
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What are you doinging to our golden boy sending him on palmakazi jobs like that?????
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19th May 2007, 07:42 PM
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