Big Nut

justoon · 2nd March 2007, 07:07 AM

Just been away for the last 2 weeks on a road trip to mossman and when i got back to the workshop one of our service teams had kept one of the biggests coconuts ive seen collected from a tree that we maintain locally.we have not wieghed it but i reckon around if not more than 10kg.look at the size of it compared to the persons ( wes) head

TREE-SURFER · 2nd March 2007, 07:58 AM

That's quite a big nut.

Eric Frei · 2nd March 2007, 06:18 PM

Imagine if that hit Keith Richards in the Head!

newguy18 · 22nd November 2008, 12:39 PM

Imagine parking a car underneath a tree full of them in a wind storm.

Sean Freeman · 22nd November 2008, 12:46 PM

It has been my experience that all the nuts are bigger up north

Eric Frei · 27th October 2010, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eric Frei

Imagine if that hit Keith Richards in the Head!

Well, his story about the tree incident is finally out, and it's nothing like what the media speculated.

Quote:

Keith Richards: 'How I nearly died falling out of a tree' | Mail Online

Keith Richards has revealed he nearly died after falling out of a tree while on holiday in Fiji.

The star fractured his skull when he fell from the tree whilst on holiday with wife Patti Hansen, 54, Stones bandmate Ronnie Wood, 63, and his ex-wife Jo Wood, 55.

At the time, reports had claimed the tree was 40 feet high - but Richards insisted it was no more than 'seven feet.'

And writing in his autobiography Life, which came out 25 October, Richards, 66, revealed he did not think anything of the accident until two days later when he developed a headache while on a sailing trip.

‘Forget any palm tree. This was some gnarled low tree that was basically a horizontal branch.

‘It was obvious that people had sat there before because the bark was worn away. And it was, I guess, about seven feet up.’

Richards, who had earlier been swimming, told how he decided to climb out of the tree when it was lunchtime.

‘There was another branch in front of me and I thought I’ll just grab hold of that and gently drop to the ground.

‘But I forgot my hands were still wet and there was sand and everything on them and, as I grabbed this branch, the grip didn’t take.

‘And so I landed hard on my heels, and my head went back and hit the trunk of the tree. Hard. And that was it. It didn’t bother me at the time.’

Unbeknown to Richards at that time, he had just fractured his skull.

Two days later, he wrote how ‘a blinding headache’ came on whilst they were on a boat trip.

He explained: ‘I found out later I was lucky that the second jolt happened.

‘Because the first one had cracked my skull and that could have gone on for months and months before being discovered, or before killing me. It could have kept on bleeding under the skull.

‘But the second blow made it obvious.’

Richards was given a record-breaking £4.6million advance for his memoirs.

second-gen_monkey · 27th October 2010, 11:09 AM

"big ones, small ones, some as big as your head!"

Bowani Siam · 27th October 2010, 05:25 PM

hahahahahahahahaha that's hilarious. what a whopper!

Jeff Darby · 27th October 2010, 06:25 PM

just goes to show you it comes out in the wash ! didn't some sir rag on you over this?

Done it · 27th October 2010, 10:33 PM

Good story here, wasn't posted there.

Barss, incidentally, wrote numerous frightening reports while stationed in the tropics. He's now teaching at United Arab Emirates University, in a desert city built around an ancient date oasis. Can't blame him for making the switch--who ever heard of getting KO'd by a falling date?

The Straight Dope: Are 150 people killed each year by falling coconuts?

2nd March 2007, 07:07 AM	#1
justoon Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Boyne Island Posts: 54	Big Nut Just been away for the last 2 weeks on a road trip to mossman and when i got back to the workshop one of our service teams had kept one of the biggests coconuts ive seen collected from a tree that we maintain locally.we have not wieghed it but i reckon around if not more than 10kg.look at the size of it compared to the persons ( wes) head Attached Thumbnails

2nd March 2007, 07:58 AM	#2
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22nd November 2008, 12:46 PM	#5
Sean Freeman Veteran Heritage Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland Posts: 1,981	Re: Big Nut It has been my experience that all the nuts are bigger up north

27th October 2010, 11:09 AM	#7
second-gen_monkey Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: miami, fl Posts: 121	Re: Big Nut "big ones, small ones, some as big as your head!"

27th October 2010, 05:25 PM	#8
Bowani Siam Mature tree Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sydney Posts: 320	Re: Big Nut hahahahahahahahaha that's hilarious. what a whopper!

27th October 2010, 06:25 PM	#9
Jeff Darby Moderator - Previously known as JayD Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: TreeWorld, Sydney Australia Posts: 2,059	Re: Big Nut just goes to show you it comes out in the wash ! didn't some sir rag on you over this? __________________ Member: Australian Tree Association Join the Australian Tree Association...Have your voice heard ! Arboriculture, A life long study for some, a passing phase for others © Jeffrey J Darby 2011

27th October 2010, 10:33 PM	#10
Done it Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Australia. Posts: 780	Re: Big Nut Good story here, wasn't posted there. Barss, incidentally, wrote numerous frightening reports while stationed in the tropics. He's now teaching at United Arab Emirates University, in a desert city built around an ancient date oasis. Can't blame him for making the switch--who ever heard of getting KO'd by a falling date? The Straight Dope: Are 150 people killed each year by falling coconuts?

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