How to trim palm trees the easy way.....

[Cranky]

And this tree was the best looking one when spring time rolled around and only had minimal burn marks on the trunk.

 

[super-bee_ski]

What happened Cranky?
I see the fire, was this an accident?

 

[Cranky]

What happened Cranky?
I see the fire, was this an accident?

This tree was the third to be trimmed but it had a nasty wasp nest in it so.....it got lit off. It lit up like a match and could be seen for miles since it was about 40 feet tall. A buddy that was driving home from work saw it from 1/2 mile away and decided to check it out and wasn't surprised to see it was my tree burning lol. The surprising part was that no one called the fire department but already had an excuse ready for why it was on fire if they had come out...

 

[Richard Cranium]

Are you sure that it's not close up view of a match lighting a fart on fire?

 

[Photon440]

How does it look today?

 

[Cranky]

How does it look today?

A couple of years later we had a pretty hard freeze and they all 3 trees froze. Palm trees have a lot of water in them even in the winter time and they don't do all that well when it gets cold....at least these didn't. Anyways, they got cut down which really didn't hurt my feeling too much. I sold the house a few years later after getting flooded 3 times but the place still looks good today. Not sure if it's flooded anymore tho....probably not since it's not mine anymore lol

 

[Budnicks]

:iamwithstupid: I feel your pain cranky, I had 2 Date Palm trees,
that I got from a friend, in my front yard in Concord Ca., Waterfall Way, Turtle Creek house long time ago...

They thrived even when it got down in the 20's in the winter...

See one the tree trunks in the background on the left & right in the photos, with my old 49 Ford Pro-Gas Business coupe...

They're a real pain in the arse to trim & you had to use a really sharp chain saw or machete before they got too tall,
once they hit 20ft, it was nasty to deal with...

local bird & squirrels, even bugs loved them trees...

I did really like the look of them thou, it was my little tropics zone in suburbia...

 

[69 Charger RT/SE]

Are you sure that it's not close up view of a match lighting a fart on fire?

Only you would see it like that!!! (One of a kind). :fart: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling:


When I was in boot camp in 1961, we had a rather large (@280+ lbs) black guy in our company who just found out about lighting farts on fire and couldn't wait to try it. One day he was in the showers about to get a shower and he came running back into the barracks, yelling he had to fart, grabbed his Zippo, sat on his buddy's bunk, bare assed and lit a giant fart before we could warn him not to do it without clothes on. Needless to say, with no clothes on he had no flame arrester and it backed up on him, knocking him to the deck in pain complaining his guts had exploded.

Had he not been such a likeable and funny guy the rest of the guys might not have felt so bad for him. But after the pain was past, we ALL had a big laugh over the flame thrower effect of it.