Bloody Cotton Palm Trees:
Submitted by Moking on Wed, 2016-07-20 16:06
Geez- I wish I had chain sawed this when it was only 10 feet tall! These were all the rage to plant in the seventies. Hate them as well.
And no that's not me up there- had to pay for this removal:
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Justin M
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Hate those things.
Hate those things.
Snags
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Add Date Palms to the list!
Add Date Palms to the list! Getting someone to out cut it down was the easy part, no one wanted to touch the stump and roots. Took me weeks to dig the f**ker out
Paully
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Those cottons are the worst
theres no more uglier plant when they're that tall. Also there are few more flammable plants than them, when they have the skirt of dead fronds around the trunk - they burn like buggery, very quickly.
Jim
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Burning it might be cheaper
Burning it might be cheaper haha. I got a huge date palm and the rats love em.
Bend over
little johnny
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Man you need
A fish. Going squiding tomoz if you want to jump in. Pm me Moking if you are keen.:):)
Moking
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I'm all good, went
I'm all good, went squidding/fishing Tuesday. Got dinner. - Did this Palm on Wednesday. Thanks for the invite Johnny.
Got Grandkid "Duties" tomorrow.
Weather looking good all next week if you need someone to take the squid off the Jig. lol.
I'll be out there!
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fincher
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Also gota add the studio
Also gota add the studio cocos palms aswell with the amount off nuts they drop of not kept pruned. Like the 7 in our backyard as they were to tall so got them dropped to a foot above ground chucked the fronds out on the verge as we had green waste and the trunks to me dads for the bomb fire ready for next year lucky he's on 5 acres so most my green waste goes to his
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Vinesh87
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I just pulled out 3 big gum
I just pulled out 3 big gum trees and have about 20 cocos palms to go.. good times the stumps are the most fun haha
mullows
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You blokes need one of
You blokes need one of these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVAJT2ThP-4
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Mullows
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meglodon
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I used to use a quicker method
When I was a lot younger I used to use 1/2 to 3/4 of a case of gelignite (AN60) stumps used to jump clean out of the hole in no time flat.
Mind you it was very important that you had good neighbours and they lived at least 1 mile or so from your boundary.
It also paid you to stay under cover for 1/2 an hour or so after setting if off, by then it should have stopped raining wood.