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  1. T Collins

    Tree felling vids

    Oh I beg to differ... I have seen some of those well produced videos of you guys at Eastside and admire the level of professionalism that people have taken this trade to. I prefer safety over rough and tumble practices but I did what I did and paid the price. Now I'm training my sons to try and...
  2. T Collins

    Tree felling vids

    It really is a cowboy job, but damn if it don't pay good. Simple cleaning $180-250 and I could have one done in a half an hour to an hour depending where it was on the property . The palm cleaning business came from the high mortality and injuries that were attributed to falling nuts. At one...
  3. T Collins

    Tree felling vids

    RATS 🐀 I forgot to mention the RATS 🐀 and CENTIPEDES! Tons of them nest in the crowns. 🍬 Candy wrappers and garbage are a general sign that you have RATS 🐀 in your palms. Respirator and full sleeves, and change of clothes and a portable shower. I chopped many a "bird with ears" in half with my...
  4. T Collins

    Tree felling vids

    The roots are like piles of tendrils that stretch as much as a 30' radius. Big pukas or holes seldom rot but never heal either so long as the palm is living. You can climb them so long as the vertical chutes of new fronds look viable. Or if the crown can support nuts. They easily grow in Hawaii...
  5. T Collins

    Tree felling vids

    this is a Hawaiian drum or pahu that I made from the base of a coconut palm. Such neat material to work with and to think that they are not trees!
  6. T Collins

    Tree felling vids

    I have cut a coconut palm crown out that was full of nuts. I too wound up higher after the cut than when I started though not as much as this video. You go into the cut anticipating going for a ride but can't believe how far and slowly you wag about. The fiber of palms is amazingly strong.
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