Tree felling vids

[Mellow]

I hate palms!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Ditto...
Check cleared though.

 

[gf beranek]

I've done only enough to know palms are gross dirty.

And the spikes on P. canarianus. The worst. I found birds impaled by the spines.

But on the flip-side palms are really pretty in the landscape.

 

[flushcut]

What are palms?

 

[stikine]

What are palms?

Apparently hellish incarnations of something we don't like !

 

[flushcut]

That must be it. Price they pay to live and work in year round warmth.

 

[lxskllr]

Gee, permahot, palms, and venomous animals. What more could anyone ask for?!

 

[flushcut]

Spikes, big sharp spikes, suffocation from skirt collapse. Hard pass for me. But some people like cutting grass.

 

[davidwyby]

I grew up in the forest in WA. Driving to this SoCal desert for Christmas and seeing palms was an exciting treat to me as a kid…now having lived here and dealt with them, I miss pines real bad…

 

[SeanKroll]

Where in WA? East side pines? Far east WA?

 

[davidwyby]

Where in WA? East side pines? Far east WA?

Whidbey Island :-)

 

[Burnham]

Darn few pines there .

 

[davidwyby]

@Burnham I assume you are referring to Whidbey, and if so, I see what you did there, and yes, you got me…OTOH, looks like a pine, smells like a pine, sticky sap like a pine…must be a pine.

Down here we had quite a few nice big Aleppo pines which don’t grow in the shape of most conifers. More of a spread crown which is nice for shade. Most of them are dead from a beetle or something. I had two more traditional long needled conifers in my front yard. Jeffreys maybe. One died, but with much effort and application of various fertilizers and insecticides, I think I have saved the other. Shades my driveway, which is valuable despite the sap and bird poop on my truck.


My neighbor has one of, if not the last of the Aleppos. Awesome tree. I keep an eye on it and will do whatever I can to keep it alive.

 

[SeanKroll]

Is whidbey in the Olympics' rain shadow?

 

[gf beranek]

Funny, I thought it was an island.

Confused with Gary, old member, air traffic controller.

btw, nice pic of that Aleppo.

 

[davidwyby]

@SeanKroll @gf beranek

Whidbey is 40 mi Long Island. IIRC, the north end gets 19” rain/yr and the south end gets 40.

 

[davidwyby]

Funny, I thought it was an island.

Confused with Gary, old member, air traffic controller.

btw, nice pic of that Aleppo.

Stolen from Google Maps…I actually need to get some more pics of it and it’s dying lesser brother for the forum’s opinions. The limb hanging over the road to the right looks too heavy to me, like it needs to be lightened.

 

[davidwyby]

The Google pic is old…here is today. Yeah, she Saggin’. The little one is missing most of the bark around the top of the somewhat exposed root flare.

 

[Bermy]

I agree, end weight reduction.

 

[stikine]

There's always something creative going on in the YouTube universe

 

[lxskllr]

Note to self: Buy more ratchet straps.

 

[flushcut]

Just goes to show any idiot with a chainsaw can be famous on YouTube.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Needs more cow bell.

 

[flushcut]

Clank clank clank…..,

 

[davidwyby]