There are palm trees ALL over the base, including in our front yard! While it's cool to see coconuts growing on the trees, it's also...dangerous...duh duh duh. But seriously, after the coconuts reach a certain size they literally just fall out of the trees! So in an effort to avoid serious injury, the housing people trim all the palm trees before the coconuts start falling on our heads.
We've seen them use two different techniques to trim the trees, but I'm not sure what determines which method they will use.
We've seen them use two different techniques to trim the trees, but I'm not sure what determines which method they will use.
The first method is having a guy just scale the tree with some kind of tree climbing rope thing (sorry, I don't know any technical terms for tree trimming equipment :) and quick feet. It was pretty cool to watch this guy in action!
On a side note, this guy caught me taking his picture so he stopped and waved! That's talent ;-)
The second method of palm tree trimming (pruning?) involves using a truck with a cherry picker basket. That is the method they used to cut the palm tree in our yard.
I took this picture of our palm tree right before they came over to prune it. Sorry it's not the best angle for comparison, but they were trying to kick me out of my yard ;-)
Here they are in action. Sorry about the cord in the picture, I had to take the photo through our kitchen window so I didn't get knocked out by falling coconuts and palm fronds!
Our tree after it was hacked to death!
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