These top pictures are the finished product of a long day of hard work. We still need to shave them, but it's very time consuming and will take us some time to do. Pictures really don't do it justice because they look so much better than they did before.
Josh shaving the palm tree. It looks so much better to have them shaved, but it is very messy and time consuming.
We started out with a ladder and a saw...we finished with a fork lift and a chainsaw/cutter. We never would have finished without this nice piece of machinery!Here you can see all the dead palm leaves...then you can see the neighbors trees...I am sure all sorts of creatures are living in their very overgrown palm trees. I am just glad that ours were not that bad!
Josh kept finding wasp nests, so he had a can of spray with him at all times! There was no way for him to run away...the spray worked wonders!
Yesterday we had a family work day and it literally took us all day long to finish it. I had been wanting to trim our palm trees since the day we moved in. Being from Oklahoma, I had no idea how to even start the process. We had a guy come and do 2 of our smallest tree's and that cost us $150. We had 6 more trees left and they were the tallest ones. At $10 a foot, we were looking at spending a whopping $1,000. I just couldn't pay that amount of money for my trees to be trimmed. 2 years later, we finally got motivated to get the job done and do it ourselves. By the end of the day we had a great system in place and I could say we are great palm tree trimmers not. In fact, a lady drove by and asked if we trimmed palm trees. I simply said, " only our own, my husband never wants to trim another palm tree after today!" We still need to shave 4 of them, but like I said earlier, it takes a lot of time and is so messy! For now I am happy with what we accomplished! Our neighbors would all drive by on their 4 wheelers on their way to have fun on a beautiful Saturday and we kept working our little hearts out! Next Saturday we will definitely be having some fun!