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 on the fork lift trimming the trees! We had a huge mess to clean up when we were done.
Josh shaving the palm tree. It looks so much better to have them shaved, but it is very messy and time consuming.
This is one of the nicer trees because it is has been shaved.
Here you can see what we had to clean up once the trimming was done! So much fun!
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!
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 on the fork lift trimming the trees! We had a huge mess to clean up when we were done.
Josh shaving the palm tree. It looks so much better to have them shaved, but it is very messy and time consuming.
This is one of the nicer trees because it is has been shaved.
Here you can see what we had to clean up once the trimming was done! So much fun!
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!
6 comments:
I had no idea that you even had to trim them. Looks like lots of work, it's a good thing it sounds like Josh did a great job. I am sure you helped too, but he was in the pictures so that is why I say Josh.
Hey you should start up a business! Sounds like you could make some money! The trees look great! You did well. Just make it a service project for the other trees! Don't the scouts need something to do? Just a thought!
Hey you should start up a business! Sounds like you could make some money! The trees look great! You did well. Just make it a service project for the other trees! Don't the scouts need something to do? Just a thought!
Wow! What a production! They look great! That's nice that Josh is in construction and has access to all that equipment. Well, I hope you have a very fun and relaxing weekend this weekend! :-) You guys definately deserve it!
Wendy the trees look SOOO good! Josh you are such a worker! That is so nice he would do that for you! Hopefully he'll forget how hard it was by the time they need it again...way to go!
i had no idea about the care of palm trees, my appreciation just grew by leaps and bounds! hope you have a fun upcoming weekend as payment!
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