Brisbane is a subtropical city, which means that we're blessed with a multitude of palm trees. When I first got here as a backpacker back in 1999 I was fascinated by the concept of palm trees in the middle of a city, and pretty much all of the first roll of film I shot over here was taken in the botanical gardens contrasting the flora & the CBD. Jetlag may also have played a part in that.
Then you need to chainsaw off the fronds, dropping them down to a crew with a mulcher below
Next let the chainsaw drop (using a very cool 'throw it out and let it swing' motion) and downclimb a little
Shimmy down the trunk and chainsaw off the bit that's above your head
and throw that down to the ground team
Repeat until the palm tree is no more
Easy.
This post dedicated to my Dad, who has a (perfectly rational) fear of both heights and chainsaws.
However palm trees can also be a pain. They drop big fronds that can get block up roof gutters, get tangled in overhead wires and generally make life complicated. I think that gardening fasion has also swung away from palms and they're seen as 'daggy' and old-fasioned.
So how do you remove a palm tree from the middle of a housing block? You can't just saw a wedge out off the bottom and shout 'timber'. First you need to climb the tree
Then you need to chainsaw off the fronds, dropping them down to a crew with a mulcher belowNext let the chainsaw drop (using a very cool 'throw it out and let it swing' motion) and downclimb a littleShimmy down the trunk and chainsaw off the bit that's above your headand throw that down to the ground team Repeat until the palm tree is no more
Easy. This post dedicated to my Dad, who has a (perfectly rational) fear of both heights and chainsaws.
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