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Re: tree jobs this week
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2015, 05:07:45 pm »
There's some kind of oil in palm trees that will just ruin a chainsaw under the chain cover. You have to be careful about buying used saws from palm infested areas.
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Re: tree jobs this week
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2015, 05:45:47 pm »
Wow that is some bad mag rot.
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Re: tree jobs this week
« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2015, 05:54:26 pm »
We do a lot of palm and yucca removal jobs and my guys break down the saws and spray LPS or wd40 on the side covers/case at the end of the day. It's shocking how quickly the palm juice corroded the magnesium if you don't clean them after each use. Nasty stuff!

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Re: tree jobs this week
« Reply #13 on: January 14, 2015, 06:04:01 pm »
Dave, we use climbing spurs (spikes) on the palms if inaccessible with a lift.  There's a fungus called Fusarium Blight in the Phoenix palms here and the main way it is spread is from tree to tree is climbing spurs or from chainsaws/Handsaws. After pruning one of these Palms the chainsaws (tools) have to be broken down and disenfected with Clorox or like.  Cost to replace one of the specimen phoenix palms can be more than $30,000 so it's high stakes pruning if you are careless and infect someone's tree.

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Re: tree jobs this week
« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2015, 06:05:24 pm »
The wood is like oriented strand corn broom. 

But the strands clog up the saw and there is silica all infused withing the strands. The chain dulls quickly.
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Re: tree jobs this week
« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2015, 05:50:59 pm »
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Re: tree jobs this week
« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2015, 05:52:15 pm »
Was the bees in that tree?

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Re: tree jobs this week
« Reply #17 on: January 15, 2015, 05:57:07 pm »
Yep, I'll post another pic with my guy wearing a bee keepers net over his hardhat!!

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« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2015, 06:05:26 pm »
I think you can see the blue nylon topped bee net on his head. Got stung 4 times before we sent up the bee net.

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Re: tree jobs this week
« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2015, 07:57:09 pm »
Is that a eucalyptus tree.   
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