Bottle Palm Bites the Dust....

[Looking Glass]

On 6/15/2023 at 11:55 AM, Missi said:

Thanks for the recommendations on the other tools. Can never have enough quality tools!! What do you use to sharpen your loppers/pruners?

And those are gorgeous palms! I’m definitely going to have to add a few to my collection.

Your recip saw sounds amazing! Mine is the ol’ Ryobi One. As you can see in the green part, it’s nice and open for plenty of material (and pathogens?) to enter 

 

I don’t keep loppers razor sharp, but a have various stones, and hand sharpeners, around that I polish up blades like that with when needed.   For things that I do want to keep razor sharp, I have a Spyderco Sharpmaker, with some additional stone bars, that I like a lot.   

[baarsofia42]

On 6/5/2023 at 8:21 AM, Looking Glass said:

Finally some sun today, so I polished off the bottle palm.  I decided just to cut it up like a birthday cake, then just saw up all the roots in the soil.   I couldn’t deal…. It was probably a couple hundred pounds.   It was like a fresh melon inside.   The rot was only on the very top.   

I used the multi grip saw and the diablo blades….  Thanks for the recommendations.   It worked great.   

Next day off I’ll put these in.   Even though it’s probably a bad idea that I’ll regret in 10 years.   They’ll likely enjoy the spot.  

Glad to hear you had some sunshine! It sounds like quite the project with the bottle palm. Cutting it up like a birthday cake must have made for an interesting process, especially discovering the fresh interior. Dealing with a couple of hundred pounds can be quite a workout. Hopefully, the removal of the roots went smoothly, and the result is a refreshed space. Enjoy the transformed garden!