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Sage people of the Palm Talk Forum: There are 10 royal palms on my street, I usually cut the fronds up by hand, pulling the individual leaves by hand, then cut up the stem with a handsaw . The part that grabs the trunk you can tear up by hand as well if you just pull the fibers apart starting from the bottom. . After doing this for twenty years, I'm starting to get bored of it. Is there a cost effective chipper out there that can chip these while they are still green? Most reviews of anything non-commercial mention how royal palm fibers make it a challenge. Oh, and I want to use these fibers as mulch
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I think they will gum up a chipper, they are not brittle enough.  If you find a good one let me know if it doesn't get gummed up.  I dont know of any palm type chipper.  Monocots like palms are constructed of fiber, not wood.  This makes them more flexible and resistant to chipping.

Formerly in Gilbert AZ, zone 9a/9b. Now in Palmetto, Florida Zone 9b/10a??

 

Tom Blank

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