While the holidays are here, and most people spend time trimming their Christmas tree, today's tree trimming was of a different kind. When I bought my house, in the backyard is a palm tree that probably hasn't been taken care of years. It was my intention to have this "skirt" trimmed off long ago, but I never had the heart to take away what had become a bird 'sanctuary' of sorts. But I finally made a call, hired a local landscape company to come over and take care of it. Of course, it was my thought that it would be sometime during the week.... instead Tim called me and said "I can be there in an hour." Wow! service :)
They arrived with tools and ladders in hand, and began the process of removing all of this. However, it was much to thick to handle from the outside; they needed the climber to get up there. When he arrived with his special rope and spiked shoes, he shimmied up the tree with chainsaw flung over his shoulder, and began cutting a wide swath around the bottom of the skirt, turning it from 'knee length' to 'mini skirt' in short order!
It was quite the process to see this done, its amazing how much stays up in a palm tree, even after it dies. He told me it probably hadn't been trimmed in 6 years or so.
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