SuckerFree
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I am curious to know if there have been any new developments in the area of palm skinning, or are we destined to use knives for eternity? If anyone has any kind of insightful information I'm all ears! :monkey:
Developments in Palm Skinning
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Tree Machine
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Do palms have skin?
Sucker-free, maybe you could drop the regional slang an ask a proper question directed at a professional community.
Sucker-free, maybe you could drop the regional slang an ask a proper question directed at a professional community.
Tree Machine
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By the way, welcome to the site.
Knives are used in chippers, not in trees (generally). Things with blades get used in palms, they're called saws; hand saws, chain saws. Are you using a machete?
Seriously, though. What are you asking? Removing the boot? Bringing up the fronds? Peeling back the core to harvest palmito? I've done a fair number of palms over the years, but have no idea what you're asking.
Knives are used in chippers, not in trees (generally). Things with blades get used in palms, they're called saws; hand saws, chain saws. Are you using a machete?
Seriously, though. What are you asking? Removing the boot? Bringing up the fronds? Peeling back the core to harvest palmito? I've done a fair number of palms over the years, but have no idea what you're asking.
SuckerFree
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thanks for nothing.
Tree Machine, you obviouosly are going to be no help to me here, but thanks for making a newbie feel welcome to this site. For the record, I work in palms on a weekly basis and the term skinning is pretty much the standard for removing the remains of palm fronds after they have been pruned. Don't worry though, they hip new slang will make its way to Indianapolis in the next few years I'm sure.
Tree Machine, you obviouosly are going to be no help to me here, but thanks for making a newbie feel welcome to this site. For the record, I work in palms on a weekly basis and the term skinning is pretty much the standard for removing the remains of palm fronds after they have been pruned. Don't worry though, they hip new slang will make its way to Indianapolis in the next few years I'm sure.
beastmaster
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If you don't have experience doing palms You probably don't understand Sucker Free. I've skinned a lot of palms, and use a carpet knife or box cutter. Thats how its done for the most part. Its kind of a pain in the rear, especially when the skin is really tight.
Palms don't really have skin, some species of palm when you cut off the fronds, you leave, for lack of the propper word, skin.
Washingtonias are the species that come to mind for me. The "skin", can make it dangerous to climb. If loose it can cause you to slide down the palm as it accordion down the trunk.
I been told,(but haven't seen) theres a machine that skins palms that is fast and easy. I've seen palm that were supposedly done like this and they look pretty good.
My self I bid skinning jobs so high in hopes I don't get them. Beast
Palms don't really have skin, some species of palm when you cut off the fronds, you leave, for lack of the propper word, skin.
Washingtonias are the species that come to mind for me. The "skin", can make it dangerous to climb. If loose it can cause you to slide down the palm as it accordion down the trunk.
I been told,(but haven't seen) theres a machine that skins palms that is fast and easy. I've seen palm that were supposedly done like this and they look pretty good.
My self I bid skinning jobs so high in hopes I don't get them. Beast
Tree Machine
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I work in south Florida, too. The only reason I entered in here is to learn more .
Removing the lower boot (i.e. 'skinning') is laborious and filthy. I find it to be no fun at all.
Last year, my Sister, who always has me prune her palms in the spring as a birthday present, and again in the fall, saw a TV ad for an oscillation tool called a Fein Multimaster. My Dad also has palms. My mom, too, at her place and my wife's Mom at hers. I am expected to be 'the treeguy' even on vacation and have a full set of gear I keep down in Sarasota.
The tool was shown to be able to do a wide array of tasks. She was showing me a part of that presentation where the oscillating blade was pressed directly into a 2x4 and cut it off flush with the floor in like 2 seconds. She stopped the video right there and said "Would this work on my palms."
Knowing that she's a tool freak, I know she would find other uses for this tool and put it on loan to my Dad for the remodeling work he does and on the boat, it made sense for me to buy her one. Then, in a completely self-serving interest, I could use it to trim and skin her palms, faster, more accurately and without a chainsaw.
I had envisioned something akin to shearing a sheep. You can skin and cut fronds with one hand and take a picture with the other. This I know.
Sorry you feel I am obviously going to be no help here, sucker-free.
Like most things in the realm of consciousness, if you believe it, then it is.
Does incorporating this tool qualify as a 'development in palm skinning'?
david miller
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everything from removing the inflorecence and bracts and fronds can be done with a chain saw. The crownshaft is the sheath that wraps around the trunk and is part of the frond like on royals palms you can carefully run your saw around the base to free it most trimmers here in s FL over trim palm it like there getting payed by the pound
SuckerFree
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I have seen some prototype specs for machinery that doesn't require the climber to do the work by hand, I was mostly curious to see whether or not that kind of technology had become available. Who ever figures it out is going to be on easy street.
