How to cut down a palm tree?
Palm tree is guessed at 20 feet tall. In close proximity to house (5-8feet) and neighboring fences(5-8feet). I need to get rid of it and I want to do it myself with help from neighbors//friends. Where do we start and how do we finish? Should we cut off all of the fans before we attempt anything? What should we use to get the main trunk out? What do we do to the roots; do we grind or do we remove?
I just had one removed because I didn't want to, and it was approx the same height.
Two people, One with a chain saw, the other holding a rope that had been secured near the fronds, one cutting, one stabilizing pulling. 10 minutes the tree was down, cut to manageable lengths to load and carted away, and no mess, no damage.
Certainly you should enlist neighbors, and if the tree is to fall over a sidewalk or street access, the job should be accomplished asap.
Once it's down cut the FANS, and certainly cut the stump as low to ground level as possible. Grinding after, works, Digging is tedious and labor intensive, AND in some measure depends on the BREED of Palm. I've lived in FL for 36 years and have only one that spread like CRAB GRASS, a FISH TAIL,,,most others are more a TAP ROOT , similar to PINE, and can be cut or ground UNDER and that will kill them, though as they die you may have to FILL for a time as the trunk and roots decompose.
TREES in a general sense underground can take years to decompose, and you may have to monitor that,,,BUT once any seed pods and the tree are removed, it's unlikely you'll see "babies" sprouting.
Steven Wolf
Just my two "sense"
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