Post #226627 by Polynesiac on Thu, Apr 13, 2006 6:08 PM

About 5 months ago, I was walking by some tree trimmers that were taking down a canary palm on my way back from work. They were very efficient and had the tree down and ready to chop up in minutes. I approached and asked what they were going to do with the palm log and before I could explain why I wanted it, they said "you carve tikis? do you want the logs?" I said yes, but explained I had no way of getting it home and they said "where do you live? we'll drop it off!" Luckily I lived about 100 yards from where they were and it was only after they dropped off the logs that I realized just how huge and HEAVY they were.

They turned out to be slieghtly larger than 2 feet in diameter and cut into a 4 foot section and two 3.5 foot sections. At first I was bummed that I didn't specify a 6 foot section, but it's been over 5 months now and I can just barely roll them on my own. To add to all that, my carving area is 32 steps uphill from my driveway, so when I do start carving these I'll meet a lot of people again. I'm looking forward to it.

On a side note (no pictures unfortunately) a 40+ foot canary palm came down along paseo del mar here in 'pedro and when I went to check it out and grab some, the trimmers had chopped it up into 6 foot sections and stacked two trunks ontop of each other. when I walked up to them they were WAY over my head! they looked like more than 4 feet in diameter! I had to decline becuae not only would they not fit in my driveway, but I really am not set up to carve such hernia sized pieces!!!