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BPB Bay Park Buzzy Tiki Socialite West Bay Park, San Diego, CA Joined: Apr 07, 2006 Posts: 3066	BPB Bay Park Buzzy Posted posted on Sun, Mar 4, 2007 1:22 PM On 2007-03-04 12:50, 4WDtiki wrote: Hey Koka, if you're talking about those two big logs, they are sitting on public land for anyone to snag. Or we MAY go out there Sunday, depending. This palm was taken down because it was diseased and was dying. If you bring it back to your house, you may infect the same types of palms on your property(or the neighbors) with it, if you have any, that is. Many companies do not work with these trees because of the cross contamination issues. The companies that do are usually very expensive, because new blades are used for each tree worked on. It is also necessary to sterilize the blades and saws constantly. The dust from cutting these transfers the diseases quite easily. In Solana Beach or Del Mar, it is actually illegal to cut one of these trees up and remove it. You are required to dig it up,crane it out, and haul it away in one piece on a flat bed. Last year, a tree service was complying with this ordinance and the crane lifting the tree out fell over. The tree service then had to hire the largest crane in California to come down from LA and pick up the fallen crane and the tree. I think they lost about $25,000 on that one tree. Point is, be careful with these trees if you go and get them and use them around your trees... Hey Mieko, that is the same type of tree I have pieces of that you saw in my secret tree service lot stash a couple months back. Remember those big chunks we were checking out? Those are the same tree type, just lacking that pesky disease. A couple months back Lake surfer started a thread with a link about the palms in LA dying. Same type as this one. The problem in lA is that the city tree services for years cross contaminated all of their trees when working on them. The funny thing about that article is that they failed to mention how trees are doing on private property in LA...According to the same article that says no more palms in SoCal, the nursuries cannot keep the new trees in stock because they sell so many. Well, maybe there will be a day when there are no palms on city property, at least... Buzzy

On 2007-03-04 12:50, 4WDtiki wrote:
Hey Koka, if you're talking about those two big logs, they are sitting on public land for anyone to snag. Or we MAY go out there Sunday, depending.

This palm was taken down because it was diseased and was dying. If you bring it back to your house, you may infect the same types of palms on your property(or the neighbors) with it, if you have any, that is. Many companies do not work with these trees because of the cross contamination issues. The companies that do are usually very expensive, because new blades are used for each tree worked on. It is also necessary to sterilize the blades and saws constantly. The dust from cutting these transfers the diseases quite easily. In Solana Beach or Del Mar, it is actually illegal to cut one of these trees up and remove it. You are required to dig it up,crane it out, and haul it away in one piece on a flat bed. Last year, a tree service was complying with this ordinance and the crane lifting the tree out fell over. The tree service then had to hire the largest crane in California to come down from LA and pick up the fallen crane and the tree. I think they lost about $25,000 on that one tree.
Point is, be careful with these trees if you go and get them and use them around your trees...

Hey Mieko, that is the same type of tree I have pieces of that you saw in my secret tree service lot stash a couple months back. Remember those big chunks we were checking out? Those are the same tree type, just lacking that pesky disease.

A couple months back Lake surfer started a thread with a link about the palms in LA dying. Same type as this one. The problem in lA is that the city tree services for years cross contaminated all of their trees when working on them. The funny thing about that article is that they failed to mention how trees are doing on private property in LA...According to the same article that says no more palms in SoCal, the nursuries cannot keep the new trees in stock because they sell so many. Well, maybe there will be a day when there are no palms on city property, at least...

Buzzy

Post #289591 by Bay Park Buzzy on Sun, Mar 4, 2007 1:22 PM