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PRUNING PALM TREES IN ELCHE

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The tall palm trees have to be pruned every year by these clever and acrobatic palmereros.As Elche has thousands of palms this is a BIG job!!!

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  • whats the name of the tool these guys use to prune the palms?? its not an axe, sort of spatule with a sharp edge??

  • Sorry for the delay,I have been trying to find out about the tools.The one he is using in the video is called a Corbillote and looks like a chopper with a tapered blade.the other tool is a Gumia which has a long handle and a curved blade.I only have the Spanish names.Rgs Ken

  • Well in this city of Elche they prune millions of palms like this every year and I have not heard of any accidents.Regards

  • That is really scary being up there in the tree that high!

  • Yes it looks dangerous but I suppose they are used to it.

  • You have a good point there but I suppose they have always done it like that and in many places it would be difficult to do it in any other way.regards

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  • love palm trees ! i want to too work in palm triming

  • Using spikes on a living tree  and removing green fronds are palm abuse!

    Not the work of a certified arborist!

  • My palmtree is a miserable three meters tall but triple this one in trunk radius. I'm pretty sure mine is older too (it's like 25 years). They rise fast if you prune them this way but they will never be very thick. I prune them as the leaves start to die and that's it.

  • @takenotes315 There will never be , because of its cold weather in winter the thing which such kind of trees can't afford and if it did , it grows so badly, giving poor product if it really survived.

  • @jeeperos se llama corvellot

  • @outofmytr33  The first palms look more like Phoenix dactylifera to me. Not that it matters, though, as far as the workers go, as both species have vicious spines.

  • Those are Phoenix caneriensis. The palms whose "skirts" can collapse are Washingtonias (robusta & filofera). Disease transmission can be greatly reduced by bleaching spurs and tools between trees.

    Palms are made of vascular bundles and as such are less likely to suffer fluid disruption from spur wounds than hardwoods.

    Not the best pruning techniques but by no means the worst either.

    Damn hard work on your lower back. Those boys will be in major pain at the end of the day.

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