Oio Pine Removal

[treesandsurf]

Don't make fun of me

. Here's a vid of a small pine we took out a week ago. We were out of there shortly after lunch. Seems I keep forgetting the camera on the really sketchy jobs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp30JavidNU

jp

 

[boreality]

Is that Hawaii? I thought it was all jungle, bikinis and volcanoes.

You were kind of doing it right there. I'd never buck through the branches if I didn't have to. Even with a sharp saw it will dull it, be slower and cause unclean breaks. Or was that done to add the illusion of danger in the video?

 

[BenDraper]

You got er done! Good job. Whats up with that chainbreak?

 

[islandarb]

Way to go Jon, probably not many pines down there huh?

 

[Evan Sussman]

Hey Jon. I'm Evan, Is Oio another name for norfolk? I'd never heard that. I grew up over on Maui. Do you know Mark D. or Daniel E.?

 

[treesandsurf]

Hey Evan; no Oio is the name of the street where we removed the norfolk pine in Aina Haina.

I know Mark D. only from the competitions, and I think I met Daniel when he came over for the comp one year. I rarely make it to the outer islands unfortunately.

jp

 

[Bixler]

Another neat perspective from up top. Nice lowering, nice set up. If I was driving by I would defiantly stop and watch you guys work.

 

[bwktreeserv]

Very cool video!

Ben

 

[treesandsurf]

Bix if you were driving by I would come down from the tree and have a beer with you, well maybe a gatorade but you get the point. And then I'd let you go up and finish

jp

 

[jomoco]

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Hey Evan; no Oio is the name of the street where we removed the norfolk pine in Aina Haina.

I know Mark D. only from the competitions, and I think I met Daniel when he came over for the comp one year. I rarely make it to the outer islands unfortunately.

jp

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Was it a Norfolk or Cook Island pine?

Norfolk's have very straight laterals, whereas Cook's have slightly bowed droopy laterals.

The Aracauria family of trees have more subspecies than I thought.

Can't watch your vid on my IPad.

jomoco

 

[macrocarpa]

I enjoyed it!

 

[treesandsurf]

I don't know Jon the botanists go back and forth and even the most informed guys still argue amongst themselves about which is which. We call them Norfolks but they could just as well be Cook.

jp

 

[Bixler]

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Bix if you were driving by I would come down from the tree and have a beer with you, well maybe a gatorade but you get the point. And then I'd let you go up and finish

jp

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Sounds good to me JP. Is that the trailer you scored not too long ago... what a nice find, it's perfect.

Jomoco, why will some vids not play on the iPad? How do you fix that?

 

[jomoco]

The content owner of this video has not made it available for mobile devices.... or somethin to that affect.

jomoco

 

[Bixler]

Yes, I get the same message sometimes... sure would be nice to fix that for the future... tablets and mobile devices are very popular these days.

 

[treesandsurf]

Yeah that's the trailer. That was just a right time right place situation, the guy actually sold it to someone else before me but the other guy never came up with the money. Man was I stoked,

jp

 

[TrEeVeRdE]

Actually it's a easy fix Bixler, just don't use popular songs on your videos and you won't have that problem. For some songs, copyright issues won't let you play the videos on any mobile device, unless the viewer changed his settings on YOU TUBE to the desktop version. If the songs you choose are very popular, sometimes your videos can be blocked in certain countries and in USA as well.

 

[Evan Sussman]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Hey Evan; no Oio is the name of the street where we removed the norfolk pine in Aina Haina.

I know Mark D. only from the competitions, and I think I met Daniel when he came over for the comp one year. I rarely make it to the outer islands unfortunately.

jp

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Was it a Norfolk or Cook Island pine?

Norfolk's have very straight laterals, whereas Cook's have slightly bowed droopy laterals.

The Aracauria family of trees have more subspecies than I thought.

Can't watch your vid on my IPad.

jomoco

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On that note, I correct myself and say cook. Most of my life that I lived on Maui I thought those were norfolk pines, then when I first got into tree work I had it clarified. The cook pine is the one that usually looks symmetrical from a distance, it's also pretty common on Maui at least. The norfolk is much less common, almost rare in street visibility at least. It is quite irregular in form, think branch length and placement. I got the clarification from Ernie Resents who has a beautiful norfolk pine in his yard in Makawao.

"Many of the "Norfolk Island pines" growing in Hawaii, including their descendants growing as potted ornamentals on the U.S. mainland, are actually Cook pines, the two species having been confused when introduced."
-Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_heterophylla


norfolk - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Norfolk-Island-Pines.jpg
vs
cook - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Starr_070814-8035_Araucaria_columnaris.jpg

What do you know... the latin name is accurately descriptive...

 

[Evan Sussman]

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The Aracauria family of trees have more subspecies than I thought.



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I had no idea either. I like the bunya bunya pine, that is in the family. It's got an edible seed.

 

[jomoco]

I'm trying to germinate a bunya bunya seed right now. Nothing yet.

jomoco