- Location
- Hawaii
quipo
- Thread starter treesandsurf
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- Location
- Hawaii
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- Hawaii
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- CT
Damn! Nice shots and great work. I want to do tree work in Hawaii
- Location
- Bend, Oregon
Very nice Jon!! love those giant kapoks.
Worthaug
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- North Cakilaki
Good stuff, I wish roots and landscape were the only things to lower wood for.
- Location
- Hawaii
- Location
- Hawaii
- Location
- Hawaii
- Location
- Hawaii
robinia
Participating member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
Holy crap that's a big tree!
Is that a Quipo in your avatar?
Is that a Quipo in your avatar?
RopeShield
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
Can you can compare handsaw cutting tropical wood with temperate wood like Sugar Maple? Hard, soft, splinters, I imagine it breaks like a match. Just trying to get feel for the Tropical and live and dead wood.
- Location
- Springfield MO
Great stuff. Thanks for posting!
- Location
- Hawaii
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Can you can compare handsaw cutting tropical wood with temperate wood like Sugar Maple? Hard, soft, splinters, I imagine it breaks like a match. Just trying to get feel for the Tropical and live and dead wood.
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Earpods are pretty soft... hard to describe the difference but I would say temperate trees are more like a match and tropical trees are more like a rubber band if that makes sense
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The tree in my avatar is a monkeypod from moanalua gardens, same family as the earpods...
jp
Can you can compare handsaw cutting tropical wood with temperate wood like Sugar Maple? Hard, soft, splinters, I imagine it breaks like a match. Just trying to get feel for the Tropical and live and dead wood.
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Earpods are pretty soft... hard to describe the difference but I would say temperate trees are more like a match and tropical trees are more like a rubber band if that makes sense
The tree in my avatar is a monkeypod from moanalua gardens, same family as the earpods...
jp
robinia
Participating member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
Is one of them Enterolobium cyclocarpum?
- Location
- Gibsons BC
Very cool, you could charge admission to climb that first tree. Are these species long-lived?
TC
Participating member
Amazing tree! thanks for posting!
RopeShield
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
Hey thats a great analogy I can imagine that now. Thanks. I hope to experience that some day.
[/ QUOTE ]Earpods are pretty soft... hard to describe the difference but I would say temperate trees are more like a match and tropical trees are more like a rubber band if that makes sense
?
The tree in my avatar is a monkeypod from moanalua gardens, same family as the earpods...
jp
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[/ QUOTE ]Earpods are pretty soft... hard to describe the difference but I would say temperate trees are more like a match and tropical trees are more like a rubber band if that makes sense
The tree in my avatar is a monkeypod from moanalua gardens, same family as the earpods...
jp
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- Hawaii
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Very cool, you could charge admission to climb that first tree. Are these species long-lived?
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Gord these trees are long lived for the tropics maybe a hundred years or slightly more. I believe the earpod tree is 120 plus years old... a hundred years in the tropics for a plant is a long time.
The last photos were the earpod (enterolobium)and it feels like the tree is starting to senesce, as many large lateral branches are developing a lot of epicormic growth and over the last year we have removed three or four fairly decent sized branches, 10 - 16" diameter that were stone dead. The two branches I removed last week I was watching over the last six months hoping they would flush out but unfortunately not.
What shots you don't see is that we are extending the mulch ring to spread further to the dripline on some of these exceptional trees. That's the cool tree work
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jp
Very cool, you could charge admission to climb that first tree. Are these species long-lived?
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Gord these trees are long lived for the tropics maybe a hundred years or slightly more. I believe the earpod tree is 120 plus years old... a hundred years in the tropics for a plant is a long time.
The last photos were the earpod (enterolobium)and it feels like the tree is starting to senesce, as many large lateral branches are developing a lot of epicormic growth and over the last year we have removed three or four fairly decent sized branches, 10 - 16" diameter that were stone dead. The two branches I removed last week I was watching over the last six months hoping they would flush out but unfortunately not.
What shots you don't see is that we are extending the mulch ring to spread further to the dripline on some of these exceptional trees. That's the cool tree work
jp
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