After that you will need extra height, like a step ladder, scaffold, etc. I have way too many palms but for only ocassional sawing off a frond, seed stalk, here and there.įinally, my direct answer to your question is that the Polan saw you are considering should work great as long as it has enough length to reach the fronds. I'm not a weak person, but after a while all this hand sawing would wear me down. Sometimes the saw blade would get pinched in the petiole of the frond and I'd have a devil of a time getting it unstuck. These issues just compounded and exacerbated the riciprocal arms-power sawing motion. But one trade off to taping an extension pole to the other was greater flexing of the poles (loss of firm control), plus the addtional leverage factor multiplied by the extra length. This helped for about a year or two, but my palms kept growing higher. Once this pole wasn't long enough to reach higher fronds I took a section from my other pole saw and used duct tape to make the bottom pole section about 4 feet longer. I think mine are about 14'-15' feet in overall length. I used to use (and still do on ocassion) the regular two-piece fiberglass pole saw (I have two of them). B&G purposely did this so buyers of their saw could lengthen them, I guess for safety reasons, plus additional wiring length that would draw more current from the battery. I borrowed a family member's intermediate pole section (they had an identical B&D pole saw) and it won't fit the attachment sockets. One day I got the idea of maybe buying another intermediate pole section so that I could make my saw's overall length 3 feet longer. ![]() I also like not having the inconvenience of a cord that can get in the way, tangled, trip over, etc. ![]() Otherwise, I would have to cart a portable generator around to power an electrical operated saw. Hence, I have a palm tree trimmer come in once a year with his bucket truck to trim all palms I can't safely and easily access.īecause most of my tall palms are well away from a permanent electric source, I like the 18V battery operated pole saw. I also use an 8 feet step ladder to get another 4 feet of extra height, but even that isn't enough for some palms (and it's far more dangerous). I can reach up to about 15' - 16' in height with my pole saw, but that's not near high enough to access most fronds. It can be used with just two sections by removing the 3 feet long intermediate pole. The overall length of the saw is 9 feet and comprises three sections. I have a battery operated Black & Decker pole chain saw (8" bar) that I use to cut accessible fronds, etc. Further, I have lots of regular trees that require trimming of dead branches, low branches, etc. I also have a hybrid livistona that now is getting borderline tall to cut the lower most fronds easily. ![]() Do these work well for trimming heavy duty fan palm fronds?Ĭutting off dead palm fronds, seed stalks, hard, dead spathe, etc., from tall palms is a big problem for me now, mainly on my tall queen palms. I found an 8' Poulan electric chain saw pruner at Lowe's. Now that one of my filibustas has a 16' trunk, I'm having a hard time sawing off the dead fronds.
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