Palm pruning Dominican Republic style.

[Mark Bolam]

[Bombadil]

Special tree climbing wellies? Wow!

[Mark Bolam]

I am bringing a couple of pairs back to cope with our October-April period.

[peds]

You can’t argue with results. 

[Mark Bolam]

Proper skills alright.

You should see they hedges they trimmed with machetes - immaculate.

 

Also whacking the tops off fresh cocos they knocked down so hotel guests could have a drink!

[tree-fancier123]

only trouble is no way to bail out quick at the top, say he messes up and gashes an artery - don't tell me he never risks it without a rescue climber, or at least a letter to his loved ones

[peds]

35 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Proper skills alright.

You should see they hedges they trimmed with machetes - immaculate.

 

Also whacking the tops off fresh cocos they knocked down so hotel guests could have a drink!

 

I was on a tiny little island off Nicaragua a while back, the smaller of the two Corn Islands. I was given two lobster tails by a fisherman, I needed some coconuts to cook them with. Another fella shimmied up a tree and hacked one down. Cooked the flesh of both lobster and coconut with chilli, herbs, and lime. Made grog with rum and the coconut water. It rained.

 

Edit: on this beach right here, Cocal Beach, Little Corn Island. I resolved there and then that I was going to get a machete when I found the right one, but the only ones I found for sale were thin, floppy, flimsy, things. I decided that you'd probably have to make one. That was in 2009. I still don't have my machete.

 

 

What could you make a decent machete from, I wonder?

Edited June 3 by peds

[sime42]

4 hours ago, peds said:

 

I was on a tiny little island off Nicaragua a while back, the smaller of the two Corn Islands. I was given two lobster tails by a fisherman, I needed some coconuts to cook them with. Another fella shimmied up a tree and hacked one down. Cooked the flesh of both lobster and coconut with chilli, herbs, and lime. Made grog with rum and the coconut water. It rained.

 

Edit: on this beach right here, Cocal Beach, Little Corn Island. I resolved there and then that I was going to get a machete when I found the right one, but the only ones I found for sale were thin, floppy, flimsy, things. I decided that you'd probably have to make one. That was in 2009. I still don't have my machete.

 

 

What could you make a decent machete from, I wonder?

 

Spring steel. Eg. From a leaf spring off a truck or an old car.

Edited June 4 by sime42

[sime42]

Alternatively, an easier option would be just to just buy a vintage one. All the old English tool makers made a lot that were exported to the colonies. Proper, heavy, quality.

[sime42]

Plan C. Hang around outside a primary school. You could probably swap one for a pinch o' weed!