Monkey Puzzle

[Midge]

Should imagine these are a ball ache to cut? Drove past one yesterday and got me wondering if anybody has any experience with this type of tree?

[silky fox]

Sharp and sticky

[kev7937]

Should imagine these are a ball ache to cut? Drove past one yesterday and got me wondering if anybody has any experience with this type of tree?

 

 

I reduced multi stemmed one once, not a biggie but it had been topped previously, used ladders to get in the canopy and wore a lot of clothing.

 

Didn't cut and hold much as I recall

[stihlmadasever]

Never done a chilean pine before,would it be that different from any other jaggy conifer??

Dunno!

[kev7937]

 

 

 

Beautiful. Think this was prob 5 or 6 years after I did it.

[Sandworks]

Only use old gear, everything will be covered in a sawdust resin....... Oh yeah leathers rather than chainsaw spec trousers and jacket..... Or better still sub it out..... And the timber is very heavy.......and then you have the headache of every turner for 50 miles on the scrounge🗣

[Marc Lewis]

Never done a chilean pine before,would it be that different from any other jaggy conifer??

Dunno!

 

Try it to believe it. On top of that, i had to throw away my t shirt and jumper, ruined from the sap and spikes

[treequip]

Never done a chilean pine before,would it be that different from any other jaggy conifer??

Dunno!

 

Do not under estimate them

 

They are the worst things to work on, there is nothing on them that's not excessively sharp, scratchy, sticky or all three, handle the brash with thick gloves or a pitchfork because even the fronds have sharp edges that will slice you up.

[Ian C]

Do not under estimate them

 

They are the worst things to work on, there is nothing on them that's not excessively sharp, scratchy, sticky or all three, handle the brash with thick gloves or a pitchfork because even the fronds have sharp edges that will slice you up.

 

There right up there next to Hawthorn to work on treequip is spot on, dead or alive there horrible, charge plenty to even look at them!

[Stephen Blair]

the saw will cut them easy enough, they are just jaggy, very jaggy, real very jaggy, sticky and generally horrible in all ways possible!