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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post

    If you get a chainsaw you should use it above ground on the stump only. If you use it on the roots in the dirt you will blunt the chain tae fuck in 20 seconds. But I am sure Ootai won't mind! You should use a mattock or pick axe for hacking roots covered in dirt.

    If you use the chainsaw then replace the chain at the end of the job. The chains are only about $10 each if you replace it with a Chinese chain. Ootai probably won't even notice!

    If you are really keen you can resharpen your chain using a chain saw file. But I don't bother when a new chain is $10

    Looper you made 1 mistake you assumed I would let Mendip use the chainsaw, that ain't gonna happen.
    I would have also taken my pruning saw with me and suggested he use that instead because as someone said earlier palms are very fibrous and I think the pruning saw would work quite well.
    Mendip do you have a pruning saw? If you don't i would suggest a trip to Do-Home and buy one. They aren't expensive even the best are only 500B or so and a really cheap one 100B.
    Unlike the comments of a couple of arse wipes on here I know you are not a tight wad.
    Just make sure you update us all on how you eventually do it and the outcome.

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    Weapons of choice to make stump removal/ hole digging a pretty quick job with not too much effort.



    Another weapon for stump cut up and tree pruning, a bow saw. (I am pretty sure this is what ootai is referencing as a pruning saw)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stumpy View Post



    Another weapon for stump cut up and tree pruning, a bow saw. (I am pretty sure this is what ootai is referencing as a pruning saw)

    Stumpy
    A bow saw is a bow saw a pruning saw is a whole different thing.
    A pruning saw is for, wait for it, pruning!

    A bow saw cuts as you push it away from you/the handle whereas a pruning saw cuts when you pull it towards you/the handle.
    Also a bow saw is some times quite cumbersome if you are trying to fit it into the tree branches whereas a pruning saw is not.
    A pruning saw also allows you to easily cut branches that you may not be able to reach and push a bow saw i.e. if your arm is fully extended to reach the branch how do you the push it further to cut but a pruning saw is pulled back so you are able to cut it easily.

    Anyway I don't want to be condescending but you should try a pruning saw if you don't already have one.

    In the case of Mendip's palm I would think it will work quite well as by pulling it backwards it tends to ride over fibres rather than dig in to them and stall the saw.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    But it's too bladdy heavy to heave out of the hole
    If only one had a factotum to deal with these tasks.

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    or even a gardener...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ootai View Post
    P.S. As I have upgraded my phone I thought I would post a picture just to prove to myself that it is the file size creating them to take up more than a single screen. So now i feel right at home with all the others that post full sized large pictures.
    Welcome to the New World.

    Thanks for the clarification on Saws. I know we all have different terms. Why I asked.

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    Saw Wars ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shutree View Post
    factotum
    Learn a new thing here on TD everyday

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    Lot's of comments about this I see... I must have missed a few last night or maybe they arrived out of order?


    Quote Originally Posted by Reg Dingle View Post

    I thought it was illegal to work in your own house in Thailand without a work permit and deprive the local peasants a paltry wage?

    I think you hit the nail on the head earlier, he's not poor, he's just fukkin tight...
    Yeah well, if my father was still alive I could have got him round with his magic palm tree trunk grubbing saw axe thing while I put my feet up and had a cuppa.

    What's the going rate for using a pensioner for manual work? A free bus ride... no, at 78 he'll have his bus pass already!



    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post
    Must. Resist.
    Thank You!


    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    Jaysus, Mary and Joseph! I was sticking up for you!
    Yes, and appreciated! But the toe issue is still there...


    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    I assume you have a drill Mendip?
    Drill loads of holes around the circumference of the base until the trunk snaps free.
    Job done
    Two things... the stump would still be underground and I'm hoping to get back to work by March. Apart from that a great suggestion!


    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    Mattocks are brilliant for digging into hard ground and this is how I have dug up and then relocated 10 palm trees over the course of the past 10 months

    But I am sure Ootai won't mind!
    Ootai probably won't even notice!
    If you want to make it 11 in 11 months you can have this b@stard for free if you collect?

    And now Ootai is on to me... shouldn't have mentioned anything!


    Quote Originally Posted by Stumpy View Post
    Well some of us armchair experts have dug out many a stump and have dug many a hole so we speak from experience and are offering advice in hopes to make it easier for you ( and others).

    So was your gardener sitting in the shade by the pool watching you dig?
    I've dug a few holes in my time also!

    The gardener has been busy up his scaffolding performing pigeon calming measures for the past few days and I didn't want to disturb him. No way I'm going up there.

    And Shutree, as for calling him a factotum that ain't gonna happen. I have to check your post each time because that word just doesn't seem to committ to memory. Gardener it'll have to be!

    Quote Originally Posted by ootai View Post
    Looper you made 1 mistake you assumed I would let Mendip use the chainsaw, that ain't gonna happen.
    I would have also taken my pruning saw with me and suggested he use that instead because as someone said earlier palms are very fibrous and I think the pruning saw would work quite well.
    Why can't I have a go on your chainsaw Ootai?

    And yes, I have a good pruning saw. I considered it but went another way in the end. I've used a pruning saw previously for a similar job but found the blade kept getting stuck in a big diameter trunk.


    Anyway, before the job got underway I had the pleasure of waking to the stench of burning plastic rubbish at first light. I guess this is familiar to anyone living in Isaan, or maybe elsewhere in Thailand as well? Why can't they stick their rubbish in the bin?



    These neighbours have a laundry business, you can see the empty washing lines in their back garden. Anyway, once the washing lines are full and the wind is in the right direction I'm gonna have my own bonfire. Petty maybe, but the house stank this morning and it pissed me off

    And last night's full moon about to set.



    First job was to make the stump more manageable. I started early before it got too hot.

    And yes, no fancy, newfangled equipment... a good honest machete and a bit of elbow grease was my plan of attack. No painful trip to Do Home with the 'assistants' saying 'mai mee' to every query, even if there was a bladdy mattock embedded in their head. And no waiting days for a Lazada delivery and then discovering it had been cancelled because Kerry couldn't find our house again.

    I went to the workshop and got the machete... simple as that.



    Dan certainly approved, although I had to get her to stand back a bit. She's a bit old and kept wandering into the line of fire.



    And there... the first part of the job easily finished.



    The root ball of the stump weighed a bladdy ton and I had to whittle it down a bit to get it below hernia inducing proportions. The dogs sensed this was a pretty shitty job so came along to watch.



    Again, the trusty machete was selected, as approved by Anna!



    The great thing about being a geologist is that you learn to think geologically. Even the tallest mountain will eventually be reduced to nothing by weathering and erosion, all you need is time. And in this fukking place, time is one thing I have in abundance.

    So I switched off and just started hacking away.



    The ever-faithful Dan hung about to keep my moral up. Incidentally, those laterite boulders she's standing next to mark her brother Den's grave.



    And of course after a concerted effort and some bad language I eventually whittled the root ball down small enough to be man-handled out of the hole, with no hernia. The dogs immediately lost interest in the operation and fukked off.



    On their departure, first Yogi...



    ... and the Max showed their appreciation for my hard work.



    But job done!



    I made tidy using the good, honest no-nonsense hoe.



    And the dogs now had to look for their entertainment elsewhere.



    And there endeth the lesson in palm tree stump removal using nothing but basic Isaan tools combined with a bit of hard work.

    This was strangely satisfying but of course every silver lining has a cloud... by doing such a sterling, quick and efficient job my reward was just to go back to sanding the fence earlier than planned.

    But not before having a 10 minute cuddle with Anna!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    And there endeth the lesson in palm tree stump removal using nothing but basic Isaan tools combined with a bit of hard work.
    Nice Job Mendy. And yes it got done but some prefer to work a bit smarter versus harder.

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    ^ Yeah well, the downfall of youngsters these days.

    You know what they say, 'Work harder, get fitter!'

    Now where's my scythe, the lawn needs mowing...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Now where's my scythe, the lawn needs mowing...


    Btw. Occasionally a neighbor burns their plastic. I get Fn pissed off and I stand up and I let them know about it. One time they started burning shit in the back corner fence area and the wind was blowing our way. I got my hose and jumped up on the fence and doused it until it was out with water. When the guy came out, I said Mai Dee and he walked away.

    FFS. We have 2 times weekly garbage pick up. It's just assnine

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    Its a Thailand wide problem, it'll only be solved when plastics are banned.

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    Well looks like I have assimilated too well as I burn my garbage including the plastic that is not recyclable.
    Unlike Mendip and Stumpy I don't live in a Hi So area that has a regular garbage pick up service so I burn it.
    I do however dig a pit and burn it all in there usually using quite a bit of diesel as an accelerant.
    I wouldn't mind taking to a dump myself if they had one around here but they don't see the need as everyone keeps their junk around their house and burns whatever other rubbish they can.

    Mendip
    I can't believe the way you do stuff sometimes, talk about doing it the hard way.
    When I think of you being a geologist the expression "dumb as a box of rocks" comes to mind when you do this sort of shit.

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    Mad dogs and Englishmen, what's so hard to understand Oots

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Yeah well, if my father was still alive I could have got him round with his magic palm tree trunk grubbing saw axe thing while I put my feet up and had a cuppa.

    What's the going rate for using a pensioner for manual work? A

    He did all my decorating here too and some fencing bless him, he enjoys gardening and drinking beer, so I pay him in Carling Black Label and crumpets now I can no longer get him on the bus before 9am

    I don't think of him as a pensioner, more an aging hands-off-scrotum Factotum





    Quote Originally Posted by ootai View Post
    When I think of you being a geologist the expression "dumb as a box of rocks" comes to mind when you do this sort of shit.
    Small wonder he flunked Archeology at uni...
    Even these fossils he must dig up in his rock studying job would show the daft fukker Neanderthal man owned a larger collection of appropriate tools... and self made too.


    Somethings gone wrong with evolution somewhere. This Guy is the fukkin Missing Link.


    He's just flown back from the UK but does the tightwad who ponced lodgings at his mother's, pop into Toolstation and bring any tools back?

    No he brings back 30kgs of fukkin peas and 2 pairs of Festive crotchless underpants

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reg Dingle View Post
    ... does the tightwad ... pop into Toolstation and bring any tools back?

    No he brings back 30kgs of fukkin peas and 2 pairs of Festive crotchless underpants

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    ^^ They weren't crotchless.

    You think I'm some kind of freak?

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    So no ones Willy pops out of that flap where it says Merry Christmas then?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    You think I'm some kind of freak?
    Shall we have a Poll?





























    Just ribbin' ya Mate

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    ^^ Sadly, no.

    I've missed the festive window now but will try my luck again next year!

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    Exhibit B



    The only tool you had on your mind at Christmas.... was the "gardener"s.

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    ^ Have you really got nothing better to do?

    Mind you, neither did I this Christmas... those (fully-crotched) beauties went unworn.

    It'll be different next year!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Have you really got nothing better to do?
    No

    Day off today and nursing a hangover.

    It's too fukkin cold outside here to be thinking of any gardening.

    Do you have a webcam where I could watch you at work instead? I find it kind of therapeutic.
    Gardening of course, none of that Cyrille malarkey.

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    ^ Tomorrow is just sanding the pool fence and maybe the start of the undercoat.

    It'd be pretty boring to be honest. Does Birmingham have nothing better to offer?

    Teach your daughter some northern culture... take her to Wetherspoons maybe?

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