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Digging up large Sagos....

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:59 am
by vincentmolino

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:04 am
by vincentmolino
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A Little Root Pruning
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Since my hoist is still at the original site I had to use my house to get Sago #1 off my truck
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about 5$ worth of scrap wood I threw together
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All I had was shells from my driveway
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Silt/sugar sand, i usually like to wash all the clay out of it but it was 10pm and was tired as hell
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Palm #2, Much easier/smaller.
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Loaded with all tools
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:14 am
by hardyjim
WOW!


That was quite a job!

Well done!

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:31 am
by TimMAz6
very nice find for FREE! Yea....that 2nd sago is real small! :lol:

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:03 am
by vincentmolino
they are gonna be 2 ft higher in planters lol

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:04 pm
by seedscanada
Unbelievable. Gotta showmy wife this.
Adam

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:14 pm
by TerdalFarm
Love it!
Note to self: buy big truck.....

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:07 am
by vincentmolino
I use to have a 95 f-450 with a powerstroke and 2001 gmc top kick to haul my t-300 bobcat but the economy claimed all those in 2007. Would like to get those things again little by little

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:19 am
by vincentmolino
seemed to work well for the pyramids


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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:00 am
by hardyjim
They may have had an older model truck back then-only 1 horsepower :shock:

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:39 am
by TerdalFarm
Economy bad here, too--lost the truck and farm. Have the 1 horsepower "truck" out in a pasture, though!
He never nibbled my sago palms, smart thing.
I'll have a diesel truck (Chevy k2500, '02) soon as my tax refund hits. Then I can haul some big plants! :lol:

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:27 am
by sidpook
Hey Vinny...Saw you on the bananas.org forum too. Your place is real nice. Love N'awlins....Love sagos too. I cut a hunk of offshoot last year on my large one. It is still alive but hasn't grown much...anyone know how long it takes for the "pups" to start to grow once they are cut from the mother plant?

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:28 am
by vincentmolino
i grew up in Chatham, NJ, where are you?

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:00 am
by sidpook
vincentmolino wrote:i grew up in Chatham, NJ, where are you?
Audubon (close to Cherry Hill)

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:52 pm
by Jubaea
sidpook wrote:Hey Vinny...Saw you on the bananas.org forum too. Your place is real nice. Love N'awlins....Love sagos too. I cut a hunk of offshoot last year on my large one. It is still alive but hasn't grown much...anyone know how long it takes for the "pups" to start to grow once they are cut from the mother plant?
I have had some that I rooted that took a year or so to finally flush out some new leaves. Do you know if it has rooted?

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:47 pm
by sidpook
Not sure if it has rooted, but the two small "leaves" it started with are large and green now, it looks likeit is alive but no real changes over the winter even in a sunny spot. When i cut it from the original plan i got a good 2 cm hunk of the original plant, at present the two "leaves" are about 4 inches each in ht.

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:51 pm
by sidpook
Great pics, Vinny...Was unable to view pics at work today. Nice pooch too!!!!

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:39 am
by vincentmolino
washing the clay out of my sugar sand/silt
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final resting spot minus a few inches and leveling
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 3:56 am
by sidpook
Looks great. I'l stop by and check them out next trip down.

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 6:17 am
by vincentmolino
no problem, the only thing I ask is to bring some gooseberries in July, I miss them!, i tried to bring a bush on a plane and the summer here fried it.

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 6:26 am
by sidpook
vincentmolino wrote:no problem, the only thing I ask is to bring some gooseberries in July, I miss them!, i tried to bring a bush on a plane and the summer here fried it.
Right, I believe that. Every time I visit friends in CA they ask me to bring Scrapple...Yuck!!

Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 2:37 pm
by lucky1
Vinny, wow.
Gotta show H those pics ... our area is drier than a popcorn fart (oops sorry :oops: ), so it's really cool to see a house on stilts at water's edge :shock:

OK now the sagos....WHAT A SCORE!!!!!! :D :D :D

And what a huge job, love the improv hoist.
Nice carpentry job on those planters too...maybe put casters on 'em to tow behind your truck if you move again. :lol:

Mike, what's Scrapple?

Barb

Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 4:41 pm
by sidpook
lucky1 wrote:Vinny, wow.
Gotta show H those pics ... our area is drier than a popcorn fart (oops sorry :oops: ), so it's really cool to see a house on stilts at water's edge :shock:

OK now the sagos....WHAT A SCORE!!!!!! :D :D :D

And what a huge job, love the improv hoist.
Nice carpentry job on those planters too...maybe put casters on 'em to tow behind your truck if you move again. :lol:

Mike, what's Scrapple?

Barb
Hey Barb, hope you are well. Scrapple is an east coast Pennsylvania Dutch "delicacy". Basically a greasy fried mush of pork scraps and pork ends and trimmings.... Too greasyfor me...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 5:49 pm
by sidpook
Vinny,
Your weather stickr says slidell, , are you out by the train tracks that cross the lake??

Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 6:50 pm
by lucky1
Hey Barb, hope you are well. Scrapple is an east coast Pennsylvania Dutch "delicacy". Basically a greasy fried mush of pork scraps and pork ends and trimmings.... Too greasyfor me..
Hey Mike, yup, just a bum new computer :evil:

Sheesh, the way you describe scrapple...I'm opting for toast ... to soak up the fat. Yuk.

:wink:

Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 5:29 am
by vincentmolino
sidpook wrote:Vinny,
Your weather stickr says slidell, , are you out by the train tracks that cross the lake??
yup, well a mile away from that.....and a mile north on hwy 11 bridge, on a channel to the lake

Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:34 am
by sidpook
vincentmolino wrote:
sidpook wrote:Vinny,
Your weather stickr says slidell, , are you out by the train tracks that cross the lake??
yup, well a mile away from that.....and a mile north on hwy 11 bridge, on a channel to the lake

Funny, I was at Michael's restaurant in Slidell recently, probably out that way.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:36 am
by vincentmolino
what r u doing down here?

Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:38 am
by sidpook
vincentmolino wrote:what r u doing down here?
We come down every spring, not there now, was there in MArch for St. Pats...still feeling it!!!!