Palmero – Palm Tree Trimmer
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Just before the summer starts in the Desert Resorts, the palm trees need to be trimmed. If they are not trimmed then in September the streets below and swimming pools are covered with palm pits. Bad for the pool filter and pedestrians. The trees are still trimmed the old fashioned way: by hand. Palmeros, palm tree trimmers, will trim the trees with sickle and power saw.
Job requirements for a Palmero: No acrophobia, nerves of steel, also willing and able to work in 115 degree weather.
Tags: Coachella Valley, People
Posted in Documentaries and Palmero 8 months, 3 weeks ago at 10:06 am. 4 comments
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I enjoyed the photojournalism. Happy to do it vicariously! Karol
Great shots Hans! When I was in California I had rats in one of mine and lots of dead fronds hanging down. Luckily it wasn’t a tall tree, I just swung on them til they fell
The rats moved out and my landlord grumbled about having to rent a big dumpster to get rid of it.
What, you decided not to climb up to take a ‘palmero’s-eye’ view? I’m astonished! *grin* Not work I’d care to attempt at 72 degrees with a nice breeze, let alone in direct sun at 115. When it gets into those temps around here I go hide on the concrete slab floor of the back room.
When I was a kid in SoCal we had one of the thick, squat palms with very dense fronds beginning probably not more than 10 or 12 feet off the ground. The entire tree was like steps, where the fronds had come off in years past, so we had snakes in the tree most years. Strange thing, watching a snake climb the tree.
I enjoyed your article on the trimmers!
Cheers,
pete
Well Pete, I was going to but my wife told me not to. And as you know husbands always listen to their wifes as long as they agree.