Palm Tree Removal
Some Great Tips for Palm Tree Removal
Palm tree removal may be necessary on occasion, if you are changing the landscaping in your lawn, or if the roots are interfering in structures or pools. Or you may realize that you have a valuable tree that you wish to sell.
You will first need to find out the type of palm tree you will be moving. Go online or check in a book on palms. If you still don't know the species of palm tree you have, ask the staff at a nursery or landscaping service to help you. If they come out to check your tree and it's a species they use a lot, they might even buy the tree from you and move it themselves. Most people don't have rare palms in their yard, but you really won't know until you find out what kind it is.
If you have a plant relocator offer to help in your palm tree removal so he can buy it, that means he will probably make a profit when he resells it. Any extra costs in removing the tree will come from his profit margin, so he will be more interested in trees that are in closer to the perimeter of your yard. If the tree you want removed is way on the back of your lot by a pool, a landscape professional may move it for a fee, but he won't be as interested in reselling it. Experts will probably also not be interested in your palm tree removal if the tree is near a building or under overhead wires, unless they expect a hefty fee for the job.
If the species of palm you wish to remove doesn't have much of a market value, you will probably have to pay someone to remove it, especially if it's in a difficult location to access. The best way to get rid of such a palm may be to place an ad in the paper, “Palm Tree Free, you move”. Then the person who wants it can set up the digger, crane, trucks, etc.
There are some species worth enough to justify palm tree removal, and these may, in fact, pay for the removal themselves. A mature Canary Palm can carry a good price tag because they take so long to grow. Buyers and diggers look for a tree tall enough that you can walk under it without touching the leaves' spines. Ten to twenty feet is the size most sought after. Bigger trees are harder to dig up and move. These palms are often used around hotels and malls or in other commercial areas.
The Phoenix reclinata is another tree that has value to landscaping professionals and garden centers. This type can be dug up without too much of a problem, and it can be of extra value if it is a very tall tree.
The Date Palm has value as a plant to be dug and sold, but usually less than the Canary Palm or the Phoenix reclinata. This tree usually has one main trunk, and in this way is a more viable candidate for palm tree removal. This species has been overplanted in some areas, so it may fetch more in areas where it is not widely grown.